Synopsis
“Dad says that he is a proper “Frankophile”. He likes everything and anything to do with Frank”. That includes French waffles, franked mail and Frankenstein’s monster. And one day it also turns out that it includes a man called Frank, who moves in with father and son in their flat.
It is not easy to make space in the family for a new surprise member. Especially not Frank, who takes up way too much space. It is Frank here and there and everywhere.
A lovely picture book where the focus is less on diversity and more on accepting new family constellations and giving in to something that is actually rather nice – a new friend, whose large shoes can contain a lot of Lego (and water)...
Winner of the Blixen Prize 2019 in the category Children’s Book of the Year
Nominated for the Nordic Literature Council Prize for Children's Books 2023
Included in the White Ravens 2022
Nominated for The Best Picture Book of the Year 2022 by the Copenhagen Libraries
Second place in Grundtvigsk Forum's Children's Literature Competition for new LGBT-literature 2019
Reviews
"Linguistically the book is incredibly innovative and playful: "It's Frank here and there and everywhere", as the boy says. Thau-Jensen's illustrations are full of quirkiness." – Damián Arguimbau (Kristeligt Dagblad)
"This is quality stamped Danish children's book literature, told and drawn with solidary love and elevated from all kinds of prejudice - a true, top-modern rainbow story." – Klaus Rothstein (Bo Bedre (Danish magazine))
"Lovely warm and caring book about a universal topic, namely jealousy towards a new step-parent... the illustrations are absolutely fantastic and full of details..." – Stine Veisegaard (Danish Library Centre (Dansk BiblioteksCenter))
