aschehoug agency spring 2011 - children & young adults

CHILDREN & YOUNG ADULTS

SPRING 2011

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Children and picture books0 – 8 ye a r s

Trond Brænne

Endre Lund Eriksen

Harald Nordberg

Solveig Hareide og Kari Hansen

Trond Morten K. Venaasen, Frank Mosvold and

Tom Petter Hansen

Mari Sager

Bjørn Sortland

Einar Øverenget

Junior8 – 1 2 Ye a r s

Berit Bertling

Hilde Hagerup

Margrethe Geelmuyden

Klaus Hagerup

Øistein Kristiansen

Marit Nicolaysen

Bjørn Sortland


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Young Adults Ye a r s 1 2 +

Bjørn Sortland

Harald Rosenløw Eeg

Endre Lund Eriksen

Gro Fykse

Karianne Lund

Hilde Hagerup

Tyra Tronstad

Easy readers

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Original title: SavnetFirst published: 2011Genre: Picture book Pages: 32

The magpie is the only one of the ani-mals on the farm that doesn’t live on the farm itself, but up in the tree. She’s wondering – am I one of you? The an-swers she’s getting don’t make her any wiser: Well, you can stay here, but you’re not one of us, really …

The magpie is pondering – maybe she’ll be more welcomed somewhere else? No sooner thought than done – the magpie is moving. And then maybe the animals on the farm will realise that they have lost something they ac-tually appreciated.

Missing is a picture book coopera-tion between Trond, Kaia and Bendik Brænne, with illustrations by Per Dy-bvig. This is the fourth book about the animals on the farm.

Friends, No longer friends and Stranger already exist. Stranger was nominated fo the Brage award (open category) in 2010.

MissingKaia, Bendik and Trond Brænne

Trond Brænne is a writer and an actor. He has written three picture books in cooperation with his children Kaia and Bendik.


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Original title: FremmedFirst published: 2010 Genre: Picture book Pages: 32

This is a subtle story about fear of the unknown. In Stranger we get another delightful story about the (not-so-friendly?) friends at the farm. This time a beaver comes to visit the farm, and it’s hard to say how the other animals will react. He can’t lay eggs, and his ears are too small. The other animals cannot understand what he is good for. But he may surprise them all …

Stranger

BRAGENOMINATED2010“Stranger is a warm and including picture book with a visual expression that sparkles”Anne Cathrine Straume, NRK P2

“A successful picture book about fear of the unknown (…) Its a smart and thoughtprovoking book (...)”Gerd Elin Stava Sandve, Dagsavisen

Original title: Alvin Pang og en søster for myeFirst published: 2010 Genre: Picture book Pages: 32


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Original title: Alvin Pang og det voksne gjør når du soverFirst published: 2011llustrations: Olve Askim Pages: 32

The kids are wondering what the grown-ups are doing while they are asleep. The suggestions are many: they have a pillow fight in bed, they play PlayStation, and they drink soda pops and eat candy and go wild.

Alvin decides to find out if any of this is true. He stays awake at night, pre-tending to be asleep. He sneaks up on them, but all they do is watch TV. Alvin goes back to bed, but footsteps wake him up. It’s all starting now. Now, they are going to do what grown-ups do when the children are asleep.

Alvin Pang and What Grown-ups Do When You’re Asleep

Endre Lund Eriksen

“The Alvin Pang-books are fresh and fun stories for small children, joyously illustrated by Olve Askim (...)This is the second book about Alvin Pang and I’m looking forward to more!”Sigrid of the Reading Association Les!


7Children and Picture Books / Spring 2011

Endre Lund Eriksen is born in Bodø in 1977. His first children’s book came in 2002, Pitbull-Terje runs amok, and it was awarded the Department of Church and Cultural’s literature award for best book for children and youth. The book has become a bestseller, and it’s sold to many countries. Endre Lund Eriksen has received the commune of Bodø’s Cultural Award for 2010 and the School Librerians’ Literature Award.

Alvin Pang and a Sister Too Many

Alvin Pang and the Best Birthday Ever

Original title: Alvin Pang og en søster for myeFirst published: 2010 llustrations: Olve AskimPages: 32

Alvin is struggling. How is he going to get rid of El-vira, his annoying little sister who is constantly in the way, ruining things and stealing all the atten-tion? Should he sell her? Or maybe trade her? Alvin is unsure, but when he finally thinks he has solved the Elvira-problem, it turns out not to be such a great idea after all …

Original title: Alvin Pang og verdens beste bursdagFirst published: 2010llustrations: Olve AskimPages: 40

It’s Alvin’s birthday, and it’s got to be celebrated! He is going to be the king of the day. But with expecta-tions like that, it is bound to go wrong. Alvin can-cels the party, sends his guests home and is left with Rainer, the only person he didn’t want to invite. The strange thing is that it actually turns out to be a quite nice day.


