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Cool Machines
Children's Books2021 · 56 pp · Age 3 - 6

Cool Machines

Line Halsnes

The seven coolest machines you’ll find between the covers of a book! Dumper-trucks and tractors, diggers and combine harvesters and many more. Colourful, detailed and accurate – this book will show you what the machines do and what they look like. Line Halsnes takes the very youngest budding engineers seriously, showing us big working vehicles and machines just as they are, in a way that will make readers curious and a little bit wiser. WINNER OF THE NORWEGIAN CULTURE DEPARTMENT’S NON-FICTION PRIZE 2021 NOMINATED TO THE BRAGE PRIZE 2021

Rights soldSold to 8 territories
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Honestly
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2020 · 400 pp

Honestly

Kirsten Holtmon Resaland / Astrid Nylander Almaas

The ultimate young people’s guide to coping with life and mental health. Honestly is a thorough book that provides young people with knowledge and advice that can help ease their path through life. Read, among others, about identity, feelings and thoughts, self-image, body and sex, you and other people, when life gets tough and mental illnesses.Is there such a thing as dangerous thoughts? What makes You You, and what are your best qualities? Can falling in love change us? And what do you do if a friend is having troubled times? What is the difference between being afraid and having anxiety? What can you do about gossip, bad mouthing and general drama? What are sexual fantasies? How do we react when something really painful happens? Why do we believe in fake news? Is it normal to be grumpy for no reason? Everybody has stuff going on beneath the surface. There’s nothing wrong with that – it’s normal; and it’s what makes us humans different and exciting. This is a book that you do not have to read from cover to cover. You can simply look topics that you might be interested in - or have a need for. You can read about topics like Identity, Feelings and thoughts, Self-Image, Body and Sex. In Honestly you get thorough answers from a psychologist and a doctor, talking straight forwardly about being a human being. It is also a great reference book for anyone close to young people today; Parents, teachers and others, who want to know more and understand. Winner of RIKSMÅLSPRISEN 2020. Astrid Nylander Almaas (b. 1975) is Head Physician at the Ahus-hospital in Oslo, specialized in Paediatrics. She has a doctorate in how nutrition affects the development of the brain in Children. Since 2016 she has been part of the NRK TV-show "What is Wrong with You?".Kirsten Holtmon Resaland (b.1980) is a specialist in the psychiatry of children and young adults and has worked with the psychic health of youth for many years.The book is illustrated by Kristine A. Sand.

Rights soldSold to 5 territories
How to Start School
Children's Books2020 · 72 pp · Age 3 - 6

How to Start School

Anna Fiske

Starting school is a major event in children’s life. There’s a lot to cope with in practical, social and emotional terms, and it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. What do you have to put in your school bag? How long will you have to sit still? What really happens during break? In How to Start School, Anna Fiske deals with big and small questions about starting school. The book is heart-warming, inclusive and takes children’s emotions seriously while easing fears about the huge transition from pre-school to first grade. Anna Fiske received glowing reviews for How to Make a Baby and in this related book, she does what she knows best of all: talks to children on their own terms. A must for all pre-schoolers!

Rights soldSold to 11 territories
How to start school
Children's Books2020 · 40 pp · Age 3 - 6

How to start school

Anna Fiske

An activity book filled with coloring, playing with the alphabet and numbers, a labyrinth, testing the memory and much, much more. This book is a perfect match with Anna Fiske´s book How do you start school - a book for all pre-schoolers! CE-merket: Egnet for barn i alle aldre

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Vikings in 1-2-3
Children's Books2020 · 72 pp · Age 6 - 12

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.

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Animal Life
Children's Books2020 · 40 pp · Age 6 - 9

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.

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More warriors
Children's Books2020 · 56 pp · Age 6 - 9

More warriors

Steffen Sørum

More warriors tells the history of war from when gun powder was invented, until the Second World War. Readers can learn about ten warriors from across the world, both known and lesser-known warriors, and how they formed history.

