This story shows that the final stages of life need not be a 'difficult' subject. A beautiful book that children love ? it is one of Sweden's bestselling and most borrowed children's books ?ÿGoodbye Mr Muffinÿwon the 2002 Swedish August Prize. Voted book of the year by a children's poll in both the Swedish Book Jury Prize (2002) and the French Chronos Prize for Youth Literature (2008?2009)