Children's Books · Hardback

The Clown Who Really Wasn’t Very Funny

Norwegian title: Klovnen som rett og slett ikke var særlig morsom

Danish writer Kim Fupz Aakeson and Norway’s prize-winning author and illustrator Stian Hole have joined to make this stunning picture book.

The Clown Who Really Wasn’t Very Funny, is a beautiful, playful, colourful book about Dummy the clown who’s about to lose his job because the audiences aren’t laughing as loudly or as often as the circus owner would like them to. But Jan Jensen (as he’s really called) has other sides to him – other sides that the audience also appreciate.

It’s all about life and about being sent back to the reserves bench! And it’s about how not everything has to be funny, noisy and action-packed all the time.

You should sit very still while you look and read! It’ll make you a better person.POLITIKEN, DK

The collaboration between Kim Fupz Aakeson of Stian Hole is a meeting of masters within the genre of Nordic picture books. WEEKENDAVISEN, DK

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