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Original title: Førstemann som pissa på månenFirst published: 2009Genre: Picture book Pages: 48

Foreign rights sold: German (Patmos verlag), Ko-rean (Dhampus publishing co.)

The spaceship Apollo 11 is headed for the moon. On board are three men who all hate each other’s guts: Buzz, Michael and Neil.

Buzz is mad as hell. The first man out was supposed to be HIM. But Houston has decided to let Neil go first instead. Michael is suspiciously happy. Even though he will only be sitting in the spaceship that will orbit around the moon. Is he up to something? And Neil, who appears to be such a nice guy, keeps poring over the check list. So many things can go wrong.

The First Man to Pee on the Moon

Endre Lund Eriksen and Torill Kove



Harald Nordberg is most famous for his wonderful illustrations in many Norwegian children’s books, and he has been awarded nationally and internationally. This time he is the creator of both text and illustrations.

Original title: Robins ReiseFirst published: 2010Genre: Picture book Pages: 48

Robin and his dad are taking a drive on his dad’s motorcycle when it breaksdown, and they have to rescue them-selves onto a roundabout. Where they stay – because it turns out that the roundabout is the home of lots of strange people and animals.

Robin’s Journey is an imaginative and mythical story, packed with references to international children’s literature.

Robin’s JourneyHarald Nordberg


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Illustrator: Tina SoliFirst published: 2011Genre: Picture book Pages: 32

A picture book that tells the story about how Kosinus the dragon and Solveig get to know each other. Kosi-nus lives in his dragon cave far away in the mountains. One day he hears pounding and hammering outside, and there is Solveig, chopping the number seven out in stone. Kosinus and Solveig become friends, and Kosi-nus comes home with Solveig, to the number factory. Kosinus the dragon is very fond of numbers – he eats them, an activity that leads him into unfor-tunate situations. Solveig is the friend that always helps him fix his mess.

Kosinus the DragonSolveig Hareide and Kari Hansen

Solveig Hareide Solveig Hareide is a well known presenter on NRK. She’s worked on shows like Kosinus, Newton and Barne-TV. Kari Hansen is working as a producer at NRK Ty-holt. Hareide and Hansen have developed the program about the dragon Kosinus together; they are responsible for the idea and the manuscript. They both live in Trondheim and work in NRK Tyholt, Trondheim.



Illustrator: Tina SolliFirst published: 2011 Pages: 24

Three exercise-based picture books as we know them from the TV series about Kosinus the dragon. Kosinus is locked up because he has eaten a number, and in the book the reader is going to save Kosinus. The reader must solve three exercises to find the three keys that can open the dragon lock and let Kosinus be free: the circular key, the triangle key and the square key.

Kosinus at the CastleKosinus at the FarmKosinus Going Sailing


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Hansen, Mosvold, Venaasen Trond Morten K. Venaasen, Frank Mosvold og Tom Petter Hansen works together in Kool Productions.

Original title: Elleville Elfrid og verdens største snømannFirst published: 2011Pages: 32

Goal: Play with her friends.Risk: Her friends will not play.Learn: To share.Pitch: Kathy has gotten a brand new bed, but she does not let her friends play in it.

Winter Wonderland

Hansen, Mosvold, Venaasen

The New Bed

Original title: Elleville Elfrid og den nye sengenFirst published: 2011Pages: 32

Goal: Build a snowman with Henry.Risk: Loose her friendship with Henry.Learn: Keep a promise.Pitch: Henry and Kathy want to build the largest snowman in the whole world, Kathy goes to get some help, but she forgets Henry and the snowman.

Sunshine Kathy

Anne Cathrine Straume, NRK P2



Winter Wonderland

The New Bed

Original title: Elleville Elfrid den stygge andungenFirst published: 2011Pages: 32

Goal: To find the pink umbrella.Risk: Not be able to play with friends in the rain.Learn: Put things back where they belong.Pitch: Kathy loves playing in the rain with her pink umbrella. Now it is raining, but she cannot find her umbrella.

The Ugly Duckling

My Pink Umbrella

Original title: Elleville Elfrid og den rosa paraplyenFirst published: 2011Pages: 32

Goal: To be part of the ballet performance.Risk: Ruin the show.Learn: To be yourself (everyone is special).Pitch: Ms Berg is having a ballet performance (The Swan Lake) and Kathy wants to be like everyone else, but it is not easy.

Anne Cathrine Straume, NRK P2Aschehoug is launching four new titles in October 2011:Combining the good nature of Astrid Lindgren’s Emil and the humorous naivety of Pippi Longstocking.


