Pippi Longstocking Celebrates 80 Years & Sutton Foster Voices the Audiobook of the Classic Series
Tony Award-winning actress Sutton Foster.
Tony Award-winning actress Sutton Foster (Once Upon a Mattress, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Younger) will narrate three of Astrid Lindgren’s classic Pippi Longstocking audiobooks (Listening Library; on sale March 4, 2025) as part of a yearlong celebration of Pippi’s 80th birthday!
Sutton Foster is a two-time Tony Award-winning actress best known for her work on Broadway and as the lead of Darren Star and TV Land’s comedy-drama Younger (2015-2021). Sutton most recently starred as Princess Winnifred in Once Upon a Mattress alongside Michael Urie at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles following a successful Broadway run and record-breaking New York City Center’s Encores! production. Sutton embodies Pippi’s rebel girl spirit of kindness, courage, and strength. She brings new energy to this treasured story for new generations, drawing on her own experience, as an actress known for her warm and lively spirit. These new recordings will reignite Pippi nostalgia and raise a new generation of girls with Pippi’s Power.
Foster says, “Pippi is unlike anyone you’ve ever met before. She’s one of a kind, she marches to the beat of her own drum, she’s always game for adventure. She’s timeless, even though she’s eighty.”
“Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking is not just the strongest girl in the world. She is a symbol of freedom, strength, kindness, courage and justice. A rebel who uses her superpowers wisely and never abuses her power. She stands up against what is wrong. Thanks to that, she has changed the world for the better since 1945. Pippi has no hidden agenda; she is who she is – a fun and dynamic playmate to be inspired by. If you are very strong, you must also be very kind. Be more like Pippi, use your own Pippi power, and make the world a little better.”
Foster’s new recording of the beloved story of a strong, spunky girl and her hilarious adventures expands Listening Library’s storied history with Pippi Longstocking. Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking was first recorded and released on LP and narrated by actress Esther Benson in 1962. As a nostalgia easter egg, the opening and closing music of the new audiobooks is excerpted from the widely beloved 1970’s television series and film.
“Pippi’s enduring appeal is irresistible, and we’re thrilled to join in Pippi Longstocking’s 80th birthday with these delightful new recordings voiced by Sutton Foster,” says Amanda D’Acierno, President, Penguin Random House Audio, Global.