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Samira and the Skeletons
Children's Books2014 · 40 pp · Age 3 - 6

Samira and the Skeletons

Camilla Kuhn

Samira strongly protests when her teacher tells her that everybody has a skeleton inside them. 'Not me!' Samira declares. And not her best friend Frida, either. The rest of the day is horrible. To think that Samira and everyone around her is walking around with a skeleton inside them! It doesn’t bear thinking about. Luckily Mummy has some advice. She lays Samira down on the kitchen table and fetches a bucket and some tools. Surely Samira is happy now? A playful, witty and ever-so-slightly scary picture book from Camilla Kuhn. “Kuhn has a wonderful perception of the people she draws [...] Kuhn is familiar with the art of making things bigger, presenting exaggerated close-ups and shamelessly cutting images. The result is funny illustrations where the teacher is no more than a pair of legs, only to appear on the next page as a cruel monster that won’t stop lecturing about the wonders of the human skeleton. Kuhn’s illustrations and text almost seem to follow a child’s imaginative thought process – they are unregulated and whimsical. A book which is both warm and enthralling.”Numer

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DUST
Children's Books2014 · 48 pp · Age 3 - 9

DUST

Rune Johan Andersson

Where does dust really come from? This is the big question in this intriguing picture book. The young ask questions and wonder about things while the grownups explain and try to argue that dust shouldn’t be wiped away. But this story has a disturbing and unexpected ending. Rune Johan Andersson has his own unique way of approaching his subject matter, both in terms of content and form. Many of his books have a mixture of coloured and black and white drawings. The same also applies to Støv.

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DO YOU WANT TO HEAR A SECRET?
Children's Books2014 · 40 pp · Age 3 - 9

DO YOU WANT TO HEAR A SECRET?

Kaia Linnea Dahle Nyhus

Just imagine how many secrets there are! There are little secrets and big secrets. There are painful secrets and secrets you must never, ever tell anyone. Dad has a secret about Granddad. Granddad thinks that he has a secret, but I know what it is. Even animals have secrets. And I also have a very secret secret. Vil du høre en hemmelighet? is the clever and inquisitive debut picture book from Kaia Dahle Nyhus. A book which looks, perceives and thinks from a child’s perspective. ‘Kaia Dahle Nyhus is an important newcomer among Norwegian creators of children’s books. [...] She received the Norwegian Ministry of Culture's illustration award for her work on Håpe, sa gåsa by Gro Dahle. She continues to impress after creating both the text and illustrations for her new book. The illustrations that carry the story, but the text is also beautifully stripped down to the bare essentials. [...] Kaia Dahle Nyhus has delivered a unified and beautiful picture book, which, although written from a child's perspective, is also wonderful for adult readers.’HAMAR ARBEIDERBLAD ‘It is the world of children that provides the setting for this simple yet clever story of a first-person narrator who is exploring the world and, in particular, what it means to have secrets. The concept of secrets is elaborated on with child-like cunning... And then there is the book’s punch line, the final secret that the first-person narrator has, her greatest personal secret that she dares to share with us.’TØNSBERG BLAD ‘This concept book’s strength is its open, playful and inquisitive handling of many different secrets. It will fascinate both those reading and those being read to. [...] The secret that is told on the last page is not just any secret. There is something appealingly reckless about it. [...] The texts are simple, the illustrations are stylised and expressive, the colours are vivid and the characters are clearly characterised through the use of patterns and shapes.’BARNEBOKKRITIKK.NO

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VOLCANO ISLAND
Children's Books2014 · 48 pp · Age 3 - 9

