Part of Series
What should you give a real sheik for dinner? And will Ulf manage to hypnotize Marianne so she’ll kiss him? Ulf is an ordinary boy, growing up in a quiet suburb. But when his amateur radio fan father invites a real sheik to dinner, his mother gets nervous. Ulf is worried that something far worse will happen—that Percy, his best friend, will have to leave town. My friend Percy and the sheik is the second in a series of three books about Ulf and Percy. It has been translated into English for the first time by Gecko Press publisher Julia Marshall, assisted by a grant from the Swedish Institute. She says she chose this book “because it has the most wonderfully round plot, and because Ulf Stark writes with a huge heart and a huge sense of humour and never misses a beat.”
Author
Ulf Gottfrid Stark was a Swedish author and screenwriter (he adapted several of his own books for film and wrote the screenplay for the 1999 film Tsatsiki, morsan och polisen). Stark collaborated with the illustrators Anna Höglund and Mati Lepp. From 1989 to 1998 he was an elected member of the Swedish Academy for Children's Books Svenska barnboksakademin. In 1998 he received the Nordic Children's Book Prize. Stark was born and grew up in Stureby, Stockholm Municipality, which place features in several of his books. Stark's interest in writing started early; during his time at secondary school he was introduced to writing by his classmate Peter Curman, and in 1964 he wrote his first poetry Ett hål till livet. Following this, Stark's interest in writing for a career was greatly encouraged.
