Tim lives with mum since his parents divorced. Dad Johnny lives in another city. Tim and dad don’t see each other very often. But today they will spend the whole day together. Tim is waiting at the train station. Johnny is coming to visit him. The whole day Tim proudly tells everyone they meet that this is his dad! Johnny does the same. When Johnny is getting on the train to return home at the end of the day, he brings Tim on to the train with him and introduces him to the whole carriage – “This is Tim, the best son a father could ever have!”

A very warm description of the great love between a father and son who seldom see each other. In a gentle yet very emotional manner Holmberg portrays what it might be like for a little boy to send a day with a father he doesn’t see that often.

Nearly one million copies sold in China - a modern classic!

Bo R Holmberg is a well-known and award-winning author of books for both adults and children. This was his first picture book. Eva Eriksson is one of Sweden’s most loved illustrators with a large number of classics.

First published in 2003

Rights sold: Chinese (simplified), Slovenian, English, Japanese
(Previously, but now reverted: French, Chinese (complex), Danish, Korean)

“A masterful chamber play about the conditions of the modern day family.”
Svenska Dagbladet

“Tim and Johnny show many emotions through mimicry and body language while the text conveys the story in a laconic Hemingway-style.”
Svenska Dagbladet