VOLCANO ISLAND

Jill Moursund

Growing up isn’t easy. Especially when you get old enough to be away from your mum and dad. There’s a lot to gain and a lot to lose. And it’s kind of sad. This is what Lara discovers when she travels with her parents to a tropical island where they are working as volcanologists. While they climb the volcano to do their research, Lara has to stay put with her babysitter – an older, local woman who can’t speak a word of Norwegian. Lara sneaks out one night to find her parents, but loses her way. Luckily, a huge monster shows up who is also looking for his mother! Jill Moursund has written and illustrated a wonderful story about growing up and the first tiny yet very difficult steps towards independence. ‘The illustrations are beautiful and clever, put together as a hand-painted collage and with colours that change from dark to light and delicate. I particularly like the atmospheric night pictures: the dark forest with the strange animals and starry sky that has exciting, almost luminous details.’MAGIFABRIKKEN.NO

THE ISLAND
Children's Books2014 · 64 pp · Age 3 - 9

THE ISLAND

Eli Hovdenak

Bettina and Bertil are going fishing. They’re really looking forward to it. They row around at sea and find themselves in the most bizarre situations without even realising. The sea is full of large and small animals such as elephants, crocodiles and sea trolls. When they fall into the crocodile’s mouth they think they are in a Cave full of stalactites. The elephant’s trunk is just a bridge to them, and when they head back without any fish, Bertil says: ’At least that will please the fish, Bettina.’ The funniest thing about this book is that the reader sees things completely differently from Bertil and Bettina, and feels both powerful and worried about them. But everything Works out and everyone is happy. Bertil and Bettina are two very sweet, scruffy birds of uncertain origin, with large beaks and caps. The text comprises only dialogue between them. Eli Hovdenak’s illustrations and writingare both surreal and funny. ‘Funny, imaginative and a joy to behold [...] The way in which the illustrations and text contradict each other is effective on many levels. It will appeal to a child’s sense of critique and elevate the young reader. They will understand that the good-natured animals are misinterpreting everything and take great delight in correcting them! The disparity between the text and illustrations is very funny indeed.’DAGBLADET ‘This new picture book by Eli Hovdenak radiates assurance and trust in the art of living. [...] A story about how everything tends to work out despite all of the dangers. And that is undoubtedly what life is like for many of us: we live in fear yet are unaware of most of the dangers, and things generally work out for the best. [...] [The illustrations], with their diffuse contours and pale colours are perfect for this story.’VÅRT LAND‘After 30 years as a painter, artist Eli Hovdenak has finally found her niche as a creator of children’s books. This is a lavish picture book that can be read by children of all ages: as a comic adventure story in a sort of Lilliputian tradition, as satire on the topic of marriage or as a highly entertaining and humoristic story – a cheerful piece of “music” in the finest watercolours. She is also in the process of creating new picture books.’BARNEBOKKRITIKK.NO

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Anna's Heaven
Children's Books2013 · 48 pp

