Shorty Takes Off

by Barbro Lindgren, Olof Landström (Illustrator), Richard E. Fisher (Translator)

When everything seems to have gone wrong for Shorty, he wishes so hard that he could fly that he sprouts wings and flys off to find his missing cat

Genres: Picture Books

32 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1990

About the author

Barbro Enskog was born in Bromma, Stockholm. She graduated from art school in 1958 and has been writing books for publication since 1965. Her style has exerted a major influence on Swedish children's literature. Located between realism and surrealism, her works are humorous and imaginative, and her books for children treat important issues to be taken seriously and treated for children.
Early in her career Barbro Lindgren won the 1973 Astrid Lindgren Prize, an annual Swedish literary award distinct from the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. The once-in-a-lifetime award established on Astrid Lindgren's 60th birthday honours good writing for children or youth. Barbro Lindgren's long-time collaborator, the illustrator Eva Eriksson (born 1949), won the Prize in 2001.