Most Popular Books by Ulf Nilsson

"One summer''s day we started a business called Funerals Ltd., to help all the poor dead animals in the world. Esther did the digging, I wrote the poems, and Esther''s little brother, Puttie, cried." Early readers will love the dry humor and wonderfully rounded story of All the Dear Little Animals. Nilsson perfectly captures the child''s perspective, balancing compassion and humor. This is a very funny story about a topic that touches all of us.

The final story in this big-hearted series takes on the most important case ever investigated in Detective Gordon''s forest—where is Buffy''s mother? Gordon faces his old nemesis, the fox, in an investigation that leads to the edges of the forest.

Country of Origin: Sweden A sweet, funny picture book about overcoming stage fright, being brave, and embracing your talents. My little brother thinks I''m the best singer in the world. But I can''t sing if there are too many people. When I was six, we were having a performance at school to celebrate spring. The teacher said it would be on a real stage, with proper spotlights. I told her I didn''t want to.

An extraordinarily warm and funny book about a big brother''s courage and inventiveness when he discovers his parents have been run over by a truck - or have they? ''It''s just you and me now,'' I said, ''alone in the world. But I''ll look after you very, very well. Everything will be just like normal.'' ''I think this has the same dry humour as All the Dear Little Animals. It is so true to childhood - the boy taking on responsibility and acting beyond his years - and is all about the power of imagination.'' Julia Marshall, publisher.

Little Sister Rabbit wants to have an adventure all by herself. She loves stamping in puddles, building boats and skimming stones without her clever big brother telling her what to do. But she''s having so much fun that she loses her way! Will Little Sister Rabbit be able to find her way home? From the award-winning Swedish children''s author, Ulf Nilsson, and one of Europe''s best-loved illustrators, Eva Eriksson, comes this charmingly illustrated tale of independence and sibling love. These classic Little Sister Rabbit stories are much-loved bestsellers in Sweden and can now be enjoyed by new generations in English. They are beautiful, full colour, hardback, gift editions with a cloth spine.

If Thumper had a sister she�d be as daring and adventurous as Little Sister Rabbit.

An award-winning illustrated detective story set in a friendly forest and first in the acclaimed series for beginning readers. Detective Gordon—a mystery-solving toad who loves cake—has his very first case. Someone’s stealing nuts from the forest, and it’s up to Detective Gordon to catch the thief! Unfortunately, solving this crime means standing in the snow and waiting for a long time... If only he had an assistant—someone small, fast, and clever—to help solve this terrible case. Then Detective Gordon would be able to go back to doing what he’s best at: thinking, eating cakes, drinking tea, and stamping important papers. A perfect first chapter book for children aged five and up by one of Sweden’s top children’s writers. This much-loved junior fiction series is illustrated in full color throughout and packed full of character and humor. Winner of multiple awards and accolades, Detective Gordon is a fun whodunnit mystery series to read alone or aloud. Translated from the Swedish edition by Julia Marshall. Read all the Detective Gordon series: Detective Gordon: A Complicated Case Detective Gordon: A Case in Any Case Detective Gordon: A Case for Buffy Praise for Detective Gordon: The First Case: “KLA-DUNK! Another winner.” Kirkus Reviews, starred review “A must-have for chapter book collections.” School Library Journal, starred review “Full of warm humour and wisdom...with a feather-light touch.” Best Books of 2015, Horn Book “A wonderful choice for independent reading.” Booklist, starred review

