Goodbye Mr Muffin

Ulf Nilsson

ISBN: 978-1-903458-36-5, £9.99
210 × 218mm

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Illustrated by Anna-Clara Tidholm

"This utterly enchanting little book about ... life, love and death."

Aftonbladet, Sweden

"I've had it good, better than most: a very clever and kind wife, a little blue house with its own letter box, six hairy little children ..."

In his youth, Mr. Muffin was a strong guinea pig who could carry a whole cucumber on his back. Now old, grey and tired, he looks back on his life. Then one Wednesday morning, he feels a sharp pain in his stomach ...

This picture book is for ages three and up. It tells the touching story about the death of a much-loved pet. Growing old, death rites, the question of the afterlife, all handled with warmth and gentle humour.

The story also shows that the final stages of life need not be a 'difficult' subject. A beautiful book that children love – it is one of Sweden's bestselling and most borrowed children's books in 2007 – Goodbye Mr Muffin won the 2002 Swedish August Prize. Voted book of the year by a children's poll in both the Swedish Book Jury Prize (2002) and the French Chronos Prize for Youth Literature (2008–2009)

Anna-Clara Tidholm is winner of numerous awards, including the August Prize, the Elsa Beskow Prize and the German Youth Literature Prize. Ulf Nilsson is a celebrated Swedish author, who has won the August and US Batchelder prizes.