The songs of Astrid Lindgren

Rabén
& Sjögren
Agency
2010
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Picture Books
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Adbåge, Emma
Bergström, Gunilla
José Karlen, Per
Lindenbaum, Pija
Lindgren, Astrid & Berg, Björn
Lindgren, Astrid & Berg, Björn
Lindgren, Astrid & Berg, Björn
Lindgren, Astrid & Vang Nyman, Ingrid
Lindgren, Astrid & Vang Nyman, Ingrid
Lindgren, Barbro & Digman, Kristina
Lindgren, Barbro & Landström, Olof
Lundsten, Camilla
Lundsten, Camilla
Nilsson, Moni & Gustavsson, Per
Ribbing, Anna & Nilsson, Mia
Sjöberg, Lena
Stalfelt, Pernilla
Stark, Ulf & Ramel, Charlotte
Susso, Eva & Chaud, Benjamin
Tiberg, Joar & Höglund, Anna
Wieslander, Jujja & Törnqvist, Marit
Zetterberg Struwe, Hanna & Garhamn, Anna-Karin
Leni är ett sockerhjärta
Alfons med styrkesäcken
Tinkel och Tonkel i Tinkeltonkellandet
Siv sover vilse
Den där Emil
Lille katt
När Emil skulle dra ut Linas tand
Här kommer Pippi Långstrump
Pippi – Samlade serier, del 1
Dagbok från hönshuset
Apans ABC
Äntligen bajs!
Äntligen syskon!
Kompisen längtar
Djurens ABC – En ska inte vara med!
Tänk om ...
Livetboken
Kanel och Kanin och alla känslorna
Babo pekar
Månen blev rädd
Du och jag och min lilla cykel
Nejlika har en potta
6–12 years
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Angerborn, Ingelin
Angerborn, Ingelin
Arrhenius, Peter
Dahlin, Petrus
Engström, Mikael & Willis, Helena
Hallberg, Lin & Nordqvist, Margareta
Hedman, Annalena
Holmberg, Bo R.
Jonols, Martin
Kieri, Katarina
Lagerqvist, Camilla
Lidbeck, Petter
Lilleste, Lena
Lundberg Hahn, Kerstin
Melin, Mårten
Olczak, Martin & Sandler, Anna
Olczak, Martin & Sandler, Anna
Olsson, Ingrid
Rottböll, Grethe & Jacobson, Erica
Sandén, Mårten
Susso, Eva & Höglund, Anna
Unenge, Johan
Westman, Johanna
Kaninkatastrofen
Sorgfjäril
Baksidans hemliga hjältar
Alfons bollar med siffror
Branden vid Söderbysjön
Onda ögat
Teddy börjar skolan
Min första världssensation
Alice varannan vecka
Biljana är bäst!
Vilken fullträff, Astrakan
Cirkusflickan
Den giftiga ormen
Mord i blicken!
Vitas hemlighet
Som trolleri
Megakillen blir superkändis
Megakillen och havets skräck
Långt ifrån kär
Häng med på cykel!
Labyrinten
Den magiska hajtanden
Det ska jag bli!
Johanna fixar fest! Hela årets kalaskokbok
Young Adult
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Ardelius, Gunnar
Bjärbo, Lisa
Kieri, Katarina & Nilsson, Per
Laestadius, Ann-Helén
Lindbäck, Johanna
Long, Marie-Chantal
Niemi, Mikael
Susso, Eva
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Bara kärlek kan krossa ditt hjärta
Det är så logiskt, alla fattar utom du
I det här trädet
Hej vacker
Saker som aldrig händer
Vad hatet gör kan ingen fatta
Skjut apelsinen
Street
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Picture Books
A book full
of surprises!
Per José Karlén
Tinkel och Tonkel i Tinkeltonkellandet
Tinkel and Tonkel in Tinkletonkle Land
In Tinkletonkle Land live the cocky dinosaur-Tonkles who like nettles and skulls, and who
love to scare others. The Tinkles are a folk made up of good-hearted little monkeys who
like wieners, cakes and ballet most of all.
But one day the Tonkles and the Tinkles become best friends.
Per José Karlén is a writer and an illustrator. His world of images positively explodes with
bright colors, imaginative beings, and fantastic shapes and colors. “The colors should be
like a bag of mixed candy. It should be salty, sour, bitter, and sweet,” says Per José Karlén.
