All the Dear Little Animals
Age 6+
Picture Storybooks General Fiction
A funny illustrated chapter book about three children who decide someone must bury all the world’s poor dead animals.
Esther was very brave. I was little and scared. 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.
A gently funny, unsentimental story about death in the context of play, from a child’s perspective.
Creators
Ulf Nilsson is a celebrated Swedish children’s writer, who has written many books, for all ages. He is a winner of the August and American Batchelder awards. He wrote the Detective Gordon junior fiction series published to international acclaim by Gecko Press.
Eva Eriksson is one of the world’s great illustrators. Her awards include the Astrid Lindgren Prize and the August award and she is consistently nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen award. Eriksson has illustrated numerous books published by Gecko Press including the internationally popular My Happy Life junior fiction series.
Reviews
Dark and hilarious.
Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Death is a notoriously tricky subject for adults to tackle with children … Sweet, tender, funny and whimsical, this story captures perfectly the child’s perspective and makes for a … delightful picture book
The Sunday Tasmanian
The text laces honest consideration of a difficult subject with winningly mordant humor.
Publisher's Weekly, starred review
