You Have a Girlfriend, Alfie Atkins

You Have a Girlfriend, Alfie Atkins
Author Gunilla Bergström
Original title 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
Published in English
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]

Plot

Alfons is playing with Viktor and Victor's cousin Milla. They build a treehouse. When he doesn't play with Viktor, he plays with Milla. Together they plan to build a letter box 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 seing a group of guys teasing him, writing that he plays with girls. For a while, he doesn't want to play with her for a while but finally she still appears. Alfons ignore those who tease, and when the treehouse flag finally rises to the top nobody teases anymore.

References

  1. "Alfons och Milla". Worldcat. 1985. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
  2. "TV SVT, Kanal 1 1994-03-18" (in Swedish). Svensk mediedatabas. 18 March 1994. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
  3. "You Have a Girlfriend, Alfie Atkins". Worldcat. 1988. Retrieved 15 January 2015.