Alfie Atkins and His Secret Friend

Alfie Atkins or Alfons Åberg is a deeply loved boy in Sweden, you will probably never enter any childs room there that doesn't have Alfie in the bookshelf. These books are about the very ordinary and not so goodlooking boy and his experiences of everyday life. This book descibes very well how a child experiences the world and how he handles the problems that he sees in it. It is nice to see books about ordinary kids that don't look like handsome superheros with special forces. Does any of your kids have superforces? Mine don't! They are more like Alfie, and I want them to feel good about beeing themselves not beeing superhumans, therfore I read Alfie for them. And for you that wonders where Alfies mum is I can tell you that she never existed and was never planned for! Alfie have existed in over 20 years and the illustrator still keeps the pichures in good 70'ies style, keep up the good work!