Anna's Heaven

Stian Hole

On a day in which everything aches and spikes fall from the skies, Anna turns the world on its head. She takes her daddy on a fantastic journey all the way to the bottom of the sky where the invisible ones live. Daddy is careworn and quiet, and Anna helps both herself and her daddy through the most difficult of days. Annas himmel is an exceptionally beautiful book about overcoming grief, succeeding in this without becoming an overly sad or sentimental tale. Stian Hole is one of our foremost picture book artists, and Annas himmel is a work of art, both in terms of text and illustrations. ‘Stian Hole communicates the great life-changing questions with huge creative seriousness and moving poetic lightness of touch. ... These are images which one can never finish with, so multi-layered that one could read this book hundreds of times, one after another, and constantly discover new meanings... Hole combines wonder, unease and love in an utterly readable way. Always, with precisely measured amounts of humour and gravity. ... Hole brings the children along on a brave and poetic journey and takes them seriously as thoughtful, inquiring human beings. This is a curriculum for growing up. ... Let all children have a share in Hole’s universe.’VG ‘An exceptionally beautiful work by Stian Hole. ... One of our most frequently awarded writers of picture books and one who doesn’t worry about pleasing others. That attitude makes for good literature. An outstandingly beautiful as well as meaningful picture book. ... the visual and verbal contents of Annas himmel fuse as the sense of the words and the images are seen together.’ Dagbladet ‘Hole’s masterly way of addressing you through his images offers comfort about the resting-place of the dead. ... readers who want to study the details will have many happy hours ahead and will also find visual references to Alice in Wonderland. Hole’s work is rich in both emotional and visual symbolism but, above all, his picture books are exciting and interesting.’ Aftenposten ‘Awesomely beautiful … Few Norwegian creators of picture books have ever reached Sian Hole’s recognition. His books about Garmann come close to being modern classics. Now, with Annas himmel, Hole has delivered another masterpiece. ... Stian Hole has never created anything more colourful. And he has never let his imagination as free as he has here, even though the recognisable links to ordinary life constantly run through the illustrations. Also, Hole’s text has never been sparser, as he offers more and more freedom to us who look and read; he challenges the imaginative capacity of both young and old and points to new routes into the most marvellous experiences. ... Everything hangs together and is so neatly done that it is a pleasure to be one of his readers and so constantly discover new links, new possibilities of interpretation, new details.’ NRK P2 ‘Stian Hole’s easily recognisable world of images as seen on book covers or in children’s books is often so beautiful that I gasp. The great stories about the boy called Garmann with the intensely detailed illustrations that children and adults value so highly – far beyond the borders of this country. ... When the world becomes so absurd that it feels as if someone “makes nails rain from the sky”, the child attempts to guide the adults away from the dangerous reality. ... Together, they travel floating in the air and swimming through the world of Anna’s imagination. Like Alice and the author [Lewis] Carroll in Wonderland, like Tinker Bell and Peter Pan in Neverland. Young and old will find endless discoveries and opportunities to think things over.’ Drammens Tidende ‘Miraculous, wildly imaginative and fantastic … The book is rich in symbolism and strikingly lovely to look at – and amusing. ... Everything is fitted into an exquisite colour range, allowing each new page to present its own world while at the same time the unity, visual as well as narrative, is always maintained. ... For children, Annas himmel will offer an adventure to enjoy and for adults, a unique opportunity to travel with them on a journey of the imagination.' Vårt Land‘Norway’s Stian Hole does it once more. He has written and illustrated a philosophical and seductive picture book for children of all ages. His new picture book strikes just that special Hole note. … Much has been written about death in books for children. But no one writes and creates picture books like Hole does. Also, about death. … Hope is there on every page. Both in words and images.’ Nordhyske Stiftstidende – Six out of six ‘Stian Hole’s breathtakingly beautiful picture book is about the mother who has died and left behind her restless daughter Anna and her father who has grown rigid with grief. The detailed illustrations are unrivalled – like Edward Hopper images with added northern light. The book is not easy-going and not recommended for readers with weak nerves, but on the other hand, is utterly visionary.’ Politiken ‘Stian Hole’s lovely picture book Annas himmel shines a light into the tempting darkness of grief ... Despite the wealth of detail in the collages and the texts there is not one ounce of the accidental or superfluous in Annas himmel.’ Information

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Jake Is A Kind Snake
Children's Books2013 · 40 pp · Age 3 - 9

Jake Is A Kind Snake

Camilla Kuhn

Jake is a very ordinary viper who works at the pharmacy and travels home to see his family every weekend. Although, perhaps he's not so very ordinary after all. Jake is nice. Awfully nice. He doesn't go around killing mice or anything of the sort. If he's very hungry and he spots a mouse, he simply closes his eyes and ta-da! His hunger disappears. And the mouse disappears too. Every time. How strange...?