Illustrated in full color and packed with character and humor, this is a new whodunnit mystery in the award-winning Detective Gordon series, fun to read alone or aloud. A Case with a Bang is the final book in the series of funny detective stories for early readers set in a friendly forest in which two determinedly fair police—retired-toad Gordon and the indefatigable mouse Buffy—solve the mystery and stop regularly to eat cake. Night brings a humming, scraping sound in the woods. Someone has wrecked the badger''s trash can. Later, three large creatures are spotted up on the mountain. Detective Buffy discovers this seemingly small case really is a dangerous mystery—she comes back from her first investigation flat as a gingerbread, rolled over by something huge and terrifying. Back at the station, retired Detective Gordon is training a new young police assistant, and the cakes have run out in the forest bakery! While all the animals cower at the police station, Buffy remembers Gordon’s stories about trolls. Is it possible they do exist? Taking Gordon’s advice about how everyone thinks differently, she finds a way to communicate with the giant creatures—perhaps not so terrifying after all. The book leaves readers with a memorable Gordon message: Everyone thinks differently, strangers are welcome, cakes for everybody! This final installment in the award-winning Detective Gordon series is a multi-layered philosophical story about good detective work involving all, kindness to newcomers and doing the right thing. Winner of multiple awards and accolades, Detective Gordon is a mystery series with depth—perfect for reading alone for emerging readers, wonderful for reading aloud together as a chapter book. Ulf Nilsson was a celebrated Swedish children’s writer, who wrote more than 100 books for all ages. He is the winner of numerous awards including the August Prize, the Astrid Lindgren Prize and the Swedish Academy’s Children’s Book Prize. His books have been translated into over a dozen languages and made into feature films, opera, radio, plays and other forms – even postage stamps. Gitte Spee is a renowned artist from the academy of fine art and design in the Netherlands and St Martins School of Art in London. A leading children’s book illustrator, she has also written numerous books, published and translated around the world. Translated from the Swedish edition by Julia Marshall. Read all the Detective Gordon series: Detective Gordon: The First Case Detective Gordon: A Complicated Case Detective Gordon: A Case in Any Case Detective Gordon: A Case for Buffy Praise for Detective Gordon: A Case with a Bang "[J]ust as charming, gentle, wry, and entertaining as the rest of the series and anything that was created by A.A. Milne or Kenneth Grahame."—Kirkus Reviews "Nilsson excels at writing imaginative, gently amusing adventures, laced with unpretentious bits of wisdom."—Booklist "A warm-hearted tale that readers will want to immerse themselves in. Instant classics, this series would make for perfect classroom read-alouds and a just-right match for chapter book readers."—School Library Journal "Simple, colorful illustrations are adorable, the creatures and their evident emotions are captivating.”—Youth Services Book Review "Full of humour, wit and a dash of philosophical whimsy. . . once you''ve read one you''ll want to devour them all!"—Readings, Australia Praise for Detective Gordon: The First Case "KLA-DUNK! Another winner."—starred, Kirkus Reviews "A must-have for chapter book collections."—starred, School Library Journal "Full of warm humour and wisdom...with a feather-light touch."—Best Books of 2015, Horn Book "A wonderful choice for independent reading."—starred, Booklist

The detective lay in bed with his eyes closed. But he couldn''t sleep. He was thinking. He always thought best in bed. Especially with his eyes closed. Something is going on in the forest: one of the animals is saying nasty things about the other forest creatures. But no one dares make a statement to the police. Who is the culprit? Detective Gordon and his assistant Buffy must investigate! But this is a complicated case. The two police officers split the workload: Buffy questions the suspects, while Gordon stays in bed to think. Once the investigation is over, Detective Gordon plans to go fishing and eat all the cakes he wants to. And maybe then Buffy will be appointed Police Chief! But that won''t happen unless this case can be solved... Detective Gordon: A Complicated Case is a warm and humor-filled follow-up to the well-reviewed Detective Gordon: The First Case.

Found within the confines of these pages is a well-written monograph that provides an intuitive account of both the foundations of logic programming and simple programming techniques in Prolog. Only the most important areas of logic programming are considered. The book covers foundations, programming in logic, and alternative logic programming schemes. Within each of these sections are comprehensive explorations covering areas such as SLD-resolution, negation in logic programming, logic and databases, logic and expert systems, logic and grammars, logic programming and concurrency, logic programs with equality, and constraint logic programming. In addition, there are bibliographical notes and answers to selected exercises.

This story shows that the final stages of life need not be a ''difficult'' subject. A beautiful book that children love ? it is one of Sweden''s bestselling and most borrowed children''s books ?ÿGoodbye Mr Muffinÿwon the 2002 Swedish August Prize. Voted book of the year by a children''s poll in both the Swedish Book Jury Prize (2002) and the French Chronos Prize for Youth Literature (2008?2009)

Little Sister Rabbit is happy to be off on an adventure without her annoying older brother until she gets lost.

Spending most of a year with relatives on a farm in southern Sweden while his parents are busy building a new house in town, a young boy finds inner strengths and unexpected sources of entertainment.

Gordon is on vacation, and Buffy is the sole detective at the small police station in the forest. It is not easy for a police officer to be alone. Especially when there are strange noises outside the station at night. Buffy decides to seek out Gordon in his little cottage by the lake to ask for help. After all, two police think twice as well as one. Two police are twice as brave!