A coloring book will be published at the same time.
32 pp. 235 x 235 mm. Age: 3–6
Emma Adbåge
Leni är ett sockerhjärta
Leni is a Honeybun
Leni is sometimes a grown-up and sometimes a child. To think that it should be so
difficult for Dad to understand! Leni can do everything all by herself. Almost …
The ladies in the coffee shop call her Honeybun. Yuck, what a silly name, Leni thinks.
Because Leni is a big girl.
It’s so nice to be grown-up, to be able to do what you want. Until Dad asks her to help
clean. Then it’s as if the grown-up in her disappears. Leni is an assertive girl, full of ideas,
who feels misunderstood most of the time. It’s not easy to be big and little at the same
time!
With Leni is a Honeybun, Emma Adbåge proves once again that she is a master at
capturing and portraying the feelings and expressions of the young child. This book
brilliantly depicts the age of do-it-yourself defiance.
32 pp. 200 x 254 mm. Age: 3–6
Nominated
for the August
Award 2009
Pija Lindenbaum
Siv sover vilse
Siv’s First Sleep Over
Siv has become best friends with Cerisia. She loves her. Now Siv is going to sleep over
for the first time. Cerisia lives with her mum and dad, great grandmother, her big brother
Elme, Pållan the dog and two guinea pigs.
Siv and Cerisia are so excited, it will be such fun! But Siv wakes up in the middle of the
night and discovers that Cerisia isn’t there. Siv goes to look for her.
The new picture book by Pija Lindenbaum
was published autumn 2009, and was
immediately a best seller and received
brilliant reviews.
40 pp. 220 x 290 mm. Age: 3–6
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Picture Books
Astrid Lindgren’s classics!
Astrid Lindgren & Björn Berg
Astrid Lindgren (1907–2002) hardly needs an introduction. She is
one of our most beloved authors. Her books have been translated to
over 90 languages all over the world. Astrid’s own father served as the
model for Emil in Lönneberga.
Den där Emil
That Emil
När Emil skulle dra ut Linas tand
Emil and the Bad Tooth
Picture book classics about Emil, with a new format and layout.
Emil in Lönneberga, he did mischief almost every day. But Emil was
nice in that he never did the same mischief twice, but always thought
of new ones. As when he hoisted his little sister Ida up the flag pole. Or
that one time when he rode Lukas the horse straight into the dining hall
where the mayor was giving a party. Then everybody laughed but the
mayor …
Björn Berg (1923–2008) was an illustrator for the newspaper
Dagens Nyheter. His quick style, which immediately, and in a few
precise pencil strokes, captured an entire setting, or an entire personality, was exceptional. Mrs. Pepperpot and Emil in Lönneberga
have become international success stories, partly due to Berg’s
illustrations.
40 pp. 200 x 254 mm. Age: 3–6
The songs of
Astrid Lindgren
Astrid Lindgren & Ingrid Vang Nyman
Här kommer Pippi Långstrump
Here Comes Pippi Longstocking
Astrid Lindgren & Björn Berg
Lille katt
Little Cat
The first song books for the very
young. These are songs that everybody loves. Now they have become
little books in their own right, with
sturdy board book pages. Sing about
Pippi and sing with Ida while you enjoy
the colorful and funny pictures.
Look, point, and sing!
16 pp. 160 x 160 mm. Age: 0–3
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Picture Books
Astrid Lindgren & Ingrid Vang Nyman
Pippi – Samlade serier, del 1
Pippi – Collected Comics, part 1
Pippi Comics in a colorful, double volume, the first of three volumes.
Pippi Comics are published again, with restored illustrations in the original colors! The humor in these comics is unbeatable, and many of the
episodes can be recognized from the books. Wonderfully crazy, and a
delightful boost of nostalgia!
Astrid Lindgren and Ingrid Vang Nyman created the Pippi Comics together for a Junior Magazine, at the end of the 1950s. The comics have
now been around for a few generations and have acquired cult status.
This first volume contains:
Pippi flyttar in/Pippi Moves In
Pippi är starkast i världen/Pippi, The Strongest in the World
The second and third volume will follow 2011:
Pippi håller kalas/Pippi Throws a Party
Pippi vill inte bli stor/Pippi Does Not Want to Grow Up
Pippi ordnar allt/Pippi Can Fix Everything
Pippi går till sjöss/Pippi At Sea
Ingrid Vang Nyman (1916–1959) has lately been honored with several
large exhibits in Sweden and Denmark. She has inspired many illustrators, and is very highly regarded in artistic circles – an artist long before
her time.