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Tails Throughout Time
Children's Books2013 · 40 pp · Age 3+

Tails Throughout Time

Yulia Horst

This is a fantastically original picture book built on one simple yet alluring premise: What would life be like if people had tails? A shrewd and lexical text combined with classic and beautiful illustrations, Halens historie entices the reader to visit a hypothetical world – a world populated by people with tails! We see how tails can be used to convey emotions, how they can come in handy when we want to flirt a little, or even to poke fun at others. We gain an insight into how tails influence fashion trends and why some individuals have a strained relationship with their tail and take drastic steps in order to fit in with beauty ideals. But there’s also a look at more day-to-day matters, such as how to exersice your tail and how to avoid your tail being stepped on. Halens historie is a beautiful and charmingly outlandish picture book written in the style of a factbook, all about the history of the tail. ‘Halens historie is as playful, funny and fantastic as a picture book for children ought to be... The playful nature hasn’t been cut short at the idea stage, but permeates the entire story and facilitates numerous questions and added fun underway... Text is scarce and factual whilst remaining a lovely book for reading aloud. Even so, the illustrations take centre stage. Rather than simply expanding upon the text, they constitute the majority of the book’s content. Each has been painstakingly completed, rich in content and varied in a mix of colour and black-and-white images that serve to emphasise and strengthen the book’s appeal... Pencil strokes, yellowed pages and cursive handwriting form associations to an old-fashioned sketchbook. In this way, the book emerges as a kind of draft version of a fact book from another world. It provides opportunities for explanation and conversation along the way.’ DAGBLADET Solid tail story 'Halens historie is surprisingly convincing in its assumptions about how we would regard our tails. … Halens historie has many of the features that characterise picture books set to remain relevant for a long time, and wonderful humour for both children and adults is one of them. The first thing that strikes the reader is Daria Rychkova’s illustrations … precise and beautiful spreads; part pencil drawing, part elegant and precise watercolours. … drawings of tails seldom say so much. Her mastery of historical dress and costumes is also striking. … Halens historie can be read from the start, end and middle, and will always delight and surprise readers.' NUMER

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All Day Long
Children's Books2013 · 64 pp

All Day Long

Anna Fiske

Anna is tired of her family. She decides to climb up the cherry tree and stay there all day long – her family will just have to do without her! From her hiding place in the tree Anna can see everything that happens, but nobody can see Anna. After a long day she climbs down, but when she sits down at the dinner table she discovers that nobody has even noticed that she's been gone at all! 'What have you been up to today?' asks Mummy. 'Nothing special,' Anna replies. ‘This lingering, slightly philosophical and rather slow narrative is definitely not without humour and sarcasm. Nonetheless, the topic of a child’s need to be seen and accepted is fundamentally serious. ... As ever, the illustrations are organic, naïve. Fiske’s strange lines fuse text and images into one inseparable whole.’VG ‘Anna Fiske has created both text and illustrations, demonstrating once more that she belongs to the elite of Norway’s illustrators of books for children, with emphasis on detailed, comic strip-type drawings. ... so much happens at the level of detail in this book and its atmosphere is so warm and kind that it is totally impossible not to be charmed, and more, by run-away Anna.’Hamar Arbeiderblad ‘Anna Fiske’s strength is the way she lets herself to play with her own fantasies – the oddities and absurdities – but not allowing is to interfere with accessibility. It makes for a good book, without being mainstream. And it is child-friendly.’Dagbladet

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Jump, Grandad!
Children's Books2013 · 44 pp · Age 3 - 9

Jump, Grandad!

Tiril Valeur

Grandad is picking Lea up from school today, but they have to hurry because Lea has ballet class! When the time comes for Grandad to help Lea get changed, they get a suprise. None of Lea's pretty dance clothes are to be found in Grandad's bag, and Lea doesn't feel like dancing at all anymore. If only Grandad could find some way to persuade her. A sweet and familiar tale of what happens when a grandfather joins his granddaughter's dance class. 'Tiril Valeur amuses both children and adults with her vivid illustrations and colourful style. A terrific book for a child learning to read. [...] The central characters are great fun and the story both simple enough and good enough to sustain the enthusiasm for reading in the youngest children.'Fædrelandsvennen

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The Chief Mouse Catcher of Downing Street
Children's Books2013 · 64 pp · Age 3 - 9

