Who’s There?
Who’s There?
Stina Wirsén, illustrated by Stina WirsénStina Wirsén’s Who? characters have grown up and have children of their own. Here we meet the brilliant siblings
Mjau and Pip and their family. But who is in the family? And who isn’t? Mjau and Pip have always been siblings. Before they were born, they lay in separate eggs and were waiting to hatch. There was a third egg also waiting. But it didn’t hatch. It was empty. There was no little kid in that egg.
‘Tell me again about how it was when we would hatch!’ ask Mjau and Pip their parents Yellow Cat and Duva. ‘Tell me about Duna!’ And then the parents tell about Pip and Mjau and the egg that was empty.
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.
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