History Literature / AlfieAtkins

[[SimilarlyNamedWorks Not to be confused]] with the film ''Film/{{Alfie}}'' or its remake, or the [[Webcomic/{{Alfie}} NSFW webcomic]].

* WarIsHell: Though it's toned down for the sake of a young audience, this is is essentially the theme of ''Alfie Atkins and the Soldier Dad''. Alfie's friend Hambi comes from an immigrant family and his father used to be a soldier. Alfie is interested in hearing about the war, but Hambi's father doesn't want to talk about it, just saying that was is horrible.

''Alfie Atkins'' (''Alfons Åberg'' in the original Swedish) is a series of children's books, written and illustrated by Swedish author Gunilla Bergström. Alfie is an ordinary kid of five or six years, who lives with his father in an apartment complex somewhere in Sweden. He goes to kindergarten (later elementary school), plays with friends, gets certain problems with going to bed and other everyday life things young children deal with.

The books have seen several adaptations to film, audio dramas, theatre plays and TV. Best-known are probably the two {{Animated Adaptation}}s -- one series of 13 ten-minute cartoons produced between 1979 and 1982 (with an additional three released in 1994), and one movie and subsequent 13-episode series in 2013.

* ImaginaryFriend: Alfie's "secret friend" Malcolm ("Moggie" in the English TV version) is one of the most famous examples of an imaginary friend in Swedish kids' literature -- despite only being in a few books.

* PutOnABus: In the books, Morgan quietly vanishes from Alfie's life at the end of ''Who Will Save Alfie Atkins?'' when Alfie makes his first ''real'' friend, Victor. The end of the book kind of treats it as a ButNowIMustGo on his part; Alfie didn't need him anymore and so he disappeared... perhaps to find some other lonely kid who need a "secret friend." He's not ''quite'' gone from the franchise, though; he's appeared in adaptations, and even had his own spin-off book where he visits Milla at night and comforts her doll who's afraid of the dark.

''Alfie Atkins'' (''Alfons Åberg'' in the original Swedish) is a series of children's books, written and illustrated by Swedish author Gunilla Bergström. Alfie is an ordinary kid of five or six years, who lives with his father in an apartment complex somewhere in Sweden. He goes to kindergarten (later elemantary school), plays with friends, gets certain problems with going to bed and other everyday life things young children deal with.

* ImaginaryFriend: Mållgan

[[SimilarlyNamedWorks Not to be confused]] with the film ''Film/{{Alfie}}'' or its remake.

'''Alfie Atkins''' ('''Alfons Åberg''' in the original Swedish) is a series of children's books, written and illustrated by Swedish author Gunilla Bergström. Alfie is an ordinary kid of five or six years, who lives with his father in an apartment complex somewhere in Sweden. He goes to kindergarten (later elemantary school), plays with friends, gets certain problems with going to bed and other everyday life things young children deal with.

Not to be confused with the film ''Film/{{Alfie}}'' or the remake.
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* StandardFiftiesFather: Alfie's dad is a typical tie-and-cardigan-wearing, pipe-smoking and sage-advice-dispensing father. But he also [[SubvertedTrope subverts]] parts of the trope since Alfie's mother for some reason is nowhere to be seen in the whole series, which makes it necessary for Dad to do household chores which most 50s fathers would expect their wives to handle. Of course, the first book wasn't published in TheFifties, but in 1972, when it was becoming popular to flip traditional gender roles even in works for children.

* StandardFiftiesFather: Alfie's dad is a typical tie-and-cardigan-wearing, pipe-smoking and sage-advice-dispensing father. But he also [[SubvertedTrope subverts]] parts of the trope since Alfie's mother for some reason is nowhere to be seen, which makes it necessary for him to also do traditional female household chores.

* StandardFiftiesFather: Alfie's dad is suitably tie-and-cardigan-wearing, pipe-smoking and sage-advice-dispensing. But he also [[SubvertedTrope subverts]] parts of the trope since Alfie's mother is missing, which makes it necessary for him to also do traditional female household chores.

* StandardFiftiesFather: Alfie's dad is suitably tie-and-cardigan-wearing, pipe-smoking and sage-advice-dispensing.

'''Alfie Atkins''' (Alfons Åberg in the original Swedish) is a series of children's books, written and illustrated by Swedish author Gunilla Bergström. Alfie is an ordinary kid of five or six years, who lives with his father in an apartment complex somewhere in Sweden. He goes to kindergarten, plays with friends, does not want to go to bed, and other everyday life things young children deal with.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The plot of ''Is That A Monster, Alfie Atkins?''. Alfie loses his new soccer ball during a ballgame and blames a younger kid who's acting as ball boy for not finding it. Alfie ends up hitting him, and is wracked with guilt, which ends up manifesting as a fear about a monster under his bed.

'''Alfie Atkins''' is a series of children's books, written and illustrated by Swedish author Gunilla Bergström. Alfie is an ordinary kid of five or six years, who lives with his father in an apartment. He goes to kindergarten, plays with friends, does not want to go to bed, and other ultra-common stuff for a boy his age.

Not to be confused with the film ''Film/{{Alfie}}'' or the remake.

AlfieAtkins is a series of childrens' books, written and illustrated by Swedish author Gunilla Bergstr? Alfie is an ordinary kid of five or six years, who lives with his father in an apartment. He goes to kindergarten, plays with friends, does not want to go to bed, and other ultra-common stuff for a boy his age.

Not to be confused with the film ''{{Alfie}}'' or the remake.