Rights catalogue

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.

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.

What's It Like To Be A Grown-up?

Anna Fiske

In What’s it Like to Be a Grown-Up? Anna Fiske addresses questions about adult life, big and small. Can grown-ups eat chocolate whenever they feel like it? Can grown-ups stay up all night? Why do grown-ups have to earn money and what kind of jobs can you do when you’re a grown-up? The book is warm-hearted, inclusive and funny, allying children’s fears about becoming adults and taking on new duties and responsibilities. Deep down, maybe grown-ups aren’t so very different from children. This book is a must for anybody who loved How Do You Make a Baby? and How Do You Start School? Smart book for children about being adult “If anyone were to ask me what it’s like to be grown-up, I would be at a loss for words. Anna Fiske, on the other hand, goes to task with full vigor. … she has found her niche, in the interplay of facts and fun, enlightenment and engagement. For these are books where the children can actively participate themselves, with their own creativity and experiences.” NRK "Anna Fiske has written the best children's book of the year." ADRESSEAVISEN “With colorful and bright illustrations, accompanied by small, enlightening comments, we are introduced to a diverse world of grown-ups with humor and playfulness. (…) What’s it like to be a grown-up? is an including and empathetic non-fiction illustrated book.” JURY’S STATEMENT, BRAGE PRIZE NOMINATION FOR BEST CHILDREN’S BOOK (2021)

Ancient Egypt

Eldrid Johansen

Come along on an exciting voyage to Egypt in the olden days. You’ll encounter pharaohs and pyramids, sphynxes and hieroglyphics. In Ancient Egypt, people believed in life after death. But you had to be on your best behaviour while you were alive and pass difficult tests after you were dead. You couldn’t cheat either – because your heart would give you away. And what was happening here in the North while the Egyptians were learning about writing and culture? Totally thrilling material for kids who have cracked the reading code!

Disgusting

Alexander H. Sandtorv

Slimy snot, stinky farts, squirting diarrhoea and the sound of a knife scraping a plate. The world is full of disgusting things. But what are some really disgusting things? And why are they disgusting? The reader will find the answers in this book. But it comes with a warning! If you can’t cope with reading about truly disgusting, repulsive, stinky, slimy stuff, you must not buy this book! The book is repulsively illustrated by Linn Eielsen who has clearly channelled her inner stinking and anally fixated nine-year-old. The resulting illustrations are… well… nauseating.

Either or

Would you rather eat your nails each time you cut them, or eat your hair each time you cut it? Either or? What would you rather? This book is filled with dilemmas, where all of the options are completely insane!

Peculiar Puppies

Jenny J. Jacobsen

Learn to read with these strange but sweet animals! Some puppies have purple tongues. Some have no fur at all. Others have loads of wrinkles. And some have dreadlocks. The one thing they all have in common is that they’re really peculiar – and pretty cute, of course. This is a Young Lion book for children who have just learned to read – and love animals!

Everyone Has to Sleep

Lena Lindahl

Fun and surprising facts about animals’ sleeping patterns! Did you know that bats sleep upside down? Or that the parrot fish uses a sleeping bag? Or that guinea pigs sleep with their eyes open? In Everyone Has to Sleep you’ll meet lots of different animals and find out how they sleep. It’s totally wild and weird that there are so many different ways of sleeping.

Weird Facts About Europe

Håkon Forfod Sønneland

This is the ultimate guide to weird laws and customs in the different countries of Europe: all the things you’ve ever wondered about, or didn’t even know you were wondering about, when it comes to our neighbour countries. Did you know that the Olympic Games come from Greece? And that all the competitors originally competed naked? Or that chocolate milk was invented by a man in Ireland? Or that in Switzerland you’re not allowed to own just one guinea pig. Håkon Sønnenland calls himself an artist of ideas. That’s probably because he has so many peculiar ideas himself. You can read about some of them in this book. The book has lively illustrations by Jens A. Larsen Aas.

123 for tough kids

Anne Østgaard

Anne Østgaard and Egil Nyhus have made a collection of fun, cool counting poems for tough kids – and most other kids too! The texts rhyme and are simply constructed with good rhythms that make them perfect both for reading out loud and for practising reading, counting and calculating.