64 pp. 195 x 240 mm. Age: 3–6
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Gunilla Bergström
Alfons med styrkesäcken
Alfie Atkins With the Sack of Power
Old-fashioned fairy tale? Or a modern picture book story? Read it any
way you like!
Alfie is almost seven years old now, and having magical adventures.
Somewhere between the ordinary everyday – and an inner, secret
world … They both exist! They both matter!
This is not a regular Alfie book – but closer to an old-fashioned fairy
tale. Mystical miniature creatures, a major fire, a soon-to-be overthrown
king, and a magical sack that no one could guess hid such powers …
This is about body and soul. Because reality also includes an inner
existence, one that everybody carries with them … Alfie too. And to
think what you may discover there!
32 pp. 185 x 250 mm. Age: 3–6
© Gunilla Bergström
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Picture Books
About life ...
Pernilla Stalfelt
Livetboken
The Book of Life
Life can be large or very small, fun or very boring, long, but sometimes much too short. Pernilla Stalfelt’s latest book is about life. About
being born, about dying, and about everything that happens in
between. About how time passes, and about what one might do
during life, for example, measure someone with a ruler, catch butterflies,
or wait for the light to turn green.
Pernilla Stalfelt is one of Sweden’s most daring and interesting authors
of children’s books. Since her debut in 1996 she has, with her ability
to handle difficult subjects in an intelligible and joyful manner, created
picture books for all ages. Her work has received much attention and
has delighted the public as well as the media.
... and
death
32 pp. 170 x 230 mm. Age: 3–6
Moni Nilsson & Per Gustavsson
Camilla Lundsten
Kompisen längtar
Äntligen bajs!
Little Mate Misses Olivia
Poop, at Last!
Olivia is going away. Little Mate can’t come along. Olivia is going
fishing and camping with Leo, and she won’t return until tomorrow. He can’t play, he can’t eat, all he can do is miss Olivia. Then
suddenly he hears skipping in the street. Finally, Olivia is back! And
now, in retrospect, it was kind of nice to have someone to miss.
Then you’re never alone!
Äntligen syskon!
A Sibling, at Last!
Two new books in the board book series with Little Elephant,
Wormsworth, and Rabbit filled with charm, fine humour and the
very best of pedagogy.
Little Elephant gets a potty. It has to be tried out!
Beautiful and moving, about longing and loneliness, feelings we
all recognize. Little Mate Misses Olivia is the second book about
Olivia and her friend. One more time Olivia pushes Little Mate’s
boundaries to see how far she can go.
Little Elephant is going to be a big brother.
He wonders if it is a boy or a girl. The
main thing is that the baby plays soccer.
32 pp. 200 x 254 mm. Age: 3–6
16 pp. 160 x 160 mm. Age: 0–6
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Picture Books
Joar Tiberg & Anna Höglund
Månen blev rädd
The Moon Was Afraid
The moon felt as though nothing was fun anymore. He was afraid, afraid of the earth,
afraid of the trees, and the mountains and of the light. At night, he wanted to cry, but
he couldn’t.
The sun said that there was a place far away where the stars could teach you to cry.
The moon wandered for days and nights, for he wanted to go there. And he learns
that it’s fine to be afraid. And the moon wandered across the skies, and he was
happy and sad at the same time. It felt good.
The Moon Was Afraid shows us that in the darkness, in the fear, there is also solace,
sometimes unexpected. Joar Tiberg’s dizzyingly beautiful tale gives us this insight.
Anna Höglund’s poetic pictures meet us where the text leaves off.
32 pp. 215 x 260 mm. Age: 3–6
Jujja Wieslander & Marit Törnqvist
Du och jag och min lilla cykel
You and I, and My Little Bike
A fantastic cooperation between Jujja Wieslander and Marit Törnqvist. Together they
have created a picture book with a starting point in Jujja and Tomas Wieslander’s
songs for the very young. Simple, ingenious songs from the child’s own experience and
thoughts, and where play takes a center stage.
Artist Marit Törnqvist has chosen some of her
favorite songs. From these she created her story.
We get to follow a few children in their games,
thoughts, and daily life. Jujja’s worlds of song have
become a story in Marit’s wonderful pictures.