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Original title: Stjele-FridaFirst published: 2011Genre: Picture book Pages: 32

Frida is furious! She can’t have money to buy candy, and nothing is going her way. She might as well run off. And she does, to her best friend Jenny’s house.While Jenny has dinner, Frida waits in her room. She sees all kinds of things that Jenny has, that Frida doesn’t have. And she has so much money in her piggybank! Before she knows it, some of the money has ended up in Frida’s pocket…

Frida StealingMari Sager

Mari Sager made her debut in 2010 with Doktor Frida and Monster Frida. Frida Stealing is her third book for children.



Monster Frida

Doctor Frida

Original title: Monster FridaFirst published: 2010Genre: Picture book Pages: 32

Little Frida has just lost her first tooth and on top of that, she is going to come with her dad to work! But the grown-ups don’t see the missing tooth, they’re only concerned with who Frida looks like. Is she the spitting image of her grandfather? Or does she look exactly like her sister? Why are they talking so weird-ly? Frida is frustrated!

Original title: Doktor FridaFirst published: 2010Genre: Picture book Pages: 32

Little Frida has got doctor’s equipment for Christ-mas, and she goes to visit her neighbour Odd. While Odd is out running an errand, Frida makes skating ice in front of the steps. But his wife, Tullik, falls on the ice, and Frida has to help! She puts on plasters and everything, but Tullik is a difficult patient.


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Original title: Det hjertet huskerFirst published: 2009Genre: Picture book Pages: 32

Foreign rights sold: German (Benteli Verlags AG). Korean (Dhampus Publishing Co)

Leonarda is a little girl who lives with her family in Mexico City. Her best friend is her sister Eva — but Eva is in the hospital, very ill. Every Friday Le-onarda goes with her mother to clean the floors of a large blue house. While her mother works, Leonarda walks around in the house, which is full of strange things and paintings that she is not allowed to touch. Many of the paintings are portraits of the same lady. One day the lady starts talking to Leonarda. Her name is Frida, and they start sharing secrets with each other.

What the heart remembers is a sim-ple and moving story of a child com-ing to terms with the reality of death, through an imagined dialogue with Frida Kahlo. The book is beautifully il-lustrated with collage pictures that in-corporates elements and motives from Kahlo’s own paintings.

What the Heart RemembersBjørn Sortland and Hilde Kramer

Bjørn Sortland Author, reviewer and journalist, Bjørn Sortland is represented in a number of anthologies, and he has also written for radio and television. His authorship, which spans children’s, young adults and picture books, has won him a variety of awards.

“So beautiful it hurts. This is an extraordinarily beautiful book.”NRK



Original title: Sokrates og pappaFirst published: 2009 Pages: 80

Foreign rights sold: Danish (Rosinante), Turkish (Pegasus)

Sokrates and Daddy talk. A lot. About how grains of sand look inside. Where the snowman stays during summer. They talk about gravity and how things and thoughts change when we look at them from different angles.

Sokrates and his daddy is a little phi-losophy book for children, suitable for reading aloud and discussions

Sokrates and His DaddyEinar Øverenget

Einar Øverenget(b. 1964) is a philosopher, lecturer and radioman.

“Øverenget and Torseter have created a little treasure of wonder, a book which appeals to both children and adults.”barnebokkritikk.no,

Norway’s leading website for children’s literature


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Berit Bertling

Berit Bertling has a master’s degree in literature and has been into horses since she was ten years old. In addition to writing, she works as a riding instructor. The books about Milla are dedicated to everybody who loves horses - and reading.

Milla and the Midnight Mystery

Original title: Milla og midnattsmysterietFirst published: 2009Pages: 120

Milla, Freddy and Oda have one thing in common: They are totally addicted to anything to do with horses. One day they ride past a farm with neglect-ed horses. They have to do something! However, it turns out that helping the animals is far more diffi-cult than they imagined — suddenly they are in the middle of a dangerous situation. They have to trust each other, or risk losing everything.

Milla and the Stable War (2)

Original title: Milla og stallkrigenFirst published: 2010 Pages: 168

What’s with the new riding coach? And why has Oda suddenly changed? Milla tries to help her friend, but then a war breaks out between all the girls at the stable. In addition, someone tries to hurt the horses. Milla and Freddy realize they have a new mystery at hand — but can they solve it before it is too late?

Milla and the Gallop Fraud (3)

Original title: Milla og galoppsvindelenFirst published: 2010 Pages: 180

This is the third book in the thrilling series about Milla and her friends. The girls start to investigate what really happened to Eline’s dad. And who is be-hind the stable fires? The group of friends is in dan-ger of being split up when suspicion is directed at close acquaintances.

