This story shows that the final stages of life need not be a 'difficult' subject. A beautiful book that children love ? it is one of Sweden's bestselling and most borrowed children's books ?yGoodbye Mr Muffinywon the 2002 Swedish August Prize. Voted book of the year by a children's poll in both the Swedish Book Jury Prize (2002) and the French Chronos Prize for Youth Literature (2008?2009)

This book is part of a book series called Hawthorn Childrens Classics .

There are 42 pages in this book. This book was published 2010 by Hawthorn Press Ltd .

Nathan Large has translated eight of the Findus and Pettson books from Swedish to English, and now lives in Sweden with his family. Eva Eriksson is one Sweden's best loved children's illustrators, winning the Astrid Lindgren and prestigious August prizes. Ulf Nilsson is a celebrated Swedish children's writer, who has won the August and US Batchelder prizes. Ulf Nilsson is a celebrated Swedish author, who has won the August and US Batchelder prizes. Anna-Clara Tidholm is the winner of many awards, including the August prize, the Elsa Beskow Prize and the German Youth Literature prize