I usually preferred other books by Astrid Lindgren (and believe me, I've read them all ;)) to Pippi, so I don't remember those books as well as the others.

I think I read some of those... didn't she write about a group of kids that lived in a village, and were the only children in town? I remember liking them, even if one of the kids DID say "damn it" all the time. I think one of the character's names was "Lotta."