Who isn’t Well?

Original title: Vem är sjuk?

Series: Who?

Category: Children

Pub date: 06-08-2012

Format: 32 pages, 170x170 mm, color

Who isn’t Well?

Stina Wirsén

Teddy isn’t feeling well today. She has a tummy ache and doesn’t want to eat even though it’s her favourite food. Daddy rings the doctor and all of a sudden they have to rush off to the hospital. Teddy has appendicitis and has to have an operation! Everything goes well and when Teddy comes home she has a cool scar to show her friends.

Sold in over a million copies in Sweden alone, Stina Wirsén’s Who series deals with important and difficult topics with impressive simplicity and commitment for both young and old. With sensitivity and a genuine interest for the child’s perspective, Wirsén is masterful at finding the conflict and drama in everyday situations and guiding both the child and parent through all of life’s big emotions.

The stories are seemingly straight-forward, but never one to shy away from the complexity of life, the Who series tackles questions of grief, frustration, jealousy, loneliness, excitement, and joy, always written with warmth and humour. A Swedish Modern Family for children, the family constellations are a reflection of our time, with single mothers and fathers, stepparents, nuclear families and families of two moms or dads. Wirsén is known and beloved for writing the world as it is, rather than how we wish it would be, perfectly suited for the age group without sugar-coating reality.

Rights sold

Chinese (simp.): Petrel Publishing
Danish: Vild Maskine

Madelene Hovstadius

Literary Agent | Fiction & Non-Fiction, Childrens' & YA

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