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Children's Books902Literature and Fiction722Narrative Non-fiction336Self Help179Crafts and Hobbies146Mystery and Crime143Cook Books107UpLit82

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2025 and newer2020–20242015–20192014 and older

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Picture books318Easy read235Read-aloud184Children's novels238Young adult121Children's non-fiction181Comics33

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Min første leseløve - Vitseløve 7 Prompevitser
Children's Books2021 · 40 pp · Age 6 - 9

Min første leseløve - Vitseløve 7 Prompevitser

Sjuende bok i den populære Vitseløve-serien!24 vitser om promp! Stinkende, overraskende og noen ganger fuktig promp. Kan det bli gøyere? Nå også med fire bonusvitser.Samlet av landets mest lattermilde redaksjon og illeluktende og kvalmende illustrert av den svenske tegneserieguruen, Johan Wanloo. Å lære å lese er ikke gøy, det er latterlig morsomt!

Joke Lion 8 – ABC
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Children's Books2021 · 48 pp · Age 6 - 9

Joke Lion 8 – ABC

Eighth book in the Joke Lion series! Laughter is a fantastic tool for learning to read. That’s the thinking behind this book of jokes based on the ABC: children will learn the alphabet and get a joke into the bargain. There’s a joke for every letter, all brilliantly illustrated by Elisabeth Moseng. V is for Vegetable Which vegetables sound cold but are really hot? Chili peppers. This is a My First Reading Lion aimed at the 6-9 age group.

Pepperoni Circus and the Chicken Cannon
Children's Books2021 · 88 pp · Age 6 - 9

Pepperoni Circus and the Chicken Cannon

Camilla Victoria Storm

In Pepperoni Circus and the Chicken Cannon we meet circus ringmaster Pål-O Pepperonini and his fabulous hens. The hens, which are White Italians, are extraordinarily well trained. They don’t say a single word, but cluck instead – and only Pepperoni can understand what they say. At the deepest level, this book is about what happens if people are too strict with their children.

The Snow Monsters
Children's Books2021 · 56 pp · Age 6 - 9

The Snow Monsters

Bjørn Ousland

A comic book that offers exactly the right amount of scary for the very youngest readers! The snow is pelting down as Pi and Peder head outside with their sleds. In the wasteland behind the house, Peder is kidnapped by a flock of scary snow monsters, and Pi follows the trail all the way to the ice castle, where thrills, spills and new adventures await … Bjørn Ousland has an immense talent for telling exciting and ever-so-slightly scary stories for children. The books about Peder and Pi are full to the brim with imagination and magic. These are books that take play and children seriously!

Who Poisoned Hennie the Whale?
Children's Books2020 · 112 pp · Age 6 - 9

Who Poisoned Hennie the Whale?

Endre Lund Eriksen / Gisle Normann Melhus

Hennie the Whale is terribly ill and when it turns out that somebody has poisoned her, the Animal Detective Bureau takes on the case. Along with retired master detective Carl Berner and hyperactive mink Mirja, junior detective Nora tries to find out who’s behind it. The trail points in different directions, and maybe there isn’t just one criminal but several. A really, really gross and funny crime story from a place you’d never believe anybody could live – or at least not criminals.

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Death
Children's Books2020 · 104 pp · Age 6 - 12

Death

Endre Lund Eriksen

“Oh no! A book about death, and I’m in it…” Mikkel really doesn’t want to be in a book about death. Because in books like that, people end up dying, don’t they? But when the narrator starts to tell the story, Mikkel gets curious.Why do people die? What happens in the body when people die? And what does it mean to say that the dead “return to earth”? Death is a graphic fact book that takes death seriously – in a seriously funny way.

Help the planet!
Children's Books2020 · 112 pp · Age 6 - 12

Help the planet!

Miljøagentene

The super useful guide for all children who care about the climate, and wonder what they can do to help the planet.Clear the air! Take care of the ocean! Consume less! Have fun outdoors!The issue of climate change has engaged many children. This book aims to explain central questions of the climate and offer easy tips to what children can do to live more environmentally friendly lives. The activities are fun to do, either together with friends or by oneself - and for every chapter, there is a secret quest...

The Coffee Cod
Children's Books2020 · 64 pp · Age 6 - 9

The Coffee Cod

Lena Lindahl

The Lofoten fishing season is underway and everybody wants to catch this year’s coffee cod – a fish weighing over 30 kilos that will earn them a kilo of coffee. The sea’s no place for little kids, say the fishermen, but Tora just scoffs at that. Because she’s ten and can do absolutely anything. Or at least that’s what Mum tells her. Tora sneaks off in the little boat and heads out to catch a coffee cod. But the sea is wild and the obstacles are many. A beautiful, fully illustrated story about brave girls, choppy seas and enormous cod.

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The Clown Who Really Wasn’t Very Funny
Children's Books2020 · 48 pp · Age 6 - 9

The Clown Who Really Wasn’t Very Funny

Kim Fupz Aakeson

Danish writer Kim Fupz Aakeson and Norway’s prize-winning author and illustrator Stian Hole have joined to make this stunning picture book. The Clown Who Really Wasn’t Very Funny, is a beautiful, playful, colourful book about Dummy the clown who’s about to lose his job because the audiences aren’t laughing as loudly or as often as the circus owner would like them to. But Jan Jensen (as he’s really called) has other sides to him – other sides that the audience also appreciate. It’s all about life and about being sent back to the reserves bench! And it’s about how not everything has to be funny, noisy and action-packed all the time. You should sit very still while you look and read! It’ll make you a better person.POLITIKEN, DK The collaboration between Kim Fupz Aakeson of Stian Hole is a meeting of masters within the genre of Nordic picture books. WEEKENDAVISEN, DK

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Locotopia in the Stone Age
Children's Books2020 · Age 6 - 12

Locotopia in the Stone Age

Simon Stranger

Come along to the Stone Age! Simon and Helena live in a cave, but have to move out due to a huge flood. Even the shaman can’t stop all the rain… They are forced into the most dangerous place in the whole world: the forest!! Which is full of sable-toothed tigers, mammoths and other lethal animals. Simon and Helena are ravenous, but can they overpower the huge mammoths with their simple tools? And as if that wasn’t enough, Simon and Helena have to solve the oldest murder mystery ever: Who really killed Ötzi, the iceman? On their journey, Simon and Helena also meets mysterious Neanderthals, and discovers the curious stone formation Stonehenge. And maybe they can knock their heads together (or their flint) to build a fire? This is the third stand-alone book in the world’s most incorrect history of the world. Get excited to learn this history like you never were taught it in school.

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Vikings in 1-2-3
Children's Books2020 · 72 pp · Age 6 - 12

Vikings in 1-2-3

Cecilie Winger

How was life really during the Viking age? Why did the Vikings go on raids? Did they really have horns on their helmets? This easy read offers everything you need to know about the historic time periods of the Viking Age.

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The Magic Test
Children's Books2020 · 120 pp · Age 6 - 12

The Magic Test

Elin Viktoria Unstad

The Magic Test is the story about Henry and his bothersom family, challenging jigsaw puzzles and silly magic tricks. Henry is most interested in sitting in his room with a good jigsaw puzzle. But as the rest of the family are sports fanatics, he rare get his way. But one day there is a POOF! and a boy appears. He claims to be a fairy with a magical wand. " You have wished me here", says the boy. "I did?" says Henry. And just like that his life is turned up side down. The Magic Test is a playful story about getting something else than what you (perhaps) might have wished for. Perfect for ages 7 to 12 years.

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