The Chief Mouse Catcher of Downing Street

Lena Lindahl

Did you know that in number 10 Downing Street, home to the British Prime Minister, cats have been employed as mouse catchers for almost 300 years? The feline with the greatest perseverance was named Wilberforce, who held the position for 18 years. Other honourable candidates such as Treasury Bill and Nelson also went to great efforts for the Prime Minister. But the most notorious and merciless of them all was Humphrey. Following Humphrey’s retirement over 15 years ago, no cat has matched up to his impressive efforts. One day they discover that there are rats in the house. It’s time to find a new cat. The job goes to Larry, a peaceful garden cat who has enjoyed a tranquil and undramatic life thus far in a cat shelter. There are just a couple of small problems: Larry is pretty lazy, and terrified of rats.In order to avoid losing his job, Larry is forced to concoct a clever plan. More than that, he has to ally himself with some of the other residents in the house . Musefangeren i Downing Street is based on a true story. Well, almost.

Night Guard
Children's Books2013 · Age 6+

Night Guard

Synne Lea

Taking their cue from settings that children recognise, these poems investigate concepts such as dreaming, longing and friendship. The familiar and intimate is transformed into a limitless, all-encompassing world. The illustrations are dream-like but real at the same time. Synne Lea and Stian Hole have together created Nattevakt, a different, image-rich collection of poetry. ‘Nattevakt is one of the most beautiful books I’ve ever read, all whilst remaining both shrewd and witty... The text and illustrations blend in an exemplary manner - this book ought to be regarded as one of the most significant publications of the past decade. This is a shining example of literature for all ages that defies adherence to one category in the way that it says something fundamental about being human.’NUMER (Volume 4/2013) ‘… It’s nice to see that publishers are willing to make room for poetry for children filled with awe and significance. A book like Nattevakt shows how a combination of images and text can create its own sense of poetry, in addition to being quite stunningly beautiful. Together the images and text create new layers and opportunities for interpreting events. Nattevakt reveals how well suited picture books are for poetry collections. Is this book too advanced? I tend to think not.’DAGBLADET ‘Nattevakt has become a remarkable collaborative project in which the words and pictures work together to expand and develop one another... The poems are written for children, and there is good reason to believe that they will hit home with many young readers with astute observations imparted through well-selected words. But even so, they shine with vigour and have a great deal to offer adult readers... There’s so much life to be found within the illustrations. They appear to explode before your eyes! Not quite like a full-on explosion, but would it be right to say an implosion? There is certainly a quiet energy within them – something held back. VÅRT LAND ‘These are thoughtful texts, almost like perceptions of situations and voices... The texts are held together by a running theme of family life. Illustrator Stian Hole lifts the book’s poetic dimension in an astounding manner. With characteristic precision, lightness of touch and what I would describe as purity, he rolls out one visual treat after another.’AFTENPOSTEN ‘The most sensational of this year’s Brage Prize candidates has to be Nattevakt, bringing together Synne Lea’s enigmatic poetry, written simply and brimming with revelations and sudden little abysses, and complemented by Stian Hole’s strikingly beautiful, Magrittesque compositions... The fact that many children will come to love these poems goes without a doubt, but the book contains no safe adult hand to lead the child reader through the wonderful world of its poems - nor is it characterised by a loving adult perspective of shrewd child philosophy. Quite the opposite, in fact, with talk of poems that gladly reveal a fundamental insecurity to be found in adult-child relations, most specifically in the bond between mother and child.’BARNEBOKKRITIKK ‘The short verses are open and inviting, containing numerous questions and not many answers, making for some surprising reflections. They challenge the reader to view reality from a different perspective, whether young or old... Hole’s illustrations are intended for children, filled with secrets yet tangible, whilst Lea’s poetry is allusive and unobtrusive.’DRAMMENS TIDENDE ‘Long-awaited poems for children (and for you).’Best Books of the Year 2013, VG

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