Milla and the Riding Mafia (4)

Original title: Milla og stallkrigenFirst published: 2011 Pages: 168

Oda has moved to Denmark, and Milla is visiting. At a horse fair they meet a Danish boy named Simon, and both Milla and Oda, and eventually Freddy and Eline, are taken with this young, talented rider. But Simon has an uncle who is acting strange, and when Milla finds a packet of hash hidden by a boathouse, there is no telling what might happen.


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Original title: Spøkelsene på BlekstadøyFirst published: 2011 Pages: Unknown

What do you do when you find out that your entire family are ghosts?

One day Jens discovers a horrible se-cret. His father was not the only one who died in that car crash ten years ago. His eccentric mum is actually a ghost, unbelievable! “That doesn´t mean I don’t love you”she says. Jens has to believe her, she’s all he’s got. Or is she? Other, scarier ghosts keep coming out of the haunted forest and they are calling his name. What do they want with Jens? Is it true that Jens’s grandmother is the queen of the ghosts on Frosty island? Is she good or is she evil? And if Jens goes with her, will he get to meet his dad?

The Ghosts of Frosty Island is a very Scandinavian ghost story and the first book in a new series about Jens and his unusual family.

The Ghosts of Frosty IslandHilde Hagerup

Hilde Hagerup(b. 1976) made her debut in 1998 with a novel for young readers, Bølgebiter. She has been published in many languages, and have received or been nominated to several prices at home and abroad.


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Original title: Maneten MedusaFirst published: 2010Pages: 120

Medusa the Jellyfish falls in love with Prince Gelonius. The prince wants to dance with Medusa at the ball. But the wicked Cyannéa conspires to marry the prince and become queen of the Jellyfish Sea. Before the ball, Medusa seeks a mirror – the hull of a boat. But in a bay near the harbour, her tenta-cles are caught in a sea urchin. She finds herself stuck at the bottom of the sea. In her struggle to get loose she receives help from Isenkram the Crab, Kallemarie the Squid, her little sister Moril and the brave whiting boy, Sølve. But above all, Medusa must help herself to freedom. She fights obnoxious seagulls, hungry starfish, creepy moon jellies, and the waning tide. Medusa matures in the process and gets ready to face the wicked Cy-annéa back at the ball.

Medusa the JellyfishMargrethe Geelmuyden

Margrethe Geelmuyden is known for her commitment to preserve the parks in Oslo. She also writes a humorous garden column for a magazine. In 2009 she published the book The great war on slugs. Medusa the jellyfish was her first book for children, published in 2010, followed by Medusa – in too deep in 2011.



Original title: Medusa på dypt vannFirst published: 2011 Pages: 100

Cyannéa is power-crazed and wants to be queen of the Jellyfish Sea. She locks Prince Gelonius away behind a fence of pig’s ears and pigtails – a pigrust, a growth with horrible quali-ties. Medusa tries to set Gelonius free. She discovers that Cyannéa has found more pigrust seeds and wants to sow them all over the Jellyfish Sea and make it all dark to get revenge. Medu-sa, Kallemarie and Isenkram make a very clever plan to avoid catastrophe …

Medusa - In Too Deep Margrethe Geelmuyden


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Original title: Markus og DianaFirst published: 1994Pages: 185

Foreign rights sold: Portuguese (Fio da Palavra), Dutch (Van Goor), Polish (Jacek Santorski), Lithua-nian (Baltos Lankos), Korean (Wisdome House), Italian (Salani), Icelandic (Mal og Menning), Hungar-ian (Napkut), German (Saüerlender), French (Flam-marion), Finnish (Tammi), Faeroese (Bokadeildin), Catalan, (Empuries), Danish (Høst & Søn), Czech (Albatros), Ukrainian (Thesis Publ.), British English (Front Street, USA), Russian (Azbooka)

Markus Simonsen is afraid of almost everything. But when he writes fan mail to famous people, he becomes somebody else: a blind widow bound to a wheelchair who longs for an au-tograph of a famous novelist, or a young sportsman whose career was destroyed by doping.

One day Markus writes to the famous actress Diana Mortensen, pretend-ing to be a sensitive millionaire who is able to understand the drawbacks of fame. When she responds, Markus is drawn into a humorous adventure that requires him to invent still more stories.

Markus and DianaKlaus Hagerup

“I solemnly and honestly declare that this is one of the most hilarious books I have read for years”Dagbladet



Klaus Hagerup A stage director and dramatist, Klaus Hagerup made his debut as an author in 1969 with a collection of poems. Over the last decade he has made a name for himself as a writer of books for children and young adults, resulting in a number of prizes. Two of his books have been made into films. Six of his novels features the unpredictable Markus Simonsen.

