Children's & YA

Wild about animals for tough kids

Anne Østgaard

Wild about Animals for Tough Kids by Anne Østgaard and Camilla Storm is a collection of fun and feisty rhymes for tough kids – and everyone else! The texts rhyme and have been written with good rhythm, which makes them good for both reading out loud and for practicing reading.

Science Madness: Crazy Experiments

Alexander H. Sandtorv

Crazy Experiments is packed full of facts, humorous illustrations, terrifying fascination, experiments you can do at home and fun facts. These are the wildest of all experiments throughout history. They are loud and explosive, crackling and slimy. They are unbelievable, weird and thoughtprovoking. There are experiments with fire (how does one make fireworks or dynamite?), electricity (can ligntning be created in a laboratory?) and medicine (what happens if you let a flea live under your skin for months?). Underneath it all is a fundamental respect and fascination for the inventiveness of humans, and how it drives the world forward. Where had we been without the experiments? Author Alexander guides the reader along the way as a kind of nutty professor who lets anything happen in his laboratory and explains which experiments can be recreated at home.Science Madness is a living, breathing introduction to science and all the crazy stuff which drives the world forward. An original series about all the wild stuff which happens in the name of science.

Everything´s OK

Ebba Eiring

Anton Doesn’t Want to Have a Bath

Amadeus Blix

Anton is big and gentle and kind and the world’s very best playmate. But once he’s set his mind on something, he can’t be budged. His family are trying with all their might to get Anton to do what they say. But will they manage to convince him? And is Anton really the only stubborn person in the family? The Anton books are suitable for readers aged two upwards.

Anton Won’t Go to Bed

Amadeus Blix

Anton is big and soft and kind and the world’s very best playmate. But when he sets his mind on something, he can’t be budged. This time, he doesn’t want to go to bed! His family try everything they can to get the big dog to do as they say. But will they manage to convince Anton? The books about Anton are funny, captivating and relatable stories for readers between the ages of 3 and 6.

Backyard Dog

Magnus Buen Halvorsen

Balal is 14 and runs a YouTube channel with three pals, where they play innocent pranks on people in the street. But traffic on the channel is pretty low, and they realise they have to do something that will really attract attention. That’s when they come up with the idea of a stunt at subway station in central Oslo at rush hour on a Friday – a so-called terror challenge. Balal isn’t sure whether this is a step too far, but his friends are already in full swing, firing up the comment field and promising to livestream the action to their subs. But the terror challenge is far from successful and has an impact on Balal’s parents, who are already burdened by their traumatic experiences. Now his father is convinced that terrorism has come to Norway and that war will follow. He builds a shelter in the flat and refuses to leave it. And even when the police quickly confirm that the action subway station was just a stunt, it does no good. Because, as his father asks, who on earth would be so idiotic as to joke about something like that? Over several hectic weeks, the story from their homeland unfolds and Balal is seriously put to the test. Backyard Dog is a fast-paced YA novel about belonging and friendship, and about carrying on with life when you are burdened by difficult histories.

Benny and the Mystery of Camp Milky Way

Tom Erik Fure

Benny and the Mystery of Camp Milky Way is the third book in the Benny Bark series. It’s the perfect book for fans of David Walliams and Tom Fletcher. For his birthday Benny receives the most incredible birthday gift: a weekend getaway at the luxurious Milky Way Hotel & Resort, situated in Tjess Valley, world-renowned for its UFO phenomena. Of course, in true Benny fashion, nothing goes according to plan when it turns out he is not, in fact, staying at a luxury hotel, but at the extremely dilapidated Camp Milky Way, where he must contend with roommates who can’t stand each other, outdoor toilets, and the resident loonies. Other things not on his birthday wish list: an unhinged horse, Evan the Ice Prince, communal showers, and mysterious fires of possible alien origin! The question is no longer: Is there alien life in Tjess Valley? The question is: Will Benny even survive his twelfth birthday?

Buffy By Is Feeling Adventurous

Ingeborg Arvola

Buffy By – the poor girl from rich Oslo – is back! Her mum Lillie has gone into hospital and nobody knows how long she’ll have to stay there. So what’s supposed to happen to Buffy and Bobby? It turns out that Lillie’s mother, Olava, lives in Northern Norway and has graciously agreed to take in the grandchildren she has never met. But Olava isn’t your average grandmother. This is a journey and a visit that will leave none of them untouched! The books about Buffy By are fun, clever, charming, inventive and exceptionally well written, and they tell a story that is entertaining, exciting and different. A critically acclaimed, award-winning middle grade series that offers plenty to laugh and talk about.

The Day goes by

Gro Dahle

Pym’s Day trudges and tramples, shoves and pushes, pesters and hassles. The Day hangs heavy on Pym's shoulders, like a sack he has to drag around with him everywhere. You have to make friends with your Day, says Grandma. You get the Day you deserve, says Mum. Smile at the Day and the Day will smile back, says Dad. But that’s easy for them to say, Pym thinks, because nobody knows how exhausting Pym’s Day is; only somebody who knows the Day can know that. Together, Pym and the Day tumble down into a place where nobody can hear them. And perhaps you need to fall into the very deepest of deep depths to work up the courage to whisper ‘Help me’. The Day is a dark, intense and poetic tale of childhood depression – a powerful picture book about how dark things can get when The Day demands too much of you.

Dance!

Haddy Njie

Dance! is a book about friendship and exclusion. But it is also a book about the love of dance. The sheer love of dance. Everyone is looking forward to the school’s winter party. ‘It’ll be such fun!’ my best friend says. ‘But I hate dancing! I can’t do it. ‘You’re too scared to try!’ ‘I CAN’T do it!’ Luckily my best friend has a plan. A plan that may cost us our friendship. Dance! is about friendship and courage. And about sometimes needing to scream. Loudly!