Lena series
Colour illustrations by Silke Brix
Lena plays football properly, for a club, with a coach and everything. But Mum says she’s got to stop. Not because Mum doesn’t like football, but because Lena has failed yet another maths exam. Maths is by far the vilest subject in the world. What does she care whether eight times six is forty-eight or not? When she grows up, she’ll use a calculator anyway. It’s just a pain that Mum doesn’t see it like that …
Age: 7+
Awards: June 1998 Beliebtestes schwedisches Kinderbuch 7-9 Jahre (Bokjuryn); January 1996 Tipp der Nieder-ländischen Kinderjury
Titles in the Lena series:
Lena hat nur Fußball im Kopf (All Lena Can Think of is Football), 1993
Vielleicht ist Lena in Lennart verliebt (Perhaps Lena is in Love With Lennart), 1994
Lena zeltet Samstag nacht (Lena’s Going Camping on Saturday Night), 1996
Lena findet Fan-Sein gut (Lena Thinks Being a Fan is Great), 1997
Lena möchte immer reiten (Lena Always Wants to Go Riding), 1998
Zum Glück hat Lena die Zahnspange vergessen (Luckily Lena forgets her braces), 2000
Lena - Allerhand und Mehr (Lena - All Sorts and More), 2002
Lena fährt auf Klassenreise (Lena Goes on a School Trip), 2004
Lena wünscht sich auch ein Handy (Lena Wants a Mobile Too), 2005
Lena hat eine Tierkümmerbande (Lena and Friends Look After a Stray Dog), 2006