Original title: Markus er kongeFirst published: 2010 Pages: 150

The stories about 13-year-old Markus have been a great success, interna-tionally as well as in Norway. Here is the sixth book of the series.

This time, Sigmund gives Markus a chess board. Sigmund sees himself as the castle in the chess game, and he sees Markus as a little king that needs protection. In Sigmund’s mind, the school yard is the chess board. This is the source of a lot of amusement – and even love, actually. You don’t need to know chess at all to enjoy this story.

Markus is King


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Original title: Livets krusedullerFirst published: 2009, Kagge Pages: 161

Foreign Rights Sold: Russian (Om publishers)

This fantastic new creativity book is a drawing book for the whole family. Edutainment at its best, Doo-dles of Life inspires both children and adults to use their imagination and turn everyday doodles into fun and beautiful pictures.

Doodles of Life

Øistein Kristiansen

Øistein Kristiansen (42) is a Norwegian cartoonist, caricaturist, painter, and multi talented designer, who has been aired on TV in more than 40 countries, from China in the east to Norway in the north. In Asia, he is also known as Einstein Kristiansen. A lead through all his work is his purpose to teach the world to draw, so that each of us can free up and utilize our creativity through drawing.

Think With Cartoons

Original title: Tenk med tegneserierFirst published: 2010, Kagge Forlag Pages: 80

Learn to tell stories and and express ideas with car-toons.



How To Get Good Ideas (1)

Draw A Better World

Original title: Tegn en bedre verdenFirst published: 2010, Kagge ForlagPages: 161

How do you start a drawing, a painting, an idea, a new life? How do you find the creative voice inside of you? How do you release the artist in you and are reborn as a creative person?

Øistein Kristiansen offers answers to all these ques-tions and more.

Original title: Slik får du gode ideer (1)First published: 2010, Kagge Pages: 80

Foreign Rights Sold: Lithuania (Uab Grupe)

A drawing-book about training your fantasy and your ability to create ideas. Good ideas is something we need throughout life to develop as people, solve problems and innovate.


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Original title: Svein og rotta og kloningenIllustration: Per DybvigFirst published: 2009Pages: 150

Svein is worried. Halvorsen has turned into an old and tired hooded rat. The course of nature, the adults claim. Svein thinks the course of nature sucks, but can he do something about it? Sure, his friend Dan says – and he has an idea. What about cloning? How-ever, when they start working on the plan, they run into greater problems than they had imagined. It gets scary as well!

Svein and His Rat and the Clone is the fourteenth book in the popular, prize-winning series about Svein and Hal-vorsen.

Svein and His Rat and the CloneMarit Nicolaysen

Marit Nicolaysen who started as a short-story writer, wrote her first novel in 1985. She has subse-quently published a collection of short stories and two books for young adults. Her fourteen books for children featuring Svein and his pet rat Halvorsen have all enjoyed immense success.

“Svein and His Rat are already established as one of the cornerstones in Norwegian children’s literature (...) These are books enjoyed by big brothers, little brothers, parents and girls alike (...) Highly recommended!”Adresseavisen



350.000 copies sold in Norway. The books have been published in the following languages:Danish (forlaget Forum), Dutch (Lemniscaat), Finnish (Otava), German (Klopp), Lithaunian (Gimtasis Zodis), Swedish (Alfabeta), Turkish (Pegasus)

350.000SOLD INNORWAY!


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Bjørn Sortland

Bønna and the B-team (1) – don’t mess with the people on the bench

Original title: Bønna og B-Laget (1) – Ikke bøll med benksliterneFirst published: 2010Pages: 88

This is the first book in the new series about Bønna and the B-team. Bønna and his friends in the B class are hanging out a lot in the basement living room, playing Xbox and eating cheese doodles. Finally the parents force them out, they are going to start playing football. Bjørnar’s dad becomes coach, and mum becomes manager.Author Bjørn Sortland and illustrator Trond Bredesen also make the series about the art detectives.

Bønna and the B-team– A kiss for a goal (2)

Original title: Bønna og B-laget 2 – Kyss for et mål First published: 2010 Pages: 72

This is the second book in the new series about Bønna and the B-team. Bjørnar is lying on the couch while all his buddies are on vacation. He’s not able to do anything, he’s only thinking about a certain girl. Who’s on football camp. Can Bjørnar be bothered to go to football camp for a week only to be with a girl? Yes, he can.

Bønna and the B-team makes a B-movie (3)

Original title: Bønna og B-laget lager B-filmFirst published: 2011

In the third book about Bønna and the B-team, the entire grade gets challenged – to make a movie that can show both parents and teachers. Bønna and his friends think that this is right up their alley; they’ll easily crush Tore and his A-team friends, who often win when they play football against them.

