My Flying Grandma
Nine-year-old Joel is not happy when his parents drops him off at his grandma’s while they leave for a business trip to Kuwait. Joel hardly knows his grandma, but she seems awfully boring: she only eats readymade soups and spends all her time playing solitaire on her computer. It is almost as if she has forgotten that Joel is even there.
Until one morning when Joel notices that his grandma has grown wings on her back. Suddenly, she begins to fly all over town, and even saves a couple of odd characters. Has Joel’s grandma turned into a superhero?
My Flying Grandma is a new and unique take on the classic superhero tale. The warm and moving story is highlighted by Jenny Lucander’s atmospheric illustrations.
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Year of publication
2022
Page count
80
Original publisher
Förlaget M
Reviews
Mia Österlund, Hufvudstadsbladet
With the book My Flying Grandma, Sandelin and Lucander consolidate their positions as our main children's book creators. There lays nothing less than an Ulf Stark- shimmer over Sandelin's way of storytelling, with a streak of Stark's signum in the sensitive portrayal of a boy, spiced up with a pervasive melancholy and basic concern. - Annika Sandelin and Jenny Lucander have created a grain of gold in children's book publication. Here, God lives in the detail, exquisitely chosen.
B.J. Woodstein, Swedish Book Review
"Annika Sandelin’s touching book is beautifully illustrated by Jenny Lucander’s bright and angular drawings. One nice feature of the images is that Joel and his grandma are of different ethnicities and colours, but this is never mentioned in the story. Instead, the focus of the narrative is on learning to open yourself up to other people."
Awards & Nominations
Nominations
Runeberg Junior Prize
2023
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