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Watches and Bananas
Children's Books2023 · 80 pp · Age 6+

Watches and Bananas

Lars Saabye Christensen

Every morning Otto counted the watches on display in the window of Watchmaker Dante. Otto would love to buy them all. But he can’t afford that. Even though the watches showed the time, Otto was late for school anyway. After that, Watchmaker Dante set Otto’s watch back a bit. “There you go, now you have lots of time again,” he said. Watches and Bananas is a book about Otto who’s late for school because he stops to count the watches in the window of Watchmaker Dante, about Watchmaker Dante who doesn’t have time to set all the watches, about Otto’s dad who works at the banana ripening factory – and who really wants Otto to also work there one day. Otto doesn’t want to do that, but that’s not exactly easy to say either. One of the greatest Norwegian authors, Lars Saabye Christensen, has written a novel for children, in a magnificent collaboration with one of Norway’s greatest illustrators, Stian Hole. Watches and Bananas is a thoughtful and subtle book about time, watches, friendship, and bananas. And about accepting things as they are.

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Molly is Mine
Children's Books2023 · 72 pp · Age 6 - 12

Molly is Mine

Siri Spont

New heartwarming horse series! This is the first part of the new series about Molly. This book is about what it’s like to have a horse for real. It’s not as idyllic as one might think, but it’s extremely rewarding and exciting. The series about Molly is charming and includes lovely illustrations. Perfect for girls interested in horses who are looking for a good story while practicing their reading skills.

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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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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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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Blücher’s Secret
Children's Books2022 · 144 pp · Age 9+

Blücher’s Secret

Alexander Løken

Avid Reader Award winner Alexander Løken takes us to the summer idyll of Drøbak. But all is not as it seems in the early summer sun. When crabs attack in droves and the sea radiates a dark force that threatens to pull her into its depths, it’s no wonder that Kit (14) would rather go home. When Blücher sank in Drøbak Sound on 9 April 1940, it had a mysterious passenger on board. Gottfried, a young boy with unique and terrifying powers, sat in a bulletproof iron tank. The tank—and the boy—went down with the ship, but now, after 70 years, things have started to emerge … When a neighbour asks whether Kit has experienced anything she can’t explain, she gets really scared. What does he know? What is happening in Drøbak Sound, and why now? YA horror with links back to 9 April 1940.

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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Embla
Children's Books2022 · 64 pp · Age 9+

Embla

Arild Midthun / Bjørn H. Samset

Climate researcher Bjørn H. Samset and cartoonist Arild Midthun have joined forces to create Embla, an exciting graphic novel that shows us what is happening to our planet while also giving us research-based knowledge about the choices we will have to make. Through an exciting fictional tale, Bjørn H. Samset and Arild Midthun want to share knowledge about the climate changes that our planet is going through and show what challenges we will face when choosing a strategy for the future. On a trip to New York, someone attempts to mug young blogger Embla, and suddenly she finds herself in the world of the gods and jötnar, where she encounters opponents and challenges the likes of which she could never have imagined. It is she—as a human—who must save the world. An original and important eye-opener for young readers!Midthun and Samset have accomplished the feat of turning the climate issue into an educational and visually engaging comic book.Serienett.no I was thrilled to see this book - my hopes were extremely high - and it doesn't disappoint. Wonderful work throughout. Hugely recommended. Mike Perkins

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Finally Summer, Rikka
Children's Books2022 · 160 pp · Age 9 - 12

Finally Summer, Rikka

Maiken Nylund

Finally Summer, Rikka is about being 11 years old and moving between childhood and adolescence. Heartbreak, divorce and friends who change: the stories about Rikka are important and relatable—and full of empathy and love. The summer holidays are finally here, but Jimmy has moved away and doesn’t want to be Rikka’s boyfriend anymore. Dad has to work, Liva can’t be bothered with anything, and suddenly all Rikka’s siblings have better things to do with their holidays. In the end, only Rikka goes to Grandma’s for two weeks—just like she always has. These summer holidays haven’t started at all like Rikka had thought they would! Suddenly she finds herself having to do things she doesn’t quite dare … Finally Summer, Rikka is Maiken Nylund’s fourth book about Rikka.

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Hilda Bumblevik and The People Who Disappeared
Children's Books2022 · 304 pp · Age 9 - 12

Hilda Bumblevik and The People Who Disappeared

Irmelin Persdatter Gustavsen

Hilda Bumblevik’s life is turned upside down when a sleazy man with bad intentions captures her mother’s heart. Instead of going on an awesome summer holiday they have to move to the town of Søderdal where Hilda soon notices that everything isn’t as it should be. Who is the pale man on the stairs outside the abandoned sanatorium? Why are the teachers at school so peculiar? And what is her stepfather Timian really hiding in the attic of their new house in Coffin Street? Hilda Bumblevik and The People Who Disappeared is an impressive debut novel and coming-of-age-story, full of suspense, mystery, and humour.REVIEWS A smashing debutWhat a universe of delightful characters. What a universe of humour, horror, excitement and drama. What a debut. Prepare to bite your nails, grin and laugh. Hilda Bumblevik will have you hooked in no time.FIVE/SIX STARSFredriksstad blad Pageturner for young readers(…) a very entertaining debut, and a gift for any school librarian or bookseller looking for new fodder to hungry readers. Gustavsen keeps the excitement high, and keeps the reader in the dark just long enough so they’ll keep wanting more. There’s never a dull moment. FIVE/SIX STARSBOK365.NO Thrilling horrorIt's a joy to read this book. Also for a grown-up! Gustavsen has a way with words and a linguistic excess that you can just sit back and enjoy. While the complications and mysteries pile up, Hilda opens up little pockets of air and humour with her absent-minded digressions.Klassekampen Confident thrillerThe debut is characterised by warm humour, excitement and surprising horror.Periskop.no

Karsten and Petra Build a Museum
Children's Books2022 · 32 pp · Age 3 - 6

Karsten and Petra Build a Museum

Tor Åge Bringsværd

New this year comes a book full of games, curiosity and history. Karsten and Petra are looking at an old photo album of experiences they’ve had, holidays they’ve been on and memories from their old house. Attentive readers will see themselves in this! Then Karsten has an idea: he’s going to build a museum together with Petra. They eagerly start collecting all sorts of memories, with their big sister, Siri, helping them to build “The Museum of Karsten and Petra”.Come one, come all to the grand opening!

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