Pippi Longstocking - Was She A Pioneer Homeschooler?

      Pippi Longstocking was a very gregarious children's book character who loved life.  She lived with a monkey and a horse, but without parents.
      I doubt if she had read the writings of John Holt, author of Growing Without Schooling, but she seems at times to be an unschooler.  She seems to have no curriculum but life.
     I picture her as becoming a writer when she grows up, because of all the imaginative stories she tells.  
     She does try school briefly but she doesn't fit in.
     She celebrates the joy of being alive.  When I was a little girl I wanted to grow up to be a combination of Pippi Longstocking, Bette Midler and Carmen Miranda.
     Like many homeschoolers, she has a collection of birds' eggs, shells and stones, among other things.  She bakes cookies - admittedly on the floor in her case, which is a bit unusual.  Calling herself a thing-searcher, she goes around collecting interesting things she finds.  She gives an anti-bullying lesson to some neighbourhood boys.
     Another style of homeschooling (other than unschooling) which Pippi seems to fit is travelling homeschooling.  She has travelled extensively with her father, a sea captain.  She also seems to follow the Charlotte Mason method of having nature walks.  She counts her gold coins - unschooling math.  A sailor on her father's ship taught her a little writing.
     But alas!  instead of wanting to be a good citizen when she grows up, Pippi wants to be a pirate and that's the wrong choice.  She needs love from good parents who stay home with her enough that she could make sense of life.
     But she teaches Tommy and Annika her neighbours about love.  She teaches them that you've got to love life or you're going to die.  They've got parents and they don't even seem to appreciate them.  The two neighbour children are very staid and Pippi loosens them up a little.  I hope that you will be good parents when you grow up.
     I like this book.