A01=Frida Nilsson
adoption
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Age Group_Ages 7-9
Author_Frida Nilsson
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Swedish childrens book
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- ISBN 9781776574223
- Dimensions: 144 x 204mm
- Publication Date: 01 Aug 2022
- Publisher: Gecko Press
- Publication City/Country: NZ
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
- Age Group: Ages 7-9
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Jonna lives in an orphanage whose manager is strict and obsessed with cleanliness. Like all the other children, Jonna has only one dream: to be adopted by a well-dressed mother who smells of perfume. But one day, a beat-up old car pulls up. The door opens and out step two thick hairy legs with muddy boots, followed by a belly as round as a barrel, and finally, a head like an overgrown pear. It's a gorilla!
Surely the orphanage won't let a gorilla adopt a child. But, to Jonna's horror, the gorilla chooses her...
Jonna sleeps in a hammock, and in the evenings the gorilla reads Dickens in her worn armchair. It turns out Jonna and the gorilla have a lot in common. But just when they’ve started to get along, a man from the council threatens to send Jonna back to the orphanage.
The Ape Star is a heartwarming and unconventional chapter book about love, adoption, friendship, and seeing from different perspectives.
An animated adaption starring Stellan Skarsgård (Thor: Ragnarok, Mamma Mia) is now showing worldwide.
“Nilsson has a peculiar power to make you remember exactly what it was like to be small, fierce, disempowered and six.” The Times UK on Hattie
“A sparkling story” Kirkus Reviews on Hattie and Olaf
“The Ice Sea Pirates is a wild adventure with a huge heart…a beautiful book singing with hope and justice.” Sarah Driver of The Huntress
Frida Nilsson is a leading Swedish author who has been an August Prize nominee three times and won the Astrid Lindgren Prize in 2014. In 2017 she was selected as one of Europe's best emerging writers for young people through the Hay Festival's Aarhus 39. Her books have been translated throughout Europe and nominated for the prestigious Youth Literature Prize in Germany and literary awards throughout Europe.