56 pp. 200 x 230 mm. Age: 3–6
Ulf Stark & Charlotte Ramel
Kanel och Kanin och alla känslorna
Cinnamon and Rabbit and all the Emotions
Here comes the third book about Cinnamon and Rabbit, Ulf Stark and Charlotte
Ramel’s charmingly willful characters. Cinnamon and Rabbit play out their entire
emotional range with each other, not even hiding their worst sides, in this new
book. It contains fourteen funny rhymed verses about our highest and lowest emotions and emotional expressions, from jealously and anger to love and tenderness.
Charlotte Ramel loves her characters and allows them to act out their feelings in her
sharply brilliant, deceivingly simple pictures.
32 pp. 210 x 265 mm. Age:3–6
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Picture Books
Lena Sjöberg
Tänk om ...
What If ...
If I were a spider and you my spider baby
I would rock you gently in my web so soft and maybe
We could build a playhouse in the bathroom ventilators
And hide in pipes and faucets and in small toy alligators.
Lena Sjöberg has written wonderful verses about animal life, and
how it would be if we changed places. If you were a little piglet, a
whale calf, or a wasp mother … what could you do then?
A truly cozy book, and a declaration of love, to play and to the relationship between young and old.
32 pp. 238 x 213 mm. Age: 3–6
Hanna Zetterberg Struwe & Anna-Karin Garhamn
Eva Susso & Benjamin Chaud
Nejlika har en potta
Babo pekar
Carnation Has a Potty
Babo Points
Carnation is growing, and almost ready to sit on the potty. She has
a new potty which is red and shiny. But when Carnation tries it out,
no pee comes out. Why?
Blog Moms and book club parents love Binta dansar/Binta Dances
and Lalo trummar/Lalo Plays the Drum. In Babo Points, Aisha
and Babo head out for an adventure in the woods. The new book
about the happy family in the red house has been eagerly awaited!
You can’t hurry pee, Mom says. But then, suddenly, when Carnation is playing, everything is soaking wet!
Next time, Carnation is going to pee in the potty. Of course!
In the series:
Nejlika och lilla lilla syster/Carnation and her Little, Little Sister (2008)
Nejlika och gosankan/Carnation and Cuddly Duck (2009)
Eva Susso has written yet another wonderfully rhythmic text; it is
like a fast fun rap or jingle. The movement in the writing is contagious
and makes everybody happy. It stays with you long after you read
the book, and you remember your favorite phrases by heart.
32 pp. 210 x 210 mm. Age: 0–3
32 pp. 210 x 210 mm. Age: 0–3
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Picture Books
Barbro Lindgren & Kristina Digman
Dagbok från hönshuset
Journal from the Chicken Coop
A wonderful tale of life on Owl Farm on an island on the east coast
of Sweden. It is here that Barbro Lindgren lives with all her animals.
Quietly, and with humor, she tells of love and happiness, sorrow and
melancholy. About everyday meditations, and reflections about life.
Journal from the Chicken Coop is a declaration of love to life on Owl
Farm. Her thoughts mostly touch life on the farm, but also weave
together thoughts about the world and what happens outside the
boundaries of Owl Farm.
The book is illustrated in four-color by Kristina Digman.
64 pp. 170 x 210 mm. Age: 0+
Anna Ribbing & Mia Nilsson
Barbro Lindgren & Olof Lindström
Djurens ABC
– En ska inte vara med!
Apans ABC
The Animal ABC – One Doesn’t Fit In!
The Animal ABC is packed with animals
and letters. There are five animals to every
letter. One animal doesn’t fit in. It can be
an animal that doesn’t exist (for example,
a rocking horse), or one that actually
looks different in real life (a banana fly that
looks like a banana).
40 pp. 200 x 254 mm. Age: 3–6
Monkey ABC
A masterful author and a masterful illustrator. A magical combination in
an unusual and inviting, large format, alphabet book.
Barbro Lindgren’s unusual, fun, short, and easy to read texts about
animals is excellent reading practice. Olof Landström’s fantastic animal
pictures, in wonderfully generous poster sized pages, make this book
completely unique.
The 28 animals were created by Olof Landström. With a steady hand,
tongue in cheek, and with an eye for detail, as well as a fantastic range
of color, he has created settings and animal characters you must love.