Rights soldSold to Denmark
Close up: Insects and bugs!
Children's Books2020 · Age 6 - 12

Close up: Insects and bugs!

Jannicke Wiik-Nielsen / Dag O. Hessen / Ole Mathismoen

Did you ever look a spider in the eye? Or check out the trunk of a mosquito? Or discovered the amazing structure of a butterfly wing, or seen the powerful jaws of a ladybug? Get a look at insects, closer than ever before, through pictures that will take your breath away. Scientist Jannicke Wiik-Nielsen uses a microscope to take these highly original pictures. She has won awards for her pictures, and they have been part of international exhibitions. She has written the informative texts in cooperation with renowned writers Ole Mathismoen and Dag O. Hessen, authors of a number of books for both children and adults about nature and science. The texts are written for children, but this is just as much a coffee table book that the entire family will enjoy. As well as the fascinating pictures, there are drawings of the insects they way we are used to see them. This is a book full of facts about insects and bugs, taking the curiosity of children seriously.

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How do you make a baby?
Children's Books2019 · 80 pp · Age 3 - 12

How do you make a baby?

Anna Fiske

In her latest non-fiction book for young readers, Anna Fiske deals with a question all children are curious about: How do you make a baby? Using playful, brightly coloured illustrations, Anna Fiske answers the question in the book's title with perfect precision, providing parents and children with abrilliant starting point for further discussion. How do you make a baby? is informational, funny and warm, and is suitable for children aged 4 and up.Shockingly direct! It is so elegantly done, so nice and easy, warm and with humour as well as intelligence. This should win Anna Fiske even more awards.DAGBLADET ****** Honest and amazing!How do you make a Baby? gives a proper answer to the question asked by the title - without nonsense, but in a cheerful way. An undertone of wonder and thankfulness for life follow us all the way through. Anna Fiske has made a complete non-fiction about life that include us all. VG ******Anna Fiske does not go the long way around when she tells us how babies are made. She offers fun education for shy parents and curious children. It is unusual to see this kind of uncensored illustrations in a book for children. But why not call things by their name? Fiske shows what happens during intercourse, and also tell us that not everyone can have children the natural way. IVF, insemination and adoption all get their explanation. NRK

Rights soldSold to 18 territories
WARRIORS
Children's Books2019 · 48 pp · Age 6 - 9

WARRIORS

Steffen Sørum

Warriors and weapons have always fascinated us. In Warriors, readers can learn about ten warriors who made the world less safe and left their mark on world history. Steffen Sørum simplifies history and spices things up with surprising, warlike facts. In this book we find warrior history from the Stone Age to the Knights Templar Crusades. We also find out what is special about the Samurai and the Vikings. The books is vividly illustrated by Jørn S. Jamtli.

Rights soldSold to Denmark
The world’s cutest
Children's Books2019 · 48 pp · Age 6 - 9

The world’s cutest

Martin von Dürenfeldt

Perfect for beginner readers aged 6 to 9 who want to find out fun facts about cute animals. Which is the world's sweetest animal ? A kitten, or maybe a fennec fox or a Japanese flying squirrel? There are lots of ways of being sweet. The animals in this book are large and small, round and thin, brightly coloured or black as coal. They fly, swim, climb, throw snowballs. This book will teach new facts to adults and children alike. The My First Reading Lion series offers books for the youngest readers – those who have learnt their alphabet and can read a bit.

Rights soldSold to Denmark and Faroe Islands
Real-life monsters
Children's Books2019 · 136 pp · Age 6 - 12

Real-life monsters

Line Renslebråten

All the world’s yuckiest animals squashed between the covers of a book! You’ll get to see and read about monsters you hardly knew existed – if you dare. Because the world is full of poison, slime, spikes and claws. Illustrated throughout, easy to read and suitable for animal lovers aged 6 and over.

Rights soldSold to China and Denmark