Children and Young Adults_NON-FICTION

A perfect book for everyone who is dreaming of getting a pet or just enjoy reading about animals.
Many children want a pet. The animals we call pets don’t really come from the pet shop. They come from the desert, the sea, high mountains and the rainforest.

Pets in the book:
guinea pig * cat * dog *rabbit * chinchilla * lizard * walking-stick insect * birds * rat * mini pig * fish * ferret * reptile * hamster * turtle

Follow Liv and Iggy’s marvelous time travel through the history of life. You’ll meet dreadful dinosaurs, giant dragonflies, enormous scorpions, huge sea monsters and loads of other scary and strange creatures. Entangled in this story is the amazing evolution of humans – from bacteria to you.
Did you know that you descend from a tiny little animal that looks like a bogy? Or a strange looking fish? Have you ever reflected why you are you and that it’s an unbroken chain from life’s origin to you? Along the way things could have gone wrong – because life is dangerous!

Illustrated by Sigbjørn Lilleeng.

Nominated for the 2024 Ministry of Culture’s Best Non-Fiction Prize, the 2024 Brage Prize and the 2025 Best Graphic Novel

In Unsolved Mysteries from around the World readers will find out about all kinds of sinister and unexplained happenings from every corner of the world – and get a chance to dig around in all the clues and evidence. In this collection of 33 mysterious, unsolved spooky stories are guaranteed to raise the hairs on the back of readers’ necks – young and old alike!

Illustrated by Jannicke Hansen.

Winner of the 2024 Ministry of Culture’s Illustration Award

Death is next up in Anna Fiske’s How-series. This is a topic that children are curious about, and which adults may find difficult to discuss. What actually happens with the body when you die? What’s a funeral? And why do we even have to die?

Anna Fiske has an incredibly unique form of communicating, and in How to Talk About Death she speaks to the children at their level and takes them seriously, while also managing to write a heart-warming, inclusive and at times even funny book about death. A perfect conversation starter for anyone who has questions about death, or who knows someone who’s passed away.

The How-series has been a phenomenal success both in Norway and abroad, and it has been translated into multiple languages.
Nominated for the 2023 Brage Prize

A book for anyone who likes dinosaurs and is learning the alphabet!

Dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals never cease to fascinate us. In this book, this ever-current theme becomes an exciting entrance into learning the alphabet. Each letter is presented through a creature that once roamed the earth, along with beautiful illustrations and an easy-to-understand factual text. Children can explore the pages and discover on their own, while parents can create a pleasant reading-time. There is a lot to enjoy and a lot to learn – about the distant past and the letters of the alphabet.

The seven coolest dinosaurs collected in one book!
Read about Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Brontosaurus, Velociraptor – and of course Tyrannosaurus rex. Colourful, detailed and accurate – in this book you can see what the dinosaurs looked like both on the outside and inside.

Line Halsnes takes the youngest dinosaur experts very seriously and offers tonnes of cool dinosaur facts in a way that both satisfies the reader’s curiosity and teaches them something new.

Most boys have questions about puberty, the most dramatic transformation they’ll ever experience – yet it’s also the most normal thing in the world. The authors have answered thousands of them, in sex education classes and at the doctor’s office: When will I get a beard? Is my penis normal? How do I find happiness again after a heartbreak? How do people have sex? Brochmann and Dahl have written The Boy Book to give boys answers they can rely on, a guide to help them on their way to adulthood.

1. bestseller
   Nominated for the 2021 Norwegian Book Prize (The Brage Prize)
   Nominated for the best illustration for the year’s most beautiful books 2021 (the Norwegian Designer’s Guild’s Visual Prize)

Handbook for Young Antiracists by Tinashe Willamson spotlights the important topic of racism. Racism is a complicated topic for grown-ups to navigate, and many find it hard to talk to their children about it. For what can you say? Where do you begin?
This engaging, including and thorough book is written in the form of a diary, with tasks and conversations that the children can easily bring up at home or with their friends or classmates. The goal is to pass on the knowledge to the generation that is growing up now, to give them the feeling that they have the power to change the world. Together we are stronger, and by just acknowledging the problem we can do something about it.
This is the perfect book on the topic for children 9 years and up, and it works just as well at home as in a teaching situation.

The book is illustrated by Thea Jacobsen.

Did you know that a slimy, brown worm can grow longer than a blue whale? Or that some fish communicate with farts? In The Animal Book of Records you will meet world champions in all kinds of categories, such as jumping, sleeping, farting and many, many fun facts.
This is an exciting, funny and beautifully illustrated book for all who wants to learn about the most incredible animals on earth.
Illustrated by Linnea Vestre.

What do the atomic bomb, the pill and the like button have in common? That’s right, they all changed the world around them. Just like the lightbulb, the clay pot cooler, antibiotics, the dishwasher, autotune, protheses and the bulletproof material Kevlar.
Through these stories we are given insights into how inventions are made, how ideas come to be and how these inventions can affect our lives.

Ten Incredible Inventions is an entertaining and educational non-fiction book, illustrated throughout by the awarded Rune Markhus.

Discover the world of insects! In this book, you will find stories about insects in many different countries: underwater in lakes and streams, in forests, in your garden and in your house. Insects and creepy-crawlies are cool, gross and sometimes bothersome, but most of all they’re super useful to us humans – and we wouldn’t last long without them.
This book was written by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson with illustrations by Nina Marie Andersen. Anne is an insectologist and also the author of Terra Insecta for adults, which has been nominated for the Brage Prize, translated into twenty four languages and become an international bestseller.

In The Girl Book doctors Nina Brochmann and Ellen Støkken Dahl explain everything you need to know about puberty. Young girls should not have to resort to “googling” to find answers to the most important questions about their bodies. The book is a quality guide from the doctors behind the international success The Wonder Down Under, and who understand a young girl’s body inside and out. The book is illustrated by Magnhild Winsnes.
Winner of the 2019 Ministry of Culture’s Prize for best non-fiction book