Bønna and the B-team



The popular “Art Detective”-series combines thrilling reads with art and geography in an interesting and funny way. Amus-ingly illustrated by Trond Bredesen. This is a series consisting of 11 books.

The books have been published by; Danish (Forum), German (Arena), Castilian, Catalan and Basque (Edelvives), French (Os-car).

Bjørn Sortland Author, reviewer and journalist, Bjørn Sortland is represented in a number of anthologies, and he has also written for radio and television. His authorship, which spans children’s, young adults and picture books, has won him a variety of awards.


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Original title: ÆrlighetsminuttetFirst published: 2005 Pages: 548

Foreign rights sold: Danish (Gyldendal), Dutch (Lemniscaat ), Finnish (WSOY), French (Bayard) Ger-man (Hanser), Hungary (Peoples Team), Korean (Vi-che books Korea).

Seventeen-year-old Frida is diagnosed with a serious eye disease. Driven by an intense desire to see the world before blindness overcomes her, she decides to travel to see the world’s beauty – before it is too late.

In Florence she meets Jakob, who, like herself, is Norwegian. A self-pro-claimed art geek, he is in Florence to write an article for a Norwegian youth magazine. He wants to write about how the Crucifixion is depicted in art, to show how art history has evolved over the centuries.

Moment of HonestyBjørn Sortland


31Young Adults / Spring 2011

Original title: Alt annet enn pensumFirst published: 2006Pages: 263

Foreign rights sold: Dutch (Lannoo), French (Editiones Thierry Mag-iner), Swedish (Kabusa Böcker).

Foreign rights sold: French (Ed. Panama), German (Gerstenberg verlag), Swedish (Kabusa Böcker)

Dag Vidar is a boy about to start a new life. He is sent to live with a new family, in a new place. He gets new trainers, a cat and a girlfriend. He gets a digital cam-era so he can film the beginning of his new life. In fact, the future looks bright. But the more Dag Vidar becomes accustomed to his new life, the more wor-ried he becomes that someone will reveal what hap-pened before: the reason he had to move to a foster home. He begins to doubt all the good things around him, becoming his own worst enemy in his fear that his past might one day be revealed.

Cursed Curriculum

Harald Rosenløw Eeg

Yahtzee

Original title: YatzyFirst published: 2005Pages: 209

Harald Rosenløw Eeg(b 1970) has made a name for himself as an upbeat and unconventional author of outstanding literary daring. His writing is highly distinctive and has acquired a cadence that is all his own.

Klaus and his mother have just moved to Oslo. They are both going to start at the same school; Klaus as a student, his mother as a school coun-sellor. But even before Klaus gets a chance to meet his new classmates, weird things begin to happen. A boy gets killed in a tube accident, and Klaus by coincidence finds his electronic di-ary. Klaus begins to doubt whether the boy’s death really was an accident. And while he is dig-ging for the truth, he gets caught in a dangerous game where nothing is like it seems.


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Original title: SuperFirst published: 2009Pages: 241

Foreign rights sold: Danish (Gyldendal), Dutch (Van Goor), French (Editions Thierry Magnier), German (Patmos).

Julie is fourteen years old, and she’s already sick of herself. She’s had it with being anxious and alone. This summer she will change.

Mum and dad think she’s going away on a summer camp. But Julie has other plans. For a week she will stay home all by herself and do exactly what she wants. Get drunk. Get a tattoo. Drive a car. Get to know somebody. Kiss.

She does get to know somebody. Jomar. When they are together, she dares to do all those things she hadn’t dared before. When she is with Jomar she’s super.

But Jomar isn’t who he claims to be. He has secrets.

If you found out everything, Jomar says, you will hate me for the rest of your life

Super

Endre Lund Eriksen is born in Bodø in 1977. His first children’s book came in 2002, Pitbull-Terje runs amok, and it was awarded the Department of Church and Cultural’s literature award for best book for children and youth. The book has become a bestseller, and it’s sold to many countries. Endre Lund Eriksen has received the commune of Bodø’s Cultural Award for 2010 and the School Librerians’ Literature Award.

Endre Lund Eriksen


Pitbull-Terje Turns Evil

First published: 2007 Pages: 268

The third book about Pitbull-Terje and Jim.

Pitbull-Terje and the Fight Against the Child Care Department

First published:2006Pages: 277

Winner of the ARK Children’s Book Award 2006.

Pitbull-Terje Runs Amok

First published: 2002Pages: 204

This is a brisk, funny, engaging and rather touching story about a somewhat strange friendship.

