You Have a Girlfriend, Alfie Atkins | |
Author: | Gunilla Bergström |
Title Orig: | Alfons och Milla |
Translator: | Joan Sandin |
Illustrator: | Gunilla Bergström |
Cover Artist: | Gunilla Bergström |
Country: | Sweden |
Language: | Swedish |
Series: | Alfie Atkins |
Genre: | children |
Published: | 1985 |
Publisher: | Rabén & Sjögren |
English Pub Date: | 1988 |
Preceded By: | Lycklige Alfons Åberg (1984) |
Followed By: | Kalas, Alfons Åberg! (1986) |
You Have a Girlfriend, Alfie Atkins (Swedish: Alfons och Milla) is a 1985 children's book by Gunilla Bergström.[1] As an episode of the animated TV series it originally aired over SVT on 18 March 1994.[2] Translated by Joan Sandin, it was published in English in 1988.[3]
Alfons is playing with Viktor and Viktor's cousin Milla. They build a treehouse. When he doesn't play with Viktor, he plays with Milla. Together they plan to build a letterbox with aerial lift, allowing messages to be sent into the treehouse. Milla kan bake cookies and create a theatre-circus with the Teddybears. She can also stand on one hand, and dares to jump from the garage roof near the parking lot. They think of a flag that can be raised and lowered.
One day at school, Alfons goes toileting when seeing a group of guys teasing him, writing that he plays with girls. For a while, he doesn't want to play with her but finally she still appears. Alfons ignore those who tease, and when the treehouse flag finally rises to the top nobody teases anymore.