Lotta Olsson AuthorEmma AdBåge Illustrator

I Know Everything About the World/Jag vet allt om världen

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I Know Everything About the World/Jag vet allt om världen

What is the world?

For a worm, the world is soil. For a flea, it is fur. A hamster knows the world as a wheel and a nest, while a cat’s world is made of rooms and gentle, stroking hands. A dog understands the world through scents, sticks, and walks; a bird through wind and wide-open skies; a fish through shimmering depths.

In rhythmic verse and captivating illustrations, Lotta Olsson and Emma AdBåge explore how the world looks from the perspective of different animals—small and large, near and far, finite and infinite.

I Know Everything About the World is a playful and philosophical picture book about perspective, curiosity, and the idea that the world is always exactly as big as you are. A book to read slowly, linger over, discover together, and return to again and again.

Lotta Olsson

Author

Lotta Olsson, born in 1973 in Helsingborg, has lived in Stockholm since the 1990s, and she started her writing career early. Her debut took place in 1994 with an acclaimed collection of sonnets: Shadows and Reflections. Five years later, her first children’s book, Prata persilja, was published, illustrated by Maria Jönsson. At this point, she…

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Emma AdBåge

Author Illustrator

Emma AdBåge’s stories and illustrations make everyday emotions and experiences both immediately recognisable and richly interesting. Her stories and drawings are observant, succinct, humorous and perceptive. With their carefully drawn lines and gentle colours, AdBåge’s illustrations combine small details with bold characters, whose bodily postures and facial expressions give a distinct insight into what they…

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