My Friend Lage

A quirky children’s book by one of the most famous Swedish contemporary authors of children’s litterature, Eva Lindström.From the cover:I saw him on a nature show on the TV. Then we met outside the supermarket.His bag was broken.I got to help him home with his things.For a while he worked with drilling holes but it didn’t interest him so he quit.Lage is his name. We are friends.The book was made into an animated movie by the same name in 2015, and was followed by the book “By the Long Wide Foot of the Mountain”, which focus on side character Janne.