Johnny har tråkigt. En dag när han som vanligt sitter på gården och funderar kommer en halv tusenlapp nerseglande. Från Danskan som bor högst upp i hans hus. Hon lovar honom resten av tusenlappen om han hjälper henne att leta reda på hennes gode vän Fredric Blom som är försvunnen. Kanske har han blivit mördad ... ”Vem var Fredric Blom?I hans sovrum stod en enkel säng. Den var bäddad i all hast. På nattduksbordet låg en bok. ’Be your self’ hette den. Väckarklockan hade stannat.Jag blev mycket överraskad när jag gick vidare in i badrummet. Och ännu mer när jag kom in i vardagsrummet.Vem var Fredric Blom egentligen?” En halv tusenlapp är den första delen i Ulf Nilssons detektivserie med Johnny & Co. En spännande och äventyrlig bok för slukaråldern som tar upp lite ”vuxnare” ämnen. I sedvanlig Ulf Nilsson-anda är människorna goda men färgade av sina erfarenheter och som om det vore ett reportage får läsaren chansen att förstå dem och se om beskrivningen av dem stämmer.

"- Hela världen är full av döda djur, sa Ester, i varje buske ligger en fågel, en fjäril, en mus. Någon måste vara snäll och ta hand om dem. Någon måste offra sig och begrava alla dessa döda.- Vem, sa jag.- Vi, sa hon. Ester var alltid mycket modig. Själv var jag liten och rädd. Denna tråkiga sommardag startade vi en firma som hette Begravningar AB. Vi skulle göra världens bästa begravningar och hjälpa alla stackars döda djur som låg på jorden. Esters jobb var att gräva. Jag skulle skriva dikter. Och Esters lillebror Putte skulle gråta.""Alla döda små djur" är en underbar, varm och rolig berättelse av två av våra främsta bilderboksmakare. En blivande klassiker att njuta av länge. Läs mer om hur en musbegravning kan gå till här: http://www.bonniercarlsen.se/upload/bc_filer/musbegravning_web.pdf

Den svenske forfatter Ulf Nilsson udgav 1976 Dødens øjeblik på svensk; den kom i dansk oversættelse 1978. Bogen handler om en attenårig svenskers deltagelse i den Spanske Borgerkrig. Trods bogens spænding svælges der ikke i blodige optrin, men man får et godt overblik over krigsbegivenhederne og en nøgtern forklaring på krigens årsag og fascismens væsen. Gennem soldaternes reaktioner - deres angst og sammenhold og deres opfattelse af den rolle, hver enkelt spiller i krigens sammenhæng - får man en troværdig forklaring på, hvordan en krig i Spanien har kunnet samle frivillige fra hele Europa. Dødens øjeblik er baseret på autentiske oplevelser.

Älskad gris och bilderboksklassiker i ny utgåva! Härlig högläsning för hela familjen av Ulf Nilsson och Eva Eriksson. Om den lilla griskultingen Pellen som blir räddad av en flicka och en pojke. Barnen älskar Pellen från första stund. De syr en pyjamas med toppluva och bäddar åt honom i en docksäng. Han blir som deras lillebror. Men Pellen växer och växer. Till slut är han jättestor och får inte plats! Vad ska de göra? ULF NILSSON och EVA ERIKSSON är två av Sveriges mest älskade bilderboksskapare. De har gett oss oförglömliga klassiker som "Lilla syster Kanin", "Alla döda små djur" och "Ensam mullvad på en scen". I jubileumsboken ”Hej igen!” finns alla deras fantastiska bilderböcker samlade.

Danskan i Johnnys hus ber honom om hjälp att lösa ännu ett mysterium. Denna gång gäller det hennes gode vän Ulric Steen som just dött, men som inte verkar få ro i sin grav. "Telefonen ringde. Det ringde två signaler till. Jag närmade mig luren. En signal till. Jag lyfte luren och förde den till örat.Det var den döde som ringde. Jag hörde honom själv. Jag lade på luren och blundade. Allt snurrade för mig.Hur kunde han ringa?Danskan var säker på att det var just Ulric Steen som ringde. Och jag hade själv hört honom tala..." Den döde talar är den andra helt fristående delen i Ulf Nilssons detektivserie om Johnny & Co. En spännande och äventyrlig bok med driv i för slukaråldern, som tar upp ämnen med en existentiell botten, som till exempel "kan man leva utan andra människor?". I sedvanlig Ulf Nilsson-anda är människorna goda men färgade av sina erfarenheter.

Billedbog. De 5 berømte cirkusgrise er blevet for fede til at optræde. I stedet for skal de bo hos en bondemand, men de savner cirkus frygteligt

A South African boy encounters a troop of baboons invading his neighbor''s house and ends up taking care of a baby baboon that was left behind when the troop moved on. The boy looks after the baby baboon, and eventually helps it find its way back to its mother.