Als wir allein auf der Welt waren

by Ulf Nilsson, Eva Eriksson

Rare Book

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Swedish Literature

Hardcover

First published October 1, 2009

About the author

Ulf Nilsson is a prolific author, who's written over 100 books and received many awards, including the August and American Batchelder awards.

Reviews

[Hilary · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 stars. A 6yr old boy learns to tell the time in school. When his dad doesn't come to collect him from school he walks home and thinks his parents must have been run over and killed. He collects his younger brother from day care and they set about building a home in the back garden. When mum and dad get a call from the teacher to say their son left two hours early we realise his time telling skills weren't as good as he thought.

Although I did enjoy the idea behind this book you did have to suspend belief in the way this happened so easily for both of them to leave, indeed for one of them to be taken. As this is aimed at young children I'm not sure that this is a great idea to be putting into childrens heads. I can think of a child who did this and gave the teachers who were responsible for him the fright of their lives.

[Mahdiye Fateh · Rating 4 out of 5]

قصه ی خوب خواندم. با تخیلات واقعی کودکانه.

[Zeynab · Rating 4 out of 5]

«تک و تنها توی دنیای به این بزرگی»


الهی بگردم ناز بودنಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ⁩

[Miriam · Rating 2 out of 5]

Unsure what I think about this book. It is funny and cute and celebrates kids' creativity and innocence....but I don't think the idea of both parents dying (which the boy thinks is true, but we find out at the end is not) was particularly helpful for a certain 5 year old in my house who went to bed with a rather worried expression on his face that night!

[معصومه توکلی · Rating 5 out of 5]

عنوان ترجمه ی فارسی:
تک و تنها توی دنیای به این بزرگی!

[Jay Bushara · Rating 4 out of 5]

A little boy comes home from school (early, it turns out), finds the door locked with nobody answering, and naturally assumes his parents have been hit by that truck, probably from reading too many Scandinavian picture books. (Not for nothing, but remember Roald Dahl once killed off some parents with a rampaging rhinoceros escaped from the zoo.) As it happens, this sort of runaway imagination also comes with some very real and pragmatic rewards: the boy liberates his toddler brother from “playschool,” builds another house where they can live - at least until college - complete with mossy blankets and a television fashioned from a cardboard box that doesn’t presumably work because the batteries are dead. “Anyway there’s nothing good on TV these days,” shrugs the boy. Surprising and true.

[Guilherme Semionato · Rating 2 out of 5]

Tone-deaf and bizarre.

[Linda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this book. Just what children love to hear. A story about someone just like them. A little boy posed with a problem who uses his imagination. He builds a hut, makes a TV.... loves and looks after his little brother. No spoilers here... you need to read and share with the little people in your life. Wordy but words children are patient to hear as they want to see and hear what happens.

[Dave · Rating 3 out of 5]

Remarkably cute for a book about thinking your parents are dead.

[Kaido · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pildid olid kena. Veoauto alla jäämise asemel oleks võinud midagi muud olla.

[Frans Kempe · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bok som handlar om ett barn som tror att hans föräldrar är döda därför att de inte hämtar honom på förskolan.

[boeken lezen (en onthouden) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Prachtig! aanrader. Zowel ik als mijn zoon vonden dit erg mooi.
Mooie tekeningen, goed verhaal, neemt kinderen serieus, en vage tik lekker exotisch (allez, Scandinavisch).

Ik was dit boek totaal vergeten te noteren, en achteraf dacht ik eraan terug hoe mooi we het vonden, en ik wilde het hier aanraden. Ik was alleen vergeten van wie het was. Ik was er bijna een uur van overtuigd dat dat wel Lindren moest.zijn.echt.waar. Want: zelfstandige kinderen, Scandinavische setting, broertjes die voor elkaar zorgen, tragedie bij ouders, buitenleven, tijdloze setting. Alleen die Pingu deed me twijfelen, en die was me nu net bijgebleven. Nilsson is dus gewoon de nieuwe Lindgren, en dat is hopelijk genoeg adelbrieven om eens iets van hem vast te pakken.

We lazen het toevallig in het Frans, vanuit het idee: het is toch vertaald (Zweeds) dus het origineel kunnen we toch niet lezen.

Het is een vrij lang verhaal, en vraagt behoorlijk wat concentratie, maar de spanningsboog zat goed (en hutten in d tuin spreken hier altijd zeer aan), dus het lukte goed om de vertelzit uit te zitten.

[Isabella · Rating 5 out of 5]

When we were alone in the world is a fantastic book about a boy and his little brother braving the world as they thought they parents had been ran over by a truck. The pictures are beautiful and are very detailed.

[Karina Flores · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excelente historia y la narrativa es genial para lectores principiantes