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Spellbound
Children's Books2022 · 112 pp · Age 9 - 12

Spellbound

Aleksander Kirkwood Brown

What do you do when you find out that Huldra, The Nix and goblins are not urban legends invented to scare children, but actual creatures who live in the shadows of Oslo’s streets? Peter and his mum have just moved into grandpa’s apartment in Oslo after he’s sent to a care home. Peter is unhappy because he knows they will be moving again soon. Then he meets an unusual girl. She’s invisible to everyone else, but Peter can see her. And she’s not the only underground creature that walks around underground in Oslo… When a little girl next door is kidnapped – by the Draugr – Peter is pulled into a reality and a part of Oslo he didn’t know existed. But why can Peter see the underground creatures? And what does his grandpa know, but isn’t able to tell him? Spellbound is an action-packed and original urban fantasy-graphic novel for young adults. It’s the first title in a trilogy.REVIEWS«Aleksander Kirkwood Brown and Luis Guaragna have created an enchanting new series based on Norwegian folklore.»Bok365, six/six starsOslo’s shady sides«Aleksander Kirkwood Brown has established himself as one of fantasy literature’s foremost frontrunners in Norway, with particular consideration for children and teens. (…) At least I want to keep on reading the next book.»D2«That Kirkwood Brown with his background in fairy tales and Guaranga with his background in metal-like aesthetic meets in an Oslo-based emo-elf-like universe seems both brilliant and right.»EMPIRIX.COM «And it’s… really solid? Structure wise, it does all the things that a story like this is supposed to: It’s very professional. But there’s plenty of originality in the elements the book uses (instead of just copying monsters from Tolkien and Sandman, it uses Norwegian supernatural beings), and it’s surprisingly moving. Well done.»LARS.INGEBRIGTSEN.NO «… it [feels] as if I have opened the door and is standing on the threshold of a new and exciting world when I read this story. I cannot wait to see where they will go on from here, and to be better acquainted with Oslo’s ‘underground’.»SERIENETT.NO

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The Fall of the Patriarchy
Literature and Fiction / Narrative Non-fiction2021 · 104 pp

The Fall of the Patriarchy

Marta Breen / Jenny Jordahl

Through history feminists have been ridiculed and harassed all around the World. In the 18th Century well-known feminists where decapitated in the guillotines, and in the 19th Century the Suffragettes were thrown in jail. In our time feminist activists are imprisoned in countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia. Feminists are labelled as moody, angry and unattractive. Still, new generations are daring to proudly call themselves feminists. Author Marta Breen and illustrator Jenny Jordahl have through a number of books proved themselves as great communicators when it comes to the history of women. In this book they take the reader for a joyride through the cultural history of the patriarchy. With a good dose of humour the tell the stories about how men from Aristoteles to Woody Allen has described the world through the male gaze. They tell the stories of the women who through history has fought the oppression – and they rank the world’s worst sexists through times. Join us in finally taking down the patriarchy!

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Death
Children's Books2020 · 104 pp · Age 6 - 12

Death

Endre Lund Eriksen

“Oh no! A book about death, and I’m in it…” Mikkel really doesn’t want to be in a book about death. Because in books like that, people end up dying, don’t they? But when the narrator starts to tell the story, Mikkel gets curious.Why do people die? What happens in the body when people die? And what does it mean to say that the dead “return to earth”? Death is a graphic fact book that takes death seriously – in a seriously funny way.

What happened to you?
Self Help / Children's Books2020 · 216 pp · Age 9 - 12

What happened to you?

Jenny Jordahl

Janne isn’t like the rest of her family. That’s what Grandma says. The others are slim, while Janne is big. What happened to her, really? Grandma isn’t the only one who comments on Janne’s appearance. People at school do too. Janne is comfort eating and cutting herself off from others, but suddenly her parents suggest a solution to the problem: She’ll get 100 kroner for every kilo she loses. Janne goes along with the agreement and slowly but surely, she gets smaller. But does she get any happier? And does it solve her real problems? What Happened to You? is a powerful, brave and thought-provoking graphic novel about friendship, being an outsider and living with eating disorders. Jenny Jordahl (best know as the illustrator of the international bestseller Women in Battle) delivers an important and absorbing story for children and young people aged 9 and older.WINNER OF THE 2020 BRAGE PRIZE FOR BEST BOOK FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG READERS!The Brage Prize Jury said: The winner of the category Children’s and Young Adult Literature addresses serious issues which leave an impression on the reader. Yet the book is easy to read and shows great concern for – and confidence in – its young readers. This year’s winning entry is an important work that engages the reader through different techniques: The succinct dialogue between the characters is illustrated with vivid drawings, and it is intense in both form and content. Clear use of colour, non-verbal features and the visual representation of the central character’s inner life all contribute to enhancing her range of emotions. The winner of this year’s prize is an established writer and illustrator with a book that lets us get close to a child with an eating disorder. Congratulations to Jenny Jordahl for winning the Brage Prize for her graphic novel: What Happened to You? Reviews: Strong as well as entertaining book on a difficult subject.AFTENPOSTENThis book can be used as a starting point for important talks both at school and at home. NRK

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Magnus Carlsen and the Chess Killer
Literature and Fiction / Children's Books2020 · 72 pp · Age 9 - 12

Magnus Carlsen and the Chess Killer

Aleksander Kirkwood Brown

Magnus Carlsen and the Chess Killer is a crime comic about a genius killer that can only be stopped by a chess genius. The works of a serial killer is shocking Oslo, and the police stands without a clue. All of the victims are found with a chess piece in their hand, but other than that they have nothing in common. Who can solve this mystery, if not Chess Legend Magnus Carlsen? The Chess Killer enters into a cat-and-mouse-game with Magnus and police investigator Maud, but the killer always seems to be a couple of moves ahead of them.

The Sea Troll
Children's Books2020 · 56 pp · Age 6 - 9

The Sea Troll

Bjørn Ousland

In the attic at great-grandfather’s house, Pi and Peder find a map. When they look through a pair of binoculars, they see a lighthouse that doesn’t really exist. This needs investigation! Pi takes Peter and Mons the cat out in a rowing boat, and they all end up slap-bang in the middle of a fantastically exciting adventure.

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The Special Class
Children's Books2020 · 192 pp · Age 9 - 12

The Special Class

Flu Hartberg

Steven is the most popular boy in the school, and his father is the boss of the popular iBrain company. Steven has everything – even the latest version of iBrain, which lets you stay hooked up to the internet night and day without a mobile phone or PC. It’s all connected directly to your brain. One day Steven starts to behave in an uncontrollably silly way, writing obscene words on the blackboard, dancing bare-bottomed at the youth club and going into the teachers’ changing room. What’s happening to him? Against his will, Steven is moved into the famous Special Class – a small class for pupils who are different from all the others in some way or another. Steven – and all his friends – look down on the Special Class. How will he survive this? It turns out that the supernerds in the Special Class can help Steven with his mysterious and inexplicable problem. Computer specialist Ella finds out that somebody has hacked into iBrain, infected it with a virus and taken control of Steven’s brain. Who is the baddie and what is their motive? And how can the supernerds get into Steven’s brain to unmask the hacker?