Who’s Bleeding?

In this book we meet once again the characters from Stina Wirsén’s books Who’s Cross? and Who´s Trousers? Everybody is supposed to play and build something together. There’s plenty of enthusiastic hammering and painting. But oh no – somebody hits themselves with the hammer, somebody else gets smacked in the face with a plank of wood and has a nosebleed, and how on earth did that foot get caught in there? Everybody needs to be comforted and bandaged up – those who’ve hurt themselves, and those who’ve hurt somebody else. Both things can be just as hard.

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.

Madelene Hovstadius

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

madelene.hovstadius@bonnierrights.se

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