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Daunt Books Children's Short Story Competition 2013

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  The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

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  Dreading the festivities planned for his one-hundreth birthday, Allan Karlsson creaks out of his window, shuffles over the flower-beds and grumbles his way onto a bus. And so begins a pleasingly nimble and uplifting adventure, involving criminals, incompetent police and affable rogues. And as his escapades unfold, it becomes clear that Allan has - often inadvertently - played a crucial role in some of the most momentous events of the twentieth century. A delightful farce and a fable.