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The Day Mom left
Children's Books2017 · 40 pp · Age 3 - 6

The Day Mom left

Kaia Linnea Dahle Nyhus

The Day Mom Left is a picture book about losing someone and then losing your sense of reality. With the help of a good grasp of the visual and a poetic text, Kaia Dahle Nyhus captures the understanding of loss and want with warmth and humour. Chosen as a White Raven for 2017. The difficult conversationsThis beautiful story about how longing and sorrow can make a child loose foothold, is told in a simplistic text that is open for building it further. The conscious use of visual means like contoure, perspective, colour, frames and cut outs, fills out the verbal text even more. That makes this picture book admirable, and it strengthens Kaia Dahle Nyhus´position in the line of great Norwegian picture book authors. BARNEBOKKRITIKK.NO When Mother breaks awayThe abstract illustrations with colours and shapes that invite the reader to fictionalize even more, is the strength of the book art of Kaia Dahle Nyhus. The Day Mom Left invites to read together, and the grown up and child can enter a conversation about a topic that touches many. TØNSBERGS BLAD

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COLORS FOR THE PEOPLE
Crafts and Hobbies2017 · 176 pp

COLORS FOR THE PEOPLE

Dagny Thurmann-Moe

Did you know that gray cars crash the most and that red cars crash the least? That white, which is used more and more often in both institutions and schools, increases stress, decreases concentration and is a catalyst for headaches? What are colors, why do we need them and what do we use them for? In this book, color expert Dagny Thurmann-Moe battles against an increasingly more colorless existence. She shows us how Norway has gone from being colorful and full of impressions to being a landscape of gray and white, even in the summer. In the first part of the book, she gives an introduction to what colors are, why people need colors, and what we use them for. She explains what a color palette is and how to use it. In the second part, she envisages the use of color in architecture, public spaces, public institutions and on cars. Finally, she shows how we can use colors inside our houses and in our wardrobes, and that colors have a natural place – no matter what style you wish to have.

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COLORS FOR THE PEOPLE
Crafts and Hobbies2017 · 176 pp

COLORS FOR THE PEOPLE

Dagny Thurmann-Moe

Did you know that gray cars crash the most and that red cars crash the least? What are colors, why do we need them and what do we use them for? In this book, color expert Dagny Thurmann-Moe battles against an increasingly more colorless existence. She shows us how Norway has gone from being colorful and full of impressions to being a landscape of gray and white, even in the summer. She gives an introduction to what colors are, why people need colors, and what we use them for.

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From the History of Hope
Literature and Fiction2017 · 64 pp

From the History of Hope

Hanne Bramness

From the History of Hope is a history book in the shape of a poem, where hope is sees as a deciding power, as important as all the gloomy actions that take place. For even under difficult circumstances there is hope. Hope is an exchange, recognition, of a united destiny. But also outside the extrasensory, in the vision: to see beyond what is right in front of you, hear more than what is just around you. In the poetry of Hanne Bramness she brings the fragments from the history of hope to life, in the here and now.

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French Opening
Literature and Fiction2017 · 144 pp

French Opening

Vigdis Hjorth

A bold, erotic, and reflective novel, which explores the possibilities for a real meeting between a man and a woman. "She had thought of his gaze, when he stood in the doorway and she lay on the bed, before he came over and pulled off the covers, as if she had met it before. And she asked herself, if she allowed everything, what would happen then, if she let him choose, what would he choose, if she gave him that space."

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Kingdom of Frost
Narrative Non-fiction2017 · 192 pp

Kingdom of Frost

Bjørn Roar Vassnes

An award-winning science journalist explains what Earth's frozen waters tell us about the past, present, and future of humanity. "The Kingdom of Frost," or what scientists call the cryosphere, refers to all of Earth's frozen waters. Glaciers, ice caps, and fields of Arctic snow—the cryosphere is vital to our survival. It supplies us with water and helps cool cities from Bangladesh to Bangkok, Los Angeles to Oslo. In this captivating, eye-opening account, esteemed Norwegian writer Bjørn Vassnes interweaves brilliant climate reporting with the fascinating story of Earth's frozen world. He draws on cultural history and anthropology to tell us how the cryosphere once helped to spark life on Earth—and how it continues to sustain us despite its shrinking size. And he answers pressing questions such as: What will happen if it all disappears? ‘Vassnes never get high pitched, there is no alarmism, and no rhetoric about how we are standing at the edge of the abyss. In a hushed manner and with a steady pen, he still makes us aware of the seriousness. Underway to this seriousness we have joined him on an educational journey in the Kingdom of frost.’ KLASSEKAMPEN

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The Bird Dance
Literature and Fiction2017 · 208 pp