64 pp. 245 x 245 mm. Age: 3–6
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6–12 years
Alfons bollar med siffror
Grethe Rottböll & Erica Jacobson
Alfie Juggles With Numbers
Häng med på cykel!
A fun and playful book of numbers for children who are just starting to
get curious about numbers.
Here you get to participate when Alfie plans his sixth birthday party.
We count on our fingers, dial our phone numbers, measure, have a
countdown to the day of the party, exchange money, and ponder the
mysterious number zero.
Alfie Juggles With Numbers is based on Gunilla Bergström’s picture
books about Alfie Atkins. The previous book, Alfons leker med ord/Alfie
Plays with Words, was published 2008.
Come Along for a Bike Ride!
Come Along for a Bike Ride! is written for children who no longer use
their bikes as a toy, but as a means of transportation. Here they are
taught how to bike as safely as possible and to practice avoiding an
accident in different traffic situations. After going through the rules of the
book and the examples, there is a built-in bike route.
Bicycle badge-stickers come with the book!
Häng med i trafiken/Come Along in Traffic with illustrations by Jeanette
Milde, was published 2009.
32 pp. 200 x 247 mm. Age: 6–9
32 pp. 200 x 230 mm. Age: 4–7
Make your
dream come
true!
Johan Unenge
Johanna Westman
Det ska jag bli!
Johanna fixar fest! Hela årets kalaskokbok
That’s What I Want to Be!
Johanna Throws a Party! The Party Cookbook For the Entire Year
Maybe you dream of becoming a celebrity, or a dolphin handler, or a
soccer pro? Maybe you haven’t really made up your mind. Here you
can read about different jobs, and how you can learn if they are really
your thing.
Every day can become a party! Friday night on the couch, Saturday
candy day, Valentine’s Day for two, Lenten buns with marzipan, Barbeque … In Johanna Throws a Party! The Party Cookbook For the
Entire Year Johanna Westman has gathered all the best recipes.
Do the test, find the look, dream, play, and fantasize. Working can
actually be a blast!
Johanna Westman is Sweden’s Queen of cookbooks for children.
192 pp, full color. 190 x 210 mm. Age: 9–12
Includes the following jobs: astronaut, soccer pro, celebrity, archeologist, postman, detective, police officer, dolphin handler, doctor, veterinarian, millionaire, hair dresser, cook, and teacher.
48 pp. 170 x 240 mm. Age: 6–9
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6–12 years
Mikael Engström is back
with a new triology!
Excellent
read-out-loud
books!
Mikael Engström & Helena Willis
Onda ögat
Evil Eye
How long do you survive in the school playground with pink shoes, if
you’re a boy, and in addition, a silly first-grader? Who is Hung Hassan?
And how long is eternity, really? These are the questions in the first book
about Ika and Ibsen. Ibsen is a philosophical guy who often “runs into
trouble when he thinks.” His parents are rather odd. They walk around
in hippie clothes and force Ibsen to wear pink shoes, to go against “the
norms of society.”
Ika and Ibsen don’t really know what “the norms of society” means, but
it might have to do with the two scary guys in the third grade. They have
at least taken notice of Ibsen’s pink shoes, and that is not the kind of
thing that scary third graders will ignore. It awakens their Evil Eye, and
they threaten to throw him down to Hung Hassan in the school basement. Hung Hassan is said to be a school custodian who hung himself,
and who now haunts the place.
Ika is different from Ibsen. Cockier. Her parents are more normal, but
also rather strange. They are always unhappy, have too much to do
at work, and continually fight about who is the most miserable. In
addition, Ika has the world’s most irritating little brother, whom she calls
Mini-Spaz.
The audience is a little younger this time, but there is no mistaking
Engström’s joy of storytelling, or the absurd humor, the philosophizing,
and the whacky characters.
The next two titles will follow autumn 2010 and spring 2011:
Bomber och kvantsskutt/Bombs and Quantum Leaps and
Frankensteins katt/Frankenstein’s Cat
128 pp. Age: 6–9
A little crooked.
Just like real life.
Bomber och kvantskutt
Frankensteins katt
Bombs and Quantum Leaps
Frankenstein’s Cat
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6–12 years
Lin Hallberg & Margareta Nordqvist
Katarina Kieri
Teddy börjar skolan
Vilken fullträff, Astrakan
Teddy Starts School
Perfect Hit, Astrakhan
It is Christmas morning at the farm, and Elsa is the first one out in
the stable, where the animals are waiting for breakfast. “Soon, we
are going to start riding school and teach you to be an obedient
pony,” Elsa whispers in Teddy’s ear. It is time for Teddy to start
school!
