Ulf Nilsson, trans. from the Swedish by Julia Marshall, illus. by Gitte Spee. Gecko Press USA (Lerner, dist.), $16.99 (96p) ISBN 978-1-927271-49-0
Written in the style of a classic noir, but with plenty of humor and silliness, Nilsson's novel opens with a squirrel running to the police station on a quiet snowy night—one of his caches of nuts has been stolen. As Detective Gordon, a toad,...
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Ulf Nilsson, Author, Eva Eriksson, Author, George Blecher, Translator Margaret K. McElderry Books $16 (128p) ISBN 978-0-689-50406-8
A young boy tells about the months he and his baby brother spend on the farm, under their kindly grandmother's care, while Mama and Papa build a house in town. Sights, sounds and smells (""He smelled a little funny, like the insides of old gloves'')
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Eriksson E. Nilsson, Author, Ulf Nilsson, Author, Chronicle Books, Author Chronicle Books $6.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-87701-610-6
In the first of these two additions to the Little Bunny series, the title character and Big Brother Rabbit go to the beach. She is blissful in the water--floating, playing and ignoring Big Brother, who has been watching over her. When she is left...
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Ulf Nilsson, trans. from the Swedish by Julia Marshall, illus. by Eva Eriksson. Gecko, $17.99 (72p) ISBN 978-1-776572-89-2
Nilsson and Eriksson bring a whiff of Scandinavian noir to this lengthy, small-format picture book. After an encounter with “something sad and tragic”—a dead bee—Esther buries the insect, then makes a pronouncement. “Someone unselfish must make sure
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