Original title Listigt Alfons Åberg! Cover artist Gunilla Bergström Series Alfie Atkins Originally published 1977 Genre Children's literature Translator Robert Swindells | Illustrator Gunilla Bergström Language Swedish Published in English 1979 Publisher Rabén & Sjögren Country Sweden | |
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You’re a Sly One, Alfie Atkins! (Swedish: Listigt Alfons Åberg!) is a 1977 children's book by Gunilla Bergström. Translated by Robert Swindells, it was published in English in 1979. As an episode of the animated TV series it originally aired over SVT on 3 January 1980.
Plot
Alfons visits his grandmother on his father's side. Visiting are also his cousins, aged 7 and 9. They have clock, can read and thinks Alfons is too young. Alfons' grandmother usually plays cards with children, and gives them cookies. The cousins don't allow Alfons participating in the card game inside the living room.
Alfons is left all alone in the kitchen. He gets an idea and picks up a stool, before using a flowerpot to climb up a shelf in the kitchen where the cookies are. Alfons eats up the cookies, and feels sorry for himself.
Suddenly, Alfons is told to come as they are to watch the photographic album from when Alfons' grandmother was a little girl. When she will give them squash and cookies. Alfons states he didn't because he's so young that he doesn't understand anything, just as the cousins said before. Since then, Alfons is allowed to play card with them.