How can that which is bad one day, be good the next? Like, for
example, hitting hard with a huge baseball bat.
This is the fifth book in the series about Teddy.
Lin and Margareta are an unbeatable team when it comes to horse
books for the younger readers. It is obvious that they have a close
cooperation – their text and pictures perfectly complement each
other. These books always get good reviews, and always appear
on bestseller lists.
128 pp. Age: 6–9
Astrakhan swings the large bat and gets a perfect hit – the ball goes
straight to Josef’s nose. He drops to the ground and bleeds a ton.
“Was it really necessary to swing that hard,” Mrs. Sweden asks, and
her voice sounds a little angry. Astrakhan turns all cold inside and
her stomach hurts. What if her teacher doesn’t like her anymore?
But only one day later, it is Astrakhan’s swing that helps Mrs. Sweden
when she’s in trouble …
The third book about Astrakhan and her peculiar world, peopled by
Dad, her friends Molly and Josef, Mrs. Sweden, and her neighbor,
Olson.
96 pp. Age: 6–9
Short chapters
and perfect
timing!
Ingelin Angerborn
Kaninkatastrofen
The Rabbit Catastrophe
The super secret club Pickle & Company has three members –
Viking, Viktor and Vilma. When the three of them are out and
about, you have to watch out, because they are nothing less than
the singularly most clumsy gang in the history of the world.
Meltem is the girl with the sweet, serious mouth and eyes like
stars. The girl Viking wants to hug. That’s why, when Meltem asks
if someone could take care of her little Snow White over the week-
end, he happens to say that he is a rabbit expert. Viking’s friends
in Pickle & Company can help. But how difficult could it be to take
care of a little rabbit?
Ingelin Angerborn has a sharp sense of what is so embarrassing
that you almost want to die, at this age. And of course you want to
read about those things!
The Rabbit Catastrophe is the third book about Pickle & Company.
The fourth title, Kungskatastrofen/The King Catastrophe, will follow
in the autumn.
80 pp. Age: 6–9
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6–12 years
Adventurous
with strong
emotions!
Eva Susso & Anna Höglund
Den magiska hajtanden
The Magical Shark Tooth
The Magical Shark Tooth is the first part in a series about summer life
in Seagull Bay.
Moa and Margot are sisters. Every holiday they get to visit Seagull Bay.
This is where Aunt My and Carrie live. They have a small bakery, and
when they have a lot of work, Moa and Margot get to help with delivery.
In each book the siblings get an assignment to deliver something from
the bakery and this brings them out on adventures that sometimes get
both exciting and a little dangerous. And then the magical shark tooth
may come in handy.
Anna Höglund and Eva Susso have created a whole new world for us
to enter into.
96 pp. Age: 6–9
The big questions
about life ...
Kerstin Lundberg Hahn
Vitas hemlighet
Vita’s Secret
Vita Olson is seven years old and the only one in her class who hasn’t
yet lost her front teeth.
She lives with her mom in a white house where the bottom floor houses
a Pizza parlor.
Suddenly one night, she hears a howling from downstairs, and a few
days later she catches sight of a glowing eye in the dark stairway. Next
time there is a full moon, she is convinced a werewolf has moved in.
Kerstin Lundberg Hahn describes exactly how it is to be seven, lose
your teeth, ponder the big questions of life, as well as the strong
emotional expressions that are so often dismissed by stressed, emotionally absent parents.
144 pp. Age: 6–9
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6–12 years
The successful
series about Kalle
Skavank has sold in
60,000 copies!
Petrus Dahlin
Branden vid Söderbysjön
The Fire at South Village Lake
“A boring summer day I read in the paper about a fire. It had started
in the Birch Meadow Golf Club by South Village Lake. But it had to
be arson. Because how else could the fortune teller know it was
going to happen? Now they just had to find evidence to link her to
the fire.”
Kalle Skavank and Dilsa are the south Stockholm suburbs’ coolest detectives, and an unbeatable team when it comes to solving
difficult cases. The books are easy to read with many illustrations.
Perfect puzzle mysteries for beginner readers and others who like
suspense!
