Mari Kanstad Johnsen
Mari Kanstad Johnsen

The Ball

Ballen

Genre: Children
Category: Picture Book
Publisher: Gyldendal
Year: 2014
Pages: 40
English sample translation available. Full French translation available.

Elling has a new basketball! He loves playing with it. But suddenly he hears a sound. Kim and Coco hear it too. It’s quite close, but also rather distant. Could it be coming from … the ball?

Illustrated and narrated by Mari Kanstad Johnsen.

Photo: Auigon Johnsen

Mari Kanstad Johnsen works as an illustrator and artist. She made her debut as a children book’s illustrator with Barbiedoll Nils and the Pistol Problem in 2011. Her debut as an author came with Scary Holiday in 2013.

She received a Special Mention in the BolognaRagazzi Award 2017 for I’m Out of Here.

Her books have been translated into French, Spanish and Swedish.

Foreign rights

Argentina – Spanish and Catalan Rights (Pablo Curti), France (Cambourakis)

Previous titles

I’m Out of Here (author: Lene Ask), 2016 – Sold to Italy and Argentina (World Spanish Rights)

Scary Holiday, 2013 – Sold to Sweden and Argentina (World Spanish Rights)

Barbie-Nils and the Pistol Problem, 2011 (author: Kari Tinnen) – sold to France and Argentina (World Spanish Rights)

Rights

Gyldendal Agency
foreignrights@gyldendal.no
agency.gyldendal.no