Emil in the Soup Tureen

I remember when I was eight I was bullied for liking Pippi Longstocking.  I loved the badly dubbed movies as well.  I picked this book as a reintroduction to Astrid Lindgren.  This was charming.  It's about a boy who gets his head stuck in a soup tureen, eats all of the sausages in food storage, and has other mischievous adventures.  There's no moral at all.  It is simply just having fun.  The Swedish Astrid Lindgren proves that there are more children's authors to read than just American and British ones.