Plupp is the protagonist of a series of children's books by Swedish author Inga Borg (1925?2017), ^[1] who first created the character in 1955. Plupp is a small figure with blue hair and a red nose, who lives in a kata by a lake called Blavattnet ("Blue Waters") somewhere in the far north . ^[2]

Borg describes the character as an invisibling (meaning that Plupp is invisible to humans) who is both human and animal in nature. ^[3] She further explains that Plupp is neither male nor female, as she wanted to create a character that children of both sexes could identify with. Plupp also has the ability to talk with animals; two of their closest friends are the lemming Lammel and the stoat Hermelin.

The books about Plupp have been translated into Danish , Inari Sami , Northern Sami , Skolt Sami , English , Esperanto , Finnish , French , Faroese , Greenlandic , Icelandic , Norwegian , and German . In 1968, Borg adapted the books into the animated TV series Plupp och hans vanner ("Plupp and his friends"). ^[4]

In 1970, Borg received the Elsa Beskow Award for the Plupp books. ^[5]

The books [ edit ]

• Plupp och renarna ("Plupp and the Reindeer ", 1955)
• Plupp bygger bo ("Plupp Builds a goahti ", 1956)
• Plupp gor en langfard ("Plupp on a Long Trip", 1957)
• Plupp och lamlarna (Plupp and the Lemmings", 1960), new edition 1982
• Plupp (1964), edition with 4 previous books
• Plupp reser till havet ("Plupp Travels to the Sea", 1967)
• Plupp och fagelberget ("Plupp and the Bird Mountain", 1969)
• Plupp aker flotte ("Plupp Goes Rafting ", 1971)
• Plupp reser till Island ("Plupp Travels to Iceland ", 1972)
• Plupp kommer till stan ("Plupp in the City", 1977)
• Hemma hos Plupp ("At Home with Plupp", 1982)
• Vinter hos Plupp ("Plupp's Winter", 1982)
• Plupp och varfloden ("Plupp and the Spring Flood", 1982)
• Plupp och midnattssolen ("Plupp and the Midnight Sun ", 1982)
• Plupp och hans vanner ("Plupp and His Friends", 1983)
• Plupp och bjornungarna ("Plupp and the Bear Cubs", 1983)
• Plupp i storskogen ("Plupp in the Great Forest", 1983)
• Plupp och havet ("Plupp and the Sea", 1986)
• Plupp och tranorna ("Plupp and the Cranes ", 1986)
• Plupp och vargen ("Plupp and the Wolf", 1986)
• Plupp och Tuva-Kari i Kolmareskog ("Plupp and Tuva-Mari in Kolmare Forest", 1990)
• Plupp och all varldens djur ("Plupp and all the Animals of the World", 1991), 1992 calendar
• Kalas hos Plupp ("Plupp's Party", 1996)
• Plupp och renkalven ("Plupp and the Reindeer Calf", 1997)
• Plupp och algen ("Plupp and the Moose ", 1998)
• Plupp och lodjuret ("Plupp and the Lynx ", 2005)

References [ edit ]