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Bettina Doesn’t Believe in Santa
Children's Books2023 · 80 pp · Age 6 - 12

Bettina Doesn’t Believe in Santa

Sidsel Jøranlid

A cosy book, full of Christmas magic! Bettina is put in a difficult situation. Does Santa Claus exist? Bettina is not sure. A lovely book about a child who’s beginning to grow up, but who nonetheless really wants to believe in Santa and the magic of Christmas. Ideal for readers between 7 and 11 years old.

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Night Ninja: The Black Lion
Children's Books2023 · 48 pp · Age 3 - 6

Night Ninja: The Black Lion

Rolf Magne G. Andersen

Night Ninja: The Black Lion is an imaginative book about Martin who doesn’t like going to bed. At night, he solves a range of problems with the help of the lamp spirit Akari, who transforms him into Night Ninja and offers good advice along the way. When Martin has to go to bed, he discovers that his favourite pillow is missing. Without it he cannot possibly fall asleep! Martin must transform into the Night Ninja to sneak past the grim Knight (Daddy) to face the Black Lion (the family dog), so that he can bring back the Incredible Pillow. A delightfully tough and exciting goodnight story for everyone who likes ninjas! This is the first title in a planned series.

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Pelle Propeller: The Best Hair Salon in Town
Children's Books2023 · 40 pp · Age 3 - 6

Pelle Propeller: The Best Hair Salon in Town

Christine Sandtorv

Pelle Propeller likes to organise, fix, and do fun things. Today he wants to start a hair salon, and he gets big sister Henny and best friend Bo on board. It doesn’t take long before the queue goes down the street outside the salon. Pelle creates crazy and imaginative haircuts for one customer after the other, but what happens when a boy without a single strand of hair on his head shows up?

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The Knights Go For Gold
Children's Books2023 · 56 pp · Age 3 - 9

The Knights Go For Gold

Bjørn F. Rørvik

The two little knights are back, just in time for the large knight tournament. And just like last time there is some seriousness beneath all the silliness: Why can’t girls do the same as boys? And does one HAVE to be tough and brave, just because one is a boy? The Middle Ages are almost at an end, after all! It’s the annual knight tournament in Klampenburg, and Sir Rosebush and Sir Bang have been training for a whole year. They’ve probably snuck away a bit too because it’s a little dangerous to do both sword fighting and archery – not to mention jousting. (That’s when someone tries to push the other one down from the horse with a long pole.) They don’t really want to take part, but Princess Begonia does! The problem is just that the King has said she’s not allowed to take part because she’s a girl. So the two little knights must help her to secretly prepare for the tournament. They have to train her for the exercises and find armour that will hide her face. Neither of those things are easy! Bjørn F. Rørvik is a master at silly humour with a good undertone, his stories are a joy to read out loud and in this book there’s loads of fun for children and adults. Camilla Kuhn has her own twist on the knights – they are recognisable, but still a little bit different from last time.

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Sofia finds a song
Children's Books2023 · 40 pp · Age 3 - 6

Sofia finds a song

Marit Larsen

In the middle of the hubbub of the busy city she lives in, Sofia discovers a mysterious melody. It stands out from all the other noises, it shines, it lights up, it has its own colour, it sneaks up through the city like a magical wind with a melody in it. It creeps through the streets and up through the floor she stands on, inside the soles of her shoes, it tickles her toes, her feet must dance, they are not able to stop, it’s as if the song is dancing with her rather than the other way around. But where is the sound coming from? In Sofia Finds a Song we’re taken on an adventure to find a melody with magnetic powers. Because when you find your own song, it is yours forever.

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Proud
Children's Books2023 · 128 pp · Age 9+

Proud

Benjamin Baarli Silseth

Proud is a book that celebrates diversity and uniqueness. Proud is about being Queer, both now and before, about how to be a friend and an ally, about gender identity, love and sexuality, and about important people who have stood at the forefront of the fight for gay rights. Why do we celebrate Pride? What's legal and illegal? Is queer love actually different? And what do you say if a friend confides in you about their own sexuality?With this book, the goal is to break taboos and to make all readers feel more safe in themselves and pride in who they are.Author Benjamin Silseth is a psychologist, he is queer, and has a strong passion for children's and youth's mental health.

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Subwoolfer: Operation Grandma
Children's Books2023 · 168 pp · Age 6 - 9

Subwoolfer: Operation Grandma

Ben Adams

Join space wolves Jim and Keith on their quest to Grandma's house, where you can eat as much as you like! Jim and Keith live on the moon, with nothing to eat but bananas. One day, an astronaut from earth crash-lands his space pod, and the hungry wolves listen carefully to his story about Grandma's house, where you can eat as much as you like. Grandma just gets happier the more you eat! Before they can return to Earth and Grandma’s house, the trio must now travel through space to collect the pieces of the astronaut's broken spaceship. They start a crazy journey from planet to planet, visiting King Loo Roll on the Toilet Planet, snowball-throwing elves on the Christmas Planet, and a creepy Subspider on the Spooky Planet before setting their coordinates for Earth. But where on Earth could grandma be? Is she even alive, after all these years? And what happens when the astronaut discovers that the wolves have actually been planning on eating his grandma? Subwoolfer: Operation Grandma is the first instalment of a hilariously crazy comic book series by Ben Adams and Martin Aas (ill.). Perfect for readers ages 6–9 and fans of Dave Pilkey.

