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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!

Volcanoes

Martin von Dürenfeldt

Volcanoes are thrilling and mysterious. Have you ever shaken a fizzy drink and then opened it? A volcano works a bit like that when it erupts, spraying out lava from the top. Here beginner readers will learn what volcanoes are, how they work and where they can be found.

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.

Birthday Trouble for Leona

Anneli Klepp

Leona! She comes up with the weirdest ideas and is always getting into trouble. In the third book in this series, Leona decides to give the headmaster a birthday present. And what could be better than a real-life wildcat? Put together a wild cat, the headmaster’s huge beard and an enormous cream cake and what do you get? That’s right – complete chaos! Come along on a series of adventures for 6- to 9-year olds who love fun and lively tales.

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.

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Joke Lion 8 – ABC

Eighth book in the Joke Lion series! Laughter is a fantastic tool for learning to read. That’s the thinking behind this book of jokes based on the ABC: children will learn the alphabet and get a joke into the bargain. There’s a joke for every letter, all brilliantly illustrated by Elisabeth Moseng. V is for Vegetable Which vegetables sound cold but are really hot? Chili peppers. This is a My First Reading Lion aimed at the 6-9 age group.

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.

Benny and the Ghosts of Nowhere

Tom Erik Fure

Benny and the Ghosts of Nowhere finds Benny and the gang swept up in a new adventure brimming with humor, chills, and romance. Benny's world is turned upside down when his crush, Ken, arrives for a prolonged sleepover. Additionally, Benny has a new nemesis in the form of Magda-Rose’s ruthless daughter-in-law, who has sold Magda-Rose’s mansion and sent her off to an awful retirement home. With Magda-Rose quickly losing hope and withering away, Benny must do everything in his power to save her, vanquish her horrible daughter-in-law, come to terms with his feelings for Ken, and get rid of the new occupants of Magda-Rose’s mansion. And surely nobody wants to live in a haunted house, do they?

Who Poisoned Hennie the Whale?

Endre Lund Eriksen / Gisle Normann Melhus

Hennie the Whale is terribly ill and when it turns out that somebody has poisoned her, the Animal Detective Bureau takes on the case. Along with retired master detective Carl Berner and hyperactive mink Mirja, junior detective Nora tries to find out who’s behind it. The trail points in different directions, and maybe there isn’t just one criminal but several. A really, really gross and funny crime story from a place you’d never believe anybody could live – or at least not criminals.