Children's & YA

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.

123 for tough kids

Anne Østgaard

Anne Østgaard and Egil Nyhus have made a collection of fun, cool counting poems for tough kids – and most other kids too! The texts rhyme and are simply constructed with good rhythms that make them perfect both for reading out loud and for practising reading, counting and calculating.

Benny and the Ghosts of Nowhere

Tom Erik Fure

Benny and the Ghosts of Nowhere finds Benny and the gang swept up in a new adventure brimming with humor, chills, and romance. Benny's world is turned upside down when his crush, Ken, arrives for a prolonged sleepover. Additionally, Benny has a new nemesis in the form of Magda-Rose’s ruthless daughter-in-law, who has sold Magda-Rose’s mansion and sent her off to an awful retirement home. With Magda-Rose quickly losing hope and withering away, Benny must do everything in his power to save her, vanquish her horrible daughter-in-law, come to terms with his feelings for Ken, and get rid of the new occupants of Magda-Rose’s mansion. And surely nobody wants to live in a haunted house, do they?

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.

Ella Bella Bingo

Frank Mosvold

Ella Bella Bingo sets up a circus at Sunshine Gardens with her best friend Henrik. Then Johnny moves into the house across the road and Ella worries that Henrik won’t be interested in the circus any more – or, worse still, that he’s sick of her and only wants to be friends with the new boy. When Henrik vanishes, Ella and Johnny do their best to find him. Who will find Henrik? Who will Henrik be best friends with? And will anything really come of the Sunshine Gardens Circus? This is an exciting, fast-paced story about friendship, with strong emotions and lashings of humour.

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.

Embarrassing

Kari Stai

Dad loves to swim, and is taking Jon to the water park. 'First one to go down the slide!' Dad yells, Dad loves the slide. Jon doesn't love the slide, and he tries to avoid it by pretending that he has to use the bathroom. Just then, Dad slides down the slide, and his bathing shorts gets stuck in a tree half-way down. Dad is naked! Now Jon must face the slides, to retrieve Dad's swimming shorts.

Ha ha!

Bjørn F. Rørvik

Girl cooties, dead ball and dance lion. Maybe the meaning of these words is very different from the way they sound? A funny book of jokes about odd words.

Scary Extinct Animals

Henning Røed

Did you know that in ancient times there were 15-metre snakes and crocodiles that hunted on land? In the sea there were enormous sea dragons and whales with 36-centimetre long teeth. Some animals are so scary, you can almost be relieved they are extinct. Nowadays you’ll only get to meet them here in this book.

Animal Life

Lena Lindahl

Eye-opening and funny facts about animals’ family life! Did you know that seahorse dads get pregnant? Or that the jaw of a crocodile is the safest place in the world if you happen to be a baby crocodile? In Animal Life, you’ll meet lots of different animal families, and you can read about what it’s like to be a kid in a clownfish family, how young sharks eat their own siblings and why kittens often look so different. And much, much more. Animal Life is written by Lena Lindahl, and richly illustrated by Jens A. Larsen Aas.