Children and Young Adults_BEST SELLERS

Set in the idyllic small town of Riverton, the Detective Agency No. 2 series follows the adventures of our main protagonists Tiril and Oliver – not to mention their dog Ocho! Together the two young detectives collect evidence, search for connections, and join the at times perilous hunt for criminals. Concluding each book is an afterword in which readers can put their own sleuthing skills to the test.

2 million copies sold in Norway alone!

The animals stand in line. It looks fun, Twig thinks. He wants to join. He wants to play!
It’s not a game, the animals tell him. It’s a line, they say, and order Twig to stand at the very back. Then Twig doesn’t find it to be fun anymore.
The Line is a fanciful fable and an existential drama from the forest.

The White Ravens 2025
Nominated for the 2024 Ministry of Culture’s Best Picture Book Award, the 2024 Brage Prize and the 2024 Critics’ Prize

The Northern Lights-series invites young readers to an epic adventure to a magical Norway: Travel on the northern lights and arrives in a version of Norway different from what you see every day. A place that lives in our imagination, a place of wonder and adventure.

Book 1: The journey to the valley of the Trolls | Book 2: The Vikings and the Oracle | Book 3: The crow sisters | Book 4: The troll kingdom | Book 5: The portal (part 1), Book 6: The portal (part 2)

In Oskar and Me we meet older sister Ida and her little brother Oskar. Ida is eight years old and is the narrator of the book, but the wild and headstrong Oskar of five years plays the main role in her stories. A fast-paced and warm read-aloud story about growing up and seeing life in a different light than one did before. Oskar and Me is a tribute to everyday life, to sibling relationships and to all the places we are.

The book is illustrated by Åshild Irgens.

Winner of the Brage Prize 2023. The White Ravens 2024. Nominated for the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize 2023 and the Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize 2024

Mule Boy is a series of graphic novels that blend myth, adventure and social commentary, in text and images by award-winning Øyvind Torseter. Mule Boy’s skewed and somewhat alienated universe enables us to see ourselves and our society with fresh eyes.

Mule Boy (Mulegutten, 2015) – Nominated for the 2016 Nordic Council’s Children’s Book Prize and the Deutche Jugendliteraturpreis
Other titles in the series: Mulysses (2017) | The Handyman (2018) | Mulanosaurus Rex (2021) | The Drone Catcher (2023)

From the author of international bestseller, Sophie’s World!
It Is We Who Are Here Now is a literary and personal account that deals with topics ranging from nature, ecology and sustainability to relationships, religion, aging, love, life and death. Jostein, who has always been invested in nature and climate, tackles our most important challenge: how are we going to take care of ourselves, each other and the planet we live on?

What Happened to You? is a powerful, brave and thought-provoking graphic novel about friendship, being an outsider and living with eating disorders. Jenny Jordahl delivers an important and absorbing story for children and young people aged 9 and older.
Winner of the 2020 Brage Prize. Nominated for the 2020 Ministry of Culture’s Prize for best children’s graphic novel and for the 2021/2022 Avid Reader Award “Bokslukerprisen”

Everybody Counts is a seek-and-find book, a counting book, and a picture book about humanity. Every single one of us has a unique story, but we are all part of the same group – the world.

Winner of the 2019 Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize, and Gold Award, Most Beautiful Books of the Year, Visuelt / Grafill..White Ravens 2019. Also included in the dPICTUS platform’s ‘100 Outstanding Picturebooks’ selection, spring 2020. Nominated for the 2019 World Illustration Awards and the 2018 Brage Prize

Bringing you the Magic of Christmas!
The History of Bees-author Maja Lunde and award winning illustrator Lisa Aisato have created an unforgettable story in 24 short chapters which reflects the feeling of Christmas you recognize from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and stories by H.C. Andersen.

Winner of the Polish award Child Friendly World and the Estonian Babel Tower Award “Best Translated Children’s Book”

Brown was published in 2013 to great critical acclaim. – Winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize for Children and Young Adults 2014, The Dutch Zilveren Griffel (Silver Pen) 2015, The German Luchs des Jahres (Best Children and YA Book) 2016, the Norwegian Ministry of Culture’s Literature Prize 2013 (Best Children’s and Young Adults Book) and the Trollkrittet Prize 2013 (Norwegian children’s/YA book writers’ debut prize).
In 2015 came the sequel Black and in 2018 the last book in the trilogy, Blue.

Meet 10 year old OLLIS, short for Oda Lise Louise Inger Sonja, a new irresistible character in Norwegian children’s literature! Things have turned upside down at Ollis and Mama’s house. A tiny, sweet little brother has moved in – but also Mama’s irritating, neat-freak boyfriend. Things aren’t like they used to be anymore.

Black and white illlustrations by Nora Brech.
Winner of Målprisen 2017, for excellent prose in new Norwegian Nominated for the Cilip Carnegie Medal 2021, “Premio Strega 2018, Ministry of Culture’s First Book Prize 2017, the ARK Children’s Book Prize 2017 and the “Boksluker” Prize 2017

The picture book series about Garmann has won both hearts and awards:
Garmann’s Summer (2006) – Winner of the 2007 BolognaRagazzi Award, the 2009 Mildred L. Batchelder Award and the French Prix Sorciere for best album of the year 2008.
Garmann’s Street (2008) – Winner of the Nordic Association of School Librarians Children’s Literature prize in 2009.
Garmann’s Secret (2010) – Winner of the 2010 Brage Award.