From Broborg Daily News: The police stands powerless, and everybody is asking themselves: WHO starts an entire house on fire in just a few seconds and is gone from the scene before anyone has time to even turn on their bedroom lights? Who could be th ...
From Broborg Daily News: The police stands powerless, and everybody is asking themselves: WHO starts an entire house on fire in just a few seconds and is gone from the scene before anyone has time to even turn on their bedroom lights? Who could be that quick with a gas can and matches?
At The Dirty Bun Café there is a sense of unrest. An arsonist is on the loose in the city of Broborg and everybody wonders when he will strike again. The so called “Burner” has already turned Benny’s Burgers, Lundin’s Cheese and Whey Butter, the cleaning business Oh-So-Clean, The Candy Cache, City Park’s pay potty and Grand Hotel, into a pile of ashes.
The Dirty Bun Café is owned by Harriett, a sad dog who, unfortunately, is not a great baker. The cinnamon buns look like vomit, the thumb print cookies like monkey brains, not to mention the Danishes and the dream cookies. To prove to herself and to her increasingly less satisfied customers that she is capable, Harriet decides one night to bake the most difficult thing of all: Croissants. Due to an exaggerated proportion of yeast, the whole thing ends in catastrophe. The bakery floods with dough, and when Harriet manages to get out of the bubbling, frothing mess, something is stuck to her back. It is wings, dough wings! Suddenly Broborg has a new superhero, a mystical, flying dog with croissant wings, who manages to both catch counterfeiters and solve the problem with the arsonist.
With crazy imagination and great linguistic appetite, Frida Nilsson manages to create a whole new world where nothing is impossible, filled with unforgettable characters. In an inimitable way, she has written a story that makes you think of The Wind in the Willows, Superman, and The Godfather. The wonderful illustrations were created by Peter Bergting.