Pitbull-Terje in Search of Lost Father

Every year, Jim has visited the graveyard where his mum says his dad is buried. But one day he meets another family by the grave! Did dad cheat? Is the weird boy of the other fam-ily his half brother? Or is this a different story alto-gether - one his mum never told him?


Original title: Pitbull-Terje på sporet av den tapte farFirst published:2010Pages: 280

“We want more!”Dagbladet


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Original title: Nelias GåteFirst published:2010 Pages: 368

Nelia is alone in the Erun Woods to solve a riddle. She has been attacked and knocked unconscious. She wakes up while being carried through the woods to the camp of the Forest People. She is sentenced to death, but Kin, who is to be her executioner, re-leases her. After being chased, hurt and kidnapped, she receives unexpected help and stumbles upon the answer to the riddle. When she finally makes it back to the castle, she finds out that Lora, her biological mother, is alive. Nelia becomes stronger and more independent. She makes choices that may have fatal consequences, for Linus as well as herself.

Nelia’s Riddle

Gro Fykse

Nelia’s Night (2)

Original title: Nelias natt First published: 2011Pages: 300

Gro Fykse(b. 1972) lives and works in Bergen. She made her literary debut in 2010 with Nelia’s Riddle, followed by Nelia’s Night in 2011. The next book in the series will be Nelia’s Sorrow.

Fourteen year old Nelia (Cornelia) is to all appear-ances a normal teenager. One dark night when she is on her way home from cello practice, she is am-bushed by a man and dragged into the woods. Her trivial everyday life is turned upside down. Linus, a young and aggressive man from a world parallel to our own, has flown into our world to get Nelia.

Nelia’s Riddle has the suspense of a thriller and at the same time a feeling similar to Astrid Lindgren’s universe.



Nelia’s Riddle

Gro Fykse

Nelia’s Night (2)

In this novel, illustrated with photos, we meet the hip-hoppers from Romsås in Oslo. The band gets fierce competition from the rock band that also wants to play at the club. Mira in the hip-hop band falls in love with one of the rock guys, which leads to complications and difficult choices to be made. This is a story about love and competition between young hip-hoppers and rockers.

Lisa + Nabil. AF1

Karianne Lund

Mira VS Mathias. AF1

Lisa falls in love. This is what she dreamed about, but not everything goes as planned all the time. One thing is getting a boyfriend, another thing is being in a relationship. How does that really work? What do you do? Do you have to be together all the time? How much do you have to make out? Lisa tries to find answers in hip-hop music, in books and magazines, by studying her parents and other couples. She has many theories, but they don’t really work in real life.

Based on the TV series AF1

Original title: Mira vs Mathias. AF1First published: 2011Pages: 70

Original title: Lisa + Nabil. First published: 2011Pages: 190


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Original title: Alt som er galt med Georg First published: 2010Pages: 200

The first year in high school is coming to an end. The class has been tuned, the roles have been appointed. Then Georg turns up, and there is a new am-bience – of malice. And the malice is not directed at the new student.

All that is Wrong With Georg is another youth novel in unmistakable Hilde Hagerup style. The reader doesn’t stand a chance to escape.

Hilde Hagerup’s books have received great attention and recognition both nationally and internationally, and she has received a considerable amount of prizes for her youth novels.

All that is Wrong With GeorgHilde Hagerup

Hilde Hagerup(b. 1976) made her debut in 1998 with a novel for young readers, Bølgebiter. She has been published in many languages, and have received or been nominated to several prices at home and abroad.


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Original title: Hvis det er flere som juger nåFirst published: 2011Pages: 230

Agnes is missing. A great search is ini-tiated. Her friend Rebekka gets a clue that makes her find Agnes, but Agnes makes her promise to come to the hid-ing place, and not to tell anyone about it. Agnes has run away, and tells a story: Her mother and Rebekka’s par-ents have lied about something during all these years. Her father is in prison, and he’s not a nice man at all, as the grown-ups always have remarked. Agnes’ revenge is to run away. And she wants Rebekka to come with her.

But it turns out that Agnes has a very different story to tell – and that story is about her desperate battle to hide her mother’s anxiety disorder. If Any-one Else is Lying Now is a novel about anxiety, compulsion, and how this af-fects the people surrounding it. The people who do anything in their power to cover up, normalize, hope.

It’s not sad and boring. On the contrary – it’s exciting, insightful, and dramatic. And it’s told with warmth and love to-wards the characters in the novel.

If Anyone Else is Lying Now…Tyra Trondstad

Tyra Trondstadis taking her master in religious studies. The poetry collection On Monday Morn-ing the Dead are Lined Up was her literary debut.


