Charlie and the Wombat Warriors

Elina Hirvonen

Original title: Kalle ja Vompatin Soturit

Author: Elina Hirvonen

Illustrator: Nadja Sarell

Published: 2021

Publisher: Tammi

Genre: Middle Grade (8-12 Years)

Part of a series: Julia & P.A.L.

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How to help someone who does not want to be helped?

Charlie, aged 11, is more interested in hairstyles, fashion, music and skateboarding than focusing on school.   Things get difficult when Charlie’s parents divorce and his mother, who has found a new family, leaves Charlie to stay with his dad.

Charlie´s plush monkey Mung Kee, a talented member of the Plush Animal League (P.A.L.), sees his misery and tries to help. But Mung Kee´s attempts are disturbed by the Gang President who is actively looking for a child to join his ranks to work as an undercover agent.

Julia and her plush toy agent Buck come to help and join Mung Kee in his mission to show Charlie the fatal consequences of letting his pain turn into anger.

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FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)

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About author

Elina Hirvonen

Elina Hirvonen is an award-winning author and documentary filmmaker whose novels have been translated into many languages. Liesl Schillinger praised Hirvonen´s debut novel, When I Forgot, on the front page of The New York Times Book Review, and the novel also received positive reviews from The Independent, The Guardian, The Financial Times and The Globe and Mail.

Hirvonen has received the Kalevi Jäntti Prize and the Nuori Aleksis Prize, and has been nominated for Finlandia Prize and Debut Prize.

Her new novel, The Logbook of Love, is published in Finland in August 2023. The Logbook of Love is the first part of a trilogy of novels that create their world through conversations.


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