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New Swedish Books 48 Anna Ribbing (text) b. 1964
Ida Sundin Asp (ill) b. 1990 Rut and the Jungle Hat Publisher Urax www.uraxforlag.se Rights Koja Agency carin.bacho@kojaagency.com Anna Ribbing Selected Works Bananflugor och kramsnö – hur ser orden ut (together with Mati Lepp, ill) Picture Book 2004 Boken om boken (together with Amanda Eriksson, ill) Picture Book 2007 ABC – En ska inte vara med! (together with Mia Nilsson, ill) Picture Book 2010 Literary Prizes Carl von Linné-plaketten 2005 Ida Sundin Asp Selected Works Idag vet jag inte vem jag är Picture Book 2016 Rut and the Jungle Hat With the board book Rut and the Jungle Hat Anna Ribbing and Ida Sundin Asp are really going for it! What’s particularly ingenious is how the very precise text says something whilst the images, by Ida Sundin Asp, simultaneously show something different. As Rut searches for her hat she steps into an elusive jungle-world that has shot up inside her house. Aided by a flashlight she eagerly looks for her missing jungle hat. After a while the reader discovers that the hat has actually been on Rut’s head all along. Dominated by turquoise and blue tones, the multilayered setting, in combination with an approach that celebrates play, turns the book into a great reading experience even in this small format. Photo: Private Photo: Amanda Åkerman