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Line Baugstø

The House in the Apple Yard


Foreign rights sold: Faeroese (Bokadeid Færoya lærarfelags)

When Kaja and Stine see a shadowy figure moving about deep inside the overgrown garden, they start discussing: Should they do something? Kaja is determined. ”We have to make a plan,” she says.

Line Baugstø

Kaja and Stine and the Black Hat


The double act Kaja and Stine keep getting involved in interest-ing situations.

Line Baugstø

Kaja and Stine Take the Case


Kaja and Stine have started their own detective agency, the Little Blue Two. So when the lady next door’s cat goes missing, the Lit-tle Blue Two of course take the case. But there is a problem: it’s evening and dark outside, when they decide to go out searc-ing!

Line Baugstø

Kaja and Stine and the Chocolate Thieves


This time the girls stop by the candy store, and to their amaze-ment they witness two shop lifters in action.

Exciting detectiv stories for young readers.

Line Baugstø(b 1961) made her literary debut with the novel Reise i gult in 1986. Since then she has published two short story collections, seven novels for adults and seven children’s books.



Rita Løvseth Sandnes

Lovise Moves


Lovise lives in a yellow house with Mum, Dad and Granny, and in her tummy she has a rainbow. But when Mum and Dad tells her that they are moving from the yellow house to the city, the rainbow disappears.


Lovise Gets a Friend


After moving to the city with her family, Lovise has started going to a new school. She doesn’t know anybody.


It Ain’t Allowed to Cry if There is No Blood


Lisa cries. She whines and cries. “Whining-Lisa!” Oskar shouts when he runs past. “It ain’t allowed to cry if there is no blood,” he says. But one day something happens when Oskar is out cycling …


Lovise and the Forty Thieves

First published: 2009

Pages: 37

The annual autumn party at school is up, and Lovise’s class will perform a play.

“Lovise Moves is a wise and beautiful book. You become happy by reading the tale about Lovise.”Bokormen

Rita Løvseth Sandneshas written several short stories and texts for different anthologies and text col-lections. She has also published four books for children.


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Steffen Sørum

2. Captive


Stefan is held captive by the Saracens, but he still has the ring of the black knight.

Steffen Sørum

3. The Templars’ Secret


Stefan and Knut are travelling from Damaskus to Jerusalem carrying an important letter for the King from Saladin.

Steffen Sørum

1. Journey to the Holy Land


The story starts 11th May 1186 on a ship headed for the Holy Land. Aboard the ship is young Stefan, an involuntary pilgrim. Together with his family he has been brought along by their ruler at home, a rich aristocrat. Soon after going ashore, their caravan is attacked, and Stefan is parted from his family.

Steffen Sørum

4. Saladin’s Trap


Stefan has found his sister, but the ring has been stolen and his company has been captured by the Saracens.

Steffen Sørum

5. Under Siege!


Stefan, his father and Knut fol-low the knights who try to break out from Saladin’s trap.

Steffen Sørum(b. 1976) made his debut with the much acclaimed novel Du elsker meg ( You Love Me, 2000). He has later published two novels with immigration, cricket and liter-ary experiments as their most important ingredients. He has edited the literary periodical ‘Vinduet’ and now works as an editor. The Crusaders is his first book series for children and young adults.



Natalie Normann and Anan Singh

The Changeling


”Why aren’t you like Anna?” That’s the recurring theme at Liv’s home. Anna always helps, Anna never gets into a fight, Anna does her homework – Anna this and Anna that. Everybody loves Anna. Liv most of all. However, after a trip to India, Anna is unrecognizable, and Liv is haunted by strange and scary dreams. Somebody whispers her name, but there is no one there. Meanwhile Anna sits in her room filled with incense ...


Writing Stories


Foreign rights sold: Danish (Alinea)

Have you ever wanted to write a story, but not quite known how to do it?


The Park


Amanda has just moved back to Norway from India, and is not at all happy with the slushy snow and the lame classmates.


The Attic


Foreign rights sold: Danish (Rosinante)

There are lots of things you can find in an attic. Skis, old clothes, books and sleeping bags. But also dark corners, dust, creaking doors and old boxes of equip-ment with strange things in them. And perhaps a mysterious mask?

Natalie Normann and Anan Singhhave written several crime novels and children’s horror stories together.


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Steffen R. M. Sørum – Dødsengelen 1

Einar Øverenget – Sokrates 2

Line Baugstø – Kaja og Stine og snømannen Isak

Mahmona Khan – Pendo

Bjørn Sortland – Istanbulmysteriet

Mari Sager – Pannekake-Frida

May Grethe Lerum – Solstorm

Harald R. Eeg – Jeg skal bare dø først

Karin Kinge Lindbo – Benny

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