Books of the Swedish writer Ulf Stark (winner of national and international literary awards - August, German children's and them . Astrid Lindgren is known and loved in Russia and around the world. In his books, everything is as in life :. They grow up together with the child, open to him the complex modern world of blissful and deranged, eccentrics and boring ... The heroine of Stark’s story “Stupid and boring”, twelve-year-old Simone, it is very difficult to live among the “strangers and jerks who inhabited her house”. with forever forgetting everything (including the birthday of Kilroy's daughter and dog when moving) and abandoning attempts to "become normal" mother, her ridiculous husband In addition, in the new school, Simone is taken for a boy because of her unusual name - and she is forced to do everything not to be in a ridiculous position, starting a "boy's career" ...