Originally published: Sao Paulo, Brazil: Moderna, 2006 under the title, Felpo Filva.

EVA FURNARI was born in Rome in 1948, but her family moved to Brazil when she was 2 years old. She started out as a writer in 1980 and has since published more than 60 books for children. She has won numerous awards throughout her long career. Fuzz McFlops sold 200,000 copies in Brazil, and is the first of Eva's books to be translated into English.
Translated from the Portuguese by Alison Entrekin. Alison Entrekin is an acclaimed translator from Portuguese, whose translations include Budapest by Chico Buarque, which was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.