The eighth book about Kalle Skavank and Dilsa, Snokar i Orminge/
Vipers in Snakeville, will be released in September, 2010. While you
wait for this, check out Kalle’s homepage: www.kalleskavank.se.
112 pp. Age: 6–9
Two new
missions for
Megaboy!
Martin Olczak & Anna Sandler
Martin Olczak & Anna Sandler
Megakillen och havets skräck
Megakillen blir superkändis
Megaboy and the Terror of the Ocean
Megaboy Becomes a Superstar
The horn of the ship howls so you can hear it across all of Smallville.
It is Captain Baxter and his men who every year dock at the harbor.
The captain always tells of his dizzying adventures. And all the people
in Smallville gather to listen. Last year, he fell overboard and wrestled a
giant octopus. Another time, he was chased by Mountain Gorillas on an
island in the Pacific Ocean.
Heroic deeds are like Grandma’s cinnamon buns. Everybody likes
them, but only one person can make them. Stina Svensson arrives
in Smallville to produce the popular TV show, Who Wants to Be a
Star? And there are many who do, not least Krille Knutsson.
While Captain Baxter tells of his new adventures, the jewelry collection
of the local jeweler disappears. People suspect Red Beard – the worst
pirate of them all. He loves jewels. But how could a pirate end up in
Smallville? And who will be able to stop him?
Krille cheats, ends up on live television, becomes a star in Smallville,
and gets free goodies at Bibbi’s Café. But it should never pay to
cheat, and there is only one Mega Hero in town who can fix everything right again …
96 pp. Age: 6–9
96 pp. Age: 6–9
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6–12 years
Exciting, scary, unpredictable, and with a great
chunk of humor. The three girlfriends are like no
other detectives! Short chapters with cliffhangers
makes this a great page-turner.
Petter Lidbeck
Den giftiga ormen
The Poisonous Snake
One of the world’s most poisonous snakes has managed to escape during
a smuggling attempt, and the community is frozen with fear. The police
and the experts work around the clock to capture the dangerous reptile.
But something isn’t right … Pella, Siri, and Tyra start unraveling the threads
of the mystery.
144 pp. Age: 9–12
Petter Lidbeck
Den femte mannen
The Fifth Man
Pella’s little brother, Niels, has been kidnapped. The kidnappers demand
five million euros, in 200 and 500 euro bank notes. And they want Pella to
deliver the money. Now it’s up to Pella to make sure Niels is returned to his
family alive.
144 pp. Age: 9–12
The seventh book
about Tommy and
Chipper
Mårten Sandén
Lena Lilleste
Labyrinten
Mord i blicken!
The Labyrinth
Murder in Sight!
A mysterious castle, a meandering labyrinth, the filming of a movie
with a team full of shady types … The twelfth Petrini detective story
is a classic whodunit with a number of suspects and wrong turns.
The detective series about the Petrini twins is an established pageturner favorite. Always with a clever plot, well developed characters, and a spectacular resolution!
224 pp. Age: 9–12
Tommy has been allowed to come on vacation with Chipper to
the island of Teneriffe. The comfortable existence of sunshine and
swimming is abruptly interrupted when Tommy and Chipper witness a drug deal. They try to run away, but are discovered, and
soon they are not safe anywhere. Someone is prepared to do anything to get them out of the way.
The seventh book in the popular series about Tommy and Chipper
– true to life and easy-to-read mysteries.
192 pp. Age: 9–12
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6–12 years
Martin Jonols
Annalena Hedman
Biljana är bäst!
Min första världssensation
Biljana Is the Greatest!
My First World Sensation
Biljana is twelve and plays left fullback in the local soccer club. In two
weeks, they are playing the number one team in their division, and
Biljana is as nervous as the frog she once looked straight in the eye just
before her mom ran over it with the car.
Abbe and her pals Antón and Nadia are absolutely determined to
make a really fantastic world sensation in the small village where
they are spending the summer.
Fasten your seatbelts and prepare yourselves for a dizzying journey
into twelve-year-old Biljana’s world, among friends who let you down, a
soccer coach who mostly babbles about his old idol, Nobby Stiles, and
a dad who lost his job as a cab driver because he forgot how to put the
car in reverse. It is entertainment from the very first page.
