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Locotopia in the Classical antiquity

Simon Stranger

Welcome to the Classical antiquity. This book is ONLY about antique furniture: antique watches, chairs, couches etc., so there is no point in reading on. Just kidding! Simon and Helena start this story as slaves owned by a nice and reform-friendly slave owner called Reformius. But once more there is a murder (that of Reformius) and once more Simon and Helena get blamed (rude!). They have to run away so they can find a way to clear their own names, and find out why anyone would want Reformius dead. A wild journey ensues, through Plato’s cave, and to Athens just as they are celebrating the end of the Spartan war. It’s total chaos, and the two friends lose each other in the masses. Simon is suddenly on a ship with Odysseus (he says), while Helena has to dress as a soldier to get food and accidentally gets recruited for the war in Asia. How will they get back? Will they find a way to reunite? Can they uncover the conspiracy that killed Reformius? Will Simon win a gold medal, while naked, at the Olympics? (Let’s be honest, that last one seems very unlikely…) The history of the world continues in this hilarious series. The Greek philosophers have never been funnier. The Olympics has never been wilder. The Democracy has never been crazier. And Socrates has never been more irritating…

Ancient Egypt

Eldrid Johansen

Come along on an exciting voyage to Egypt in the olden days. You’ll encounter pharaohs and pyramids, sphynxes and hieroglyphics. In Ancient Egypt, people believed in life after death. But you had to be on your best behaviour while you were alive and pass difficult tests after you were dead. You couldn’t cheat either – because your heart would give you away. And what was happening here in the North while the Egyptians were learning about writing and culture? Totally thrilling material for kids who have cracked the reading code!

Disgusting

Alexander H. Sandtorv

Slimy snot, stinky farts, squirting diarrhoea and the sound of a knife scraping a plate. The world is full of disgusting things. But what are some really disgusting things? And why are they disgusting? The reader will find the answers in this book. But it comes with a warning! If you can’t cope with reading about truly disgusting, repulsive, stinky, slimy stuff, you must not buy this book! The book is repulsively illustrated by Linn Eielsen who has clearly channelled her inner stinking and anally fixated nine-year-old. The resulting illustrations are… well… nauseating.

Either or

Would you rather eat your nails each time you cut them, or eat your hair each time you cut it? Either or? What would you rather? This book is filled with dilemmas, where all of the options are completely insane!

Milla Saves the Amazon

Selma Lønning Aarø

When your best friend suddenly finds a new friend… Milla is ill and has to stay home from school. She isn’t very good at it, she likes to be where it’s all happening! Her best friend Filla comes to visit but one day he doesn’t turn up – because he’s found a new friend. Naja, the new girl in class, wants to be a rainforest scientist, just like Milla. And Milla doesn’t like that! She needs to get better and get back to school so she can show this new girl who knows best when it comes to the Amazon! Because the Amazon is burning – and it needs help. Milla Saves the Amazon fits neatly into Selma Lønning Aarø and Tiril Valeur’s charming hit trilogy about Milla. Climate and conservation play a major role in this delightful tale of friendship and jealousy.

Everyone Has to Sleep

Lena Lindahl

Fun and surprising facts about animals’ sleeping patterns! Did you know that bats sleep upside down? Or that the parrot fish uses a sleeping bag? Or that guinea pigs sleep with their eyes open? In Everyone Has to Sleep you’ll meet lots of different animals and find out how they sleep. It’s totally wild and weird that there are so many different ways of sleeping.

Weird Facts About Europe

Håkon Forfod Sønneland

This is the ultimate guide to weird laws and customs in the different countries of Europe: all the things you’ve ever wondered about, or didn’t even know you were wondering about, when it comes to our neighbour countries. Did you know that the Olympic Games come from Greece? And that all the competitors originally competed naked? Or that chocolate milk was invented by a man in Ireland? Or that in Switzerland you’re not allowed to own just one guinea pig. Håkon Sønnenland calls himself an artist of ideas. That’s probably because he has so many peculiar ideas himself. You can read about some of them in this book. The book has lively illustrations by Jens A. Larsen Aas.

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.

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.

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

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.