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Award-winning series so far sold to 9 territories. Exciting, brilliant and fun – graphic novels that avid young readers will love diving into!
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The titles in the series are:
Crypto 1: Into the deep (2020) | Crypto 2: The Hurricane (2020) | Crypto 3: Open Ocean (2021) | Crypto 4: Frost Mist (2021) | Crypto 5: Deep Freeze (2022) | Crypto 6: Devoured (2023) | Crypto 7: Lake of Fire (2024) | Crypto 8: Chills (2025)

Eli has recently moved to a suburban town just outside of Oslo. She makes friends with a group of girls who love manga and admire her for her drawing skills. One of the other girls in the group is called Nina. When Eli jokingly kisses Nina at a birthday party, she thinks she’s developed a crush – or wonders if she has. Because what is it really like to have a crush on someone? And did Nina only kiss back as a joke, or was it serious? Girls is a funny and poignant coming-of-age book about friendship and discovering who you are – both on your own and in relation to others.

Winner of the 2024 Ministry of Culture’s Best Graphic Novel Award. Nominated for the 2024/2025 Avid Reader Award (Bokslukerprisen) and the 2024 Trollkrittet Prize (Norwegian children’s/YA book writers’ debut 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)

Betrayed and abandoned, with a dragon as their only rescue! An intriguing fantasy book series by Cha Sandmæl!

Book 1: Betrayed How do you start over when you’ve lost everything? The ash elf Kha excels in magic in an underground world, – a world where the moon is worshipped and families are tight-knit. Kha believes they are in good hands in this safe and protected existence, but dark forces in the world are conspiring to make Kha’s magic their own.

Attacked is the second volume in the epic book series for children and young people about the ash elf Kha. Kha has got a friend and ally in Ranja. A dragon by day, and a woman by night. Together, they decide to look for a magic wreath that can free them both from the curses that ride them. But Kha’s persecutors have not given up the fight.

A beautiful portal fantasy series where dreams come true, where loneliness and longing save lives, and where the smallest person casts the biggest shadow. A stunningly illustrated epic for children and adults ages 9 and up. This book series (vol. 1-5 so far) is captivating, beautiful, touching, warm and peculiar; filled to the brim with all the ingredients that a proper epic should possess.

Arkin is a lonely and anxious boy who has always felt different from everyone else. But Arkin is also smart, and strangely talented in drawing. It’s been eight months since he lost his mother, and the void she left behind is about to devour him completely. Everything changes the day a mysterious elderly caretaker at the school leaves an even more mysterious riddle to him. As he solves the riddle, a magical world unravels before him…

A captivating science-fiction drama about how curiosity and carelessness can have fateful consequences! A brand new Norwegian book series for children by Lars Henrik Eriksen

The aspiring inventor Kobolt Kogg lives with his mother on a small island, where the inhabitants make a living from farming with the help of giant turtles. Everyone seems satisfied with their lives in the quiet village, with the exception of Kobolt’s grandfather. He is the island’s great inventor, known to never abandon a crazy idea. One day, Kobolt and his good friend Linnea explore one of his grandfather’s machines all by themselves. They lose control and cause an explosion that hits them both. Kobolt ends up in a wheelchair. Despite the accident, he is determined to achieve his dream – the dream of becoming an inventor.