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Grandpa didn’t like hospital. So together we made a plan...

Grandpa’s in the hospital and hating it.
Ulf Stark was born in Stockholm, Sweden, He swears at the nurses and makes trouble
in 1944. He has written around thirty books for everyone. Dad finds it too stressful to visit,
for children and young adults, translated into but Gottfried Junior visits Grandpa as often
more than twenty languages. He has won as he’s allowed, and when he’s not allowed,
many prizes in Sweden and internationally, he goes anyway.
including the German Youth Literature Prize
and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Grandpa thinks only of the place he was
happiest—the island where he lived with
Kitty Crowther received the Astrid Lindgren Grandma. He wants to go back one last time,
Memorial Award in 2010. but they won’t let him out of the hospital.

Gottfried Junior and Grandpa take things into
their own hands. If running away is the only
way to the island, then they’ll be runaways.

“I hate the food here,” Grandpa said. “They’ve taken all the joy
out of it. Not even the water tastes any good.”

“Perhaps you should run away,” I suggested.
“I did a lot of that when I was young,” he said. “But I think it’s
a bit late now...”

But by the time I had to leave for the bus, we’d made a plan.
ISBN 978-1-776572-34-2

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