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Close up: Life under water
Children's Books2023 · 144 pp · Age 6 - 12

Close up: Life under water

Jannicke Wiik-Nielsen / Dag O. Hessen / Line Renslebråten

See life under water with completely new eyes in this non-fiction book for the whole family! See pictures like you've never seen before - look a tadpole in the eyes, or take a look at their teeth. The unique images are magnified up to 15,000 times through a special technique. Here you will learn how jellyfish poop, and how crabs talk to each other. If you dare, get close and familiar with their claws! Did you know that crabs both smell and taste with their claws? Or that there are crabs who can climb trees? Or that some shrimp actually brush fish teeth? Incredibly, tiny zooplankton found in the North Sea, no bigger than a grain of rice, can form swarms so large they can be seen from space. And did you know that there are animals without heads? They are not as scary as you might think: Starfish are one of them. You've probably seen them, but hardly as close up as you can here... The pictures were taken in a very special microscope by researcher and scientist Jannicke Wiik-Nielsen. She has won photography awards for her pictures, and the texts are written in collaboration with Dag O. Hessen and Line Renslebråten, renowned communicators of nature science for both children and adults. This is a beautiful book full of facts that the whole family will enjoy. In addition to the special pictures, there are drawings of frogs, fish and crabs as we are used to seeing them. An exciting and educational book about an important and contemporary topic. A fact book that takes children's curiosity seriously. NOMINATED TO THE BRAGE PRIZE FOR BEST NON-FICTION BOOK FOR CHILDREN

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Cool Rescue Rides
Children's Books2023 · 56 pp · Age 3 - 6

Cool Rescue Rides

Line Halsnes

After the successful Cool Machines and Cool Dinosaurs – here comes Cool Rescue Rides! Children love cool rides – and in this book you will find seven of the coolest emergency vehicles: fire engine, ambulance, police car, rescue helicopter, police motorcycle, lifeboat, and tow truck. In addition to this you get a closer look at the first aid kit – a very important part of all the seven vehicles. Drivers Ida and Hans tell us all about the different emergency vehicles, and we get to come along on a mission. It’s important to get somewhere quickly in order to help, and luckily all these vehicles have blue lights and sirens! Line Halsnes is an expert at drawing vehicles and machines with all the correct and important details. She takes the young readers seriously, and shows exactly how the vehicles look both inside and out. Her drawings are colourful, detailed and accurate, and readers big and small will gain new knowledge from this book. It’s also a book suited for multiple re-reads!

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Beasts
Children's Books2023 · 96 pp · Age 9+

