Review: `Becoming Astrid` details the hardscrabble beginnings of Pippi Longstocking`s creator
(LA Times NBA)

It´s tempting to believe the great writers of children´s literature are ageless souls forever in playtime mode, the world´s harsher realities kept at bay by a boundless imagination that´s the ultimate in noise-canceling technology. But the opposite is usually true: Author hardships are what actively...