Bye Bye, Cricket Karlsson!

Kristina Sigunsdotter & Ester Eriksson

Cricket Karlsson has turned thirteen and cannot wait for teenage life and adventure. Cricket and her best friend Nour perform a ritual to leave childhood behind, and then it’s off to Stockholm and aunt Fanny’s communal living. There, the world feels like it is at their feet, and their days are filled with art encounters, and the evenings with discoveries that gives them butterflies inside their chests.

This is the third book about Cricket Karlsson, who has taken readers by storm. The first book, Cricket Karlsson’s Secrets, was number one on Dagens Nyheter’s critic list and won the August Award for best children’s book in 2020.

“Charming, funny, deceptibly deep” Gayle Forman, NY Times

“An emo version of Pippi Longstocking (…) A resouceful everyday hero for the 2020s“
DN

“I laugh and gasp through the reading (…) Kristina Sigunsdotter’s text in combination with Ester Eriksson’s equally daring and perfectly unreliable illustrations grabs hold of you from the first page and then it’s just a matter of keeping up with this dizzying, tough, fresh journey.” Expressen

“As a reader, you grow with Humlan, it’s an existential and melancholic story that lingersin your consciousness.”
BTJ

“The title sounds so gentle and amiable, but the content is something completely different. Humlan Hansson’s Secrets is one of the most unexpected stories of the year. You don’t exactly know what is true, but it doesn’t matter in this wonderful, hard, audacious story about Humlan, who is struggling to regain her status as Nour’s bestie, make Aunt Fanny happy again so she can leave the psychiatric hospital, and get her mother to stop sighing. Fantastic text and illustrations in perfect symbiosis! This is one of those titles that will hit some in the right spot. It’s liberating, dark and just wonderful.” Vi Läser

 

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