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Frida Nilsson is a leading Swedish author who has been an August Prize nominee three times and won the Astrid Lindgren Prize in 2014. In 2017 she was selected as one of Europe's best emerging writers for young people through the Hay Festival's Aarhus 39. Her books have been translated throughout Europe and nominated for the prestigious Youth Literature Prize in Germany and literary awards throughout Europe.
The Ape Star teaches that love doesn't come in neat packages and it teaches something about the petty nastiness that is dealt out to people who look different. With delicate sensitivity, Nilsson depicts the embarrassment felt by children when they or their family do not fit the norm and the difficulty of feeling always judged and looked down upon when you or a loved one is different. Young readers would empathise with Jonna as she struggles through a range of these emotions until she reaches the place where the power of love overcomes and negates everything else... I concur with The Times Children's Book of the Week - 'Nilsson has the power to make you remember what it was like to be small, fierce, disempowered...- However feeling disempowered is not a barrier to Jonna - ever! The Ape Star is a delight! * ReadPlus *
