Children's & YA

Coco-Banana and the Hurry-Up Robot

Rolf Magne G. Andersen

The Children's Audio Favorite - now as picture books! Coco-Banana loves to take his time in the morning. Daddy Coconut does not, he is always busy. So Coco-Banana invents a Hurry-Up Robot, to help the family pick up speed in the mornings. But will the robot actually help the family, or will it create even more trouble for them? Coco-Banana is a little inventer living with his family Mama Banana, Daddy Coconut and his little sister Baby Coco. In his inventor's shed Coco-Banana invents crazy inventions, something that always tend to get him into strange and hilarious situations - as funny for grown up readers as for small children. Author Rolf Magne Andersen started out writing the stories about Coco-Banana for Norwegian Storytel, and they quickly became the most popular series for children listening to audio books. Illustrator Victoria Hamre has made illustrations looking like they have been taken straight out of an animated film.

Coco-Banana and The Candy Vacuum Cleaner

Rolf Magne G. Andersen

The Children's Audio Favorite - now as picture books! Coco-Banana does not like to clean his room, but this time there is no way around it. He decides to make the vacuuming more fun by inventing a Candy Vacuum Cleaner. But what happens when the vacuum goes totally loco? Coco-Banan is a little inventer living with his family Mama Banana, Daddy Coconut and his little sister Baby Coco. In his inventors shed Coco-Banana invents crazy inventions, something that always tend to get him into strange and hilarious situations - as funny for grown up readers as for small children. Author Rolf Magne Andersen started out writing the stories about Coco-Banana for Norwegian Storytel, and they quickly became the most popular series for children listening to audio books. Illustrator Victoria Hamre has made illustrations looking like they have been taken straight out of an animated film.

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…

Bodies Are Odd

Anne Østgaard

Runny noses, dripping blood, strong muscles and limber legs! Our bodies are strange and fascinating things, and children love to hear about all the weird stuff that happens inside us. This is an ebullient, colourful book that’s full of fun, slightly naughty rhymes about the body and bodily functions. The book is packed with nonsense, bodies and colours that are guaranteed to get kids reading it over and over and over again.

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!

Peculiar Puppies

Jenny J. Jacobsen

Learn to read with these strange but sweet animals! Some puppies have purple tongues. Some have no fur at all. Others have loads of wrinkles. And some have dreadlocks. The one thing they all have in common is that they’re really peculiar – and pretty cute, of course. This is a Young Lion book for children who have just learned to read – and love animals!

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.