The Bird Dance

Ingvar Ambjørnsen

An intelligent, sad but at the same time funny book. In The Bird Dance Elling wakes up in a psychiatric institution in the same room as Kjell Bjarne. Two weird people slowly approaching each other, and a frail friendship evolve. In this book we also get the story of how Elling and his mother made a desperate attempt of having a normal vacation in the Spanish town Benidorm. Ingvar Ambjørnsen received the Brage Prize of 1995 for this novel. Reviews: “Books rarely make me laugh, almost never, in fact – but I make an exception for Ambjørnsen because with him, there’s nothing for it but to give in. But now and then I feel like crying, because this is so sad too. NRK “A story that swings – from the deepest abyss to the most unbridled slapstick – and at the same time the composition is taut… a magnificent novel.” ADRESSEAVISEN “… a lavishly funny, tragicomic novel…” TØNSBERG BLAD “… impressive portrayal of an uncommon mind.” BERGENS TIDENDE “… a wonderful book.” VARDEN Ambjørnsen’s cuckoo’s nest “… an intelligent book that is at once sad and funny…” DAGBLADET “… must be one of the best books to appear between two covers this autumn.” AVISA TRONDHEIM ******

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The Bird Party
Children's Books2017 · 56 pp · Age 3 - 9

The Bird Party

Alice Bjerknes Lima de Faria

Flapps is a nocturnal animal who gets bored when there's no one to play with. Everyone else sleeps at night – just not Flapps! Sometimes Mark plays with her, but tonight Mark has to go to bed earlier than usual. Mark was invited to a birthday party at the birds' place. Flapps wasn't. So, she steals the invitation when Mark is sleeping and goes herself. But the birds aren't particularly interested in having a visit from Flapps. They want Mark, and there's a reason for that … Tender hearted and funny! The Bird Party has the empathic view, the playful illustrations and the quiet sense of humour. The topic is important. How far are we willing to go to fit in with a certain society?DAGBLADET The Bird Party is a lovely picture book in a big format. The spreads are full of details, and we find a wonderful and fantastic array of colourful birds. The moral is good and easy to relate to: Is a good friend worth more than a fun party?BARNEBOKKRITIKKIt is the illustrations that elevate the project, with energy and drama. Great fields of deep and dark night colours make a strong contrast to the clear pastels at dawn. Yellow, pink and turquoise bring cheer to the uniformed and somewhat slick flock of birds. They are also shown as black silhouettes, quite threatening. But also appear just as superficial and vane as the text suggests. Flapps stays a nocturnal animal, almost overly simple with his figure quickly sketched, white teeth and circled eyes.BOK365

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Heart of Glass
Mystery and Crime2017 · 416 pp

Heart of Glass

Torkil Damhaug

Robin and Mikkel are brothers. Robin witnesses the terrible thing that happens to his cousin Amina. He can't help her, nor can he get any help. Robin is unable to tell anyone what he has seen. While Mikkel knows something he does not want to tell. Not to anyone. Heart of Glass is a story about recognizing evil when you meet it. About struggling to understand whom you are. But it is also a story about how far a person will go to hold on to love. Torkil Damhaug has won the Riverton Prize twice, in 2011 for Fireraiser and 2016 for A Fifth Season. ‘The personal voice is one of the strengths of Damhaug as a writer. His way of writing makes him a magnificent example of a true literary crime writer.’ DAGBLADET ‘With the sharp portrayal of a nouveau riche, multicultural Norway – where the lines of conflict are criss­crossing in confusing patterns and where the ambiguous solutions are only found on Facebook – Heart of Glass is experienced as a rarely relevant crime. No Norwegian crime writer has done it better in a long time, maybe not since Damhaugs own Fire starter from 2011.’ AFTENPOSTEN

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Children's Books2017 · 32 pp · Age 3 - 6

Boy and Girl Dig

Hilde Matre Larsen

Boy and Girl dig an enormous hole in the garden. With an enormous excavator. What should they put in the hole? The excavator, of course! Boy and Girl play around with the boundaries between fantasy and reality while continuing to explore recognizable themes for little ones – like the world, friendship, feelings and sense of self.

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Boy and Girl Play Pretend
Children's Books2017 · 32 pp · Age 3 - 6

Boy and Girl Play Pretend

Hilde Matre Larsen

With easily understandable sentences and identity as its theme, author Hilde Matre Larsen has an eye to non-fiction classics for children. Mari Kanstad Johnsen's tidy drawings offer the same associations. But Boy and Girl Play Pretend is quite different from educational picture books from the 1970s. The perspective is uncompromising, childlike and playful. And for Boy and Girl, everything is possible.

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The Boy and the Mountain
Narrative Non-fiction2017 · 144 pp

The Boy and the Mountain

Torbjørn Ekelund

A Journey of Discovery in Norwegian NatureThe Boy and the Mountain is an expedition through Norwegian nature, a conversation between father and son about nature, about traveling outdoors with a backpack and a tent, and about how small humanity is faced with nature. In the summer of 1894 a six-year-old boy is lost under the mountain Styggemann in the area of Skrim. Hundreds of people search for him, but the boy is gone without a trace. 122 years later a father and his six-yearold son go hiking in the same area. Equipped with a tent and a backpack they walk through thick forest and windy mountain planes. The goal: The top of Styggemann.

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