Beasts

Ingvild Bjerkeland

What happens when society suddenly breaks down, when strange and scary creatures roam the countryside, and no human can be trusted? Abdi (13) and his little sister Alva (5) are running through the forest. Civilization has collapsed. Their mother and countless others have been murdered by terrifying beasts. No electricity or fuel is left. And the people that are still alive, are hiding – from the beasts and from each other. We follow Abdi and Alva for a few, intense days through the forest and towards the sea, with the beasts at their heels. Who can they trust along the way? And will they get to safety? Beasts is Cormac McCarthy’s The Road for children: Shudderingly creepy and incredible – and easy to read. An original thriller for readers 10 years and older. WINNER OF ARKS BOKHANDLERPRIS (ARK'S CHILDREN'S LITERATURE PRIZE) NOMINATED TO THE AVID READER AWARD NOMINATED TO THE NORDIC COUNCIL CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE PRIZE 24 Horror for children gets darkerThe dilemma in «Beasts» is actually that it's so good and believable.AFTENPOSTENWhat a story!«Beasts» is one of the highlights within children's literature this spring.BOK365, five/six stars ... a quick, enjoyable read ...THE NEW YORK TIMES (US) ... Bjerkeland evokes the failed adult world, the injustice that plays itself out on children. The story’s brevity and abrupt forcefulness, and the characters’ stalwart courage and love, make this tale unusually compelling. HORN BOOKS (US), starred review Chilling.... «Beasts» combines the timelessness of a fairy tale with the stark immediacy of contemporary dystopian fiction.FOREWORD (US), starred review Spare, thrilling.... A sense of urgency simmers beneath every line of prose.... Beasts will appeal to readers of survival classics such as Hatchet with its realistic illustrations of Abdi’s dogged problemsolving, but will also please those who enjoy stories with supernatural antagonists in pursuit of their prey, like «The Walking Dead» or «The Last of Us».BOOKPAGE (US) [An] atmospheric and harrowing horror novel.... Readers will enjoy the quick pacing and postapocalyptic Odyssey feel of this brief but powerful tale.PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (US) Drips with eerie atmosphere and moves at a taut pace. Abdi’s first-person narrative balances the unsettling events with his poignant thoughts and feelings about caring for his younger sister, whose irrepressible attitude is a welcome lightness in this disquieting tale.... Middle-grade readers looking for something scary but not too gory will appreciate the mood cultivated here.BOOKLIST (US) [For] those just beginning to learn the [horror] genre, this is a magnificent introduction—spare, tense, gory just at the edges, and tightly focused on the siblings, creating a heightened sense of connection and investment in their survival.... Chilling.BCCB (US) Younger readers will be rapt; all will find the pervasive air of distress that permeates the tale palpable.... Highly appealing for a great many horror readers, new and old.KIRKUS (US) Bjerkeland walks a careful line between being mindful of her audience’s age while refusing to shrink from the truth. Filled with tension and a few heart-pounding moments, Beasts never fully strays into the darker recesses like its postapocalyptic adult cousins The Road or I Who Have Never Known Men, yet it also resists easy answers or a storybook ending.WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS (US) It is a nearly perfect novel for young readers. I wish I had written it myself.NSK (Sweden) It is deeply touching, believable and full of suspense. The ending is left open. Beasts have the potential to stay on the reader's mind for a long time.BTJ (Sweden) [...] with Beasts she has undoubtedly delivered one of the most exciting books of the year.DAGENS NYHETER (Sweden) This should not be missed!Vi läser (Sweden) One of BOK365's best books of 2023The apocalyptic science fiction novel, with horror elements dispersed throughout, is guaranteed to keep young, impatient readers captivated from the first line. It will also get them to reflect over some of our huge current global challenges. One of Aftenposten's best books of 2023Beasts by Ingvild Bjerkeland is reminiscent of the classic The Road by Cormac McCarthy. The children in Beasts have seen their mother killed by animals that are on the brink of eradicate humanity. They also meet someone willing to sacrifice themselves for them. It is really intriguing in a rather scary way.

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The Key
Literature and Fiction / Children's Books2023 · 120 pp · Age 9 - 12

The Key

Aleksander Kirkwood Brown

Two Hulders are trying to steal Tyri’s medallion, a key she has promised her father to protect at all costs. Tyri and Peter realize something is going on, and they must hide the key. At the midnight market in Oslo's Royal Park, they meet Bhurai, who reveals that the key protects the Floral, an ancient and powerful magical artifact. If the Floral's power is unleashed, it could have devastating consequences for the world. Together, Peter and Tyri descend further into the underground city, facing unknown dangers in their quest to protect the artifact. This is the second book in a critically acclaimed urban and magical graphic novel about friendship and commitment, based on fairytales, folklore and intense action. Aleksander Kirkwood Brown is skilled at creating exciting and original stories, based mostly on fairytales and Norse folklore. Kirkwood Brown is original in the sense that he combines the vernacular folklore traditions with an urban, modern story and personal challenges which contemporary readers can recognise. Luis Guaragna is a well-known and talented graphic novel illustrator with an international career. In The Undercities series he wishes to combine his own Italian-Argentinian background with the Norwegian world of fiction. Both his illustrations and characters are rich with traces of folkloric traditions – emphasising that the population of the Underground City is just as diverse as those of us who live above ground. Reviews «The second book in the Undercities series makes the reader thirst for more. ... a refreshing and different fantasy title.»Empirix «Undercities 2: The Key does exactly what the middle part of a fantasy trilogy should do; it sharpens the conflicts, expands the universe, and pumps up the tension ahead of the grand finale.»D2 «Magical realism is a literary term, but with The Undercities series one may be able to launch a new term: realistic magic. Brown and Guaragna manage to bring people and supernatural beings to life in a very convincing way.»Serienett.no

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Edward Rubikon's Mysteries: Time Vampires
Children's Books2022 · 176 pp · Age 6 - 12

Edward Rubikon's Mysteries: Time Vampires

Aleksander Kirkwood Brown

Ghostbusters meets tranger Things in a suspense series for readers aged 9+Edward’s best friends, Kasper and Nadira, have disappeared. And the weird thing is that no one remembers them, not even their parents. Except for Edward, and now he is the only one who can save them! Edward throws himself into a dangerous mission with time travel and extraterrestrial beings. But how do you change something that’s already happened? And what is a time vampire anyway?Edward Rubikon brilliantly combines readable and well-written stories, and a relatable universe with great characters and exciting stories - told via texts, images and comic strip chapters.

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