Be prepared for a shattering world record in marsh-mallow-eating,
stuffing matchsticks up your nose, and much, much more. Quickfire humour and lots of giggling of course! The locals had better keep
their heads down – nothing will be the same again …
144 pp. Age: 9–12
160 pp. Age: 9–12
New easy-toread series!
The Fellowship For Good Deeds
Peter Arrhenius
Baksidans hemliga hjältar
The Secret Heroes of the Back
FFGD is here! The first part in the series about Robin, Izzy, and
Farzad – and the Fellowship For Good Deeds.
Robin’s parents got a divorce and they had to move from the row
house in The Front, to a high rise building in The Back. Robin really
doesn’t feel like living there, and to escape his apartment, he takes
the elevator to the basement. There, in a room behind a locked
door, Izzy and Farzad have their secret place where they hide from
the world, and where they have their fellowship. A fellowship for
those who believe that the world should be a better place. Their
job is to help people with different things – without having them
notice it. They are secret heroes of the everyday, who work hard to
make other people have better lives. Funny characters and a great
sense of the here and now!
Illustrations by Ingela P. Arrhenius.
The second title will be published in the autumn 2010.
112 pp. Age: 6–9
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Cirkusflickan
Circus Girl
“I was six years old when my mom sold me to the circus. She got money for a warm wool
coat and a pair of leather gloves.”
6–12 years
Camilla Lagerqvist
Ellen lives with her single mom. It is a cold winter, and they are barely scraping by. Ellen has
to take care of herself a lot, and even though she is not allowed to step outside the door,
she takes little trips down to the harbor. There she likes to climb around and balance on the
railings.
It is during one of these outings that circus director Madame Zenitha catches sight of the
little girl. She notices that Ellen is unusually limber and realizes that there is great money to
be made off of her.
It is a rough world that Madam Zenitha tricks Ellen into – hard training sessions, late performances, and a harsh, loveless existence. But worst of all is probably the lie, the lie that Ellen’s
mom actually sold her.
Camilla Lagerqvist depicts Ellen’s journey from a young girl to a celebrated circus princess. It
is a strong, colorful tale, alive with thrilling characters – it even smells like a circus.
Camilla Lagerqvist’s debut novel, Det brinner i mitt huvud/A Burning Feeling in My Head was
published 2009.
160 pp. Age: 9–12
Ingrid Olsson
Långt ifrån kär
Far from Love
Ingrid Olsson’s first book about Linnéa, Långt ifrån cool/Far from Cool, quickly found
its readership. Here comes the freestanding sequel.
Much has happened in Linnéa’s life since we last saw her. She has become best
friends with Vanessa, who was super nasty to her earlier. She is not sad and alone
anymore. The new Linnéa is cool and happy.
Linnéa and Vanessa can’t wait for Christmas vacation to be over so they can meet
the new boy in their class: Wilmer. They are sure that Wilmer is really cute. You can tell
from his name. W as in “world’s cutest guy”. Vanessa actually wanted it to be w as in
wonderful, but Linnéa thought that sounded stupid and she got to decide. She gets
to decide most things these days. But when it comes to Wilmer, things don’t turn out
the way Linnéa wants them to.
Just like in Far from Cool, this is about friendship and betrayal. And about love.
Because if you and your best friend fall in love with the same guy, everything comes to
a head: The guy or the best friend – who should you choose?
160 pp. Age: 9–12
Ingelin Angerborn
Sorgfjäril
Butterfly of Sorrow
Alice moves with her family to a charming old house in the country. Or, as Alice tells it:
a disgusting, old, dilapidated mansion, much too far from her boyfriend Leo and her
friends in town. How can anybody want to live here?
They hardly have time to move in before a lot of strange things start happening.
Suddenly, the telephones and the internet quit working, and Alice’s TV turns itself on.
Her alarm clock seems to take on a life of its own and shows 19:29, even though that’s
totally wrong. And what is it with that rare butterfly that shows up everywhere and then
disappears just as quickly? It feels like it wants to tell Alice something, but what? And
who is the mysterious girl Alice’s little brother says he has seen in the house …
This is a new, exciting thriller by Ingelin Angerborn, a writer much praised by critiques.
Her first title in this genre was published 2009, För alltid …/For ever …
192 pp. Age: 9–12
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6–12 years
Bo R. Holmberg
Alice varannan vecka
Alice Every Other Week
Hjalmar’s parents got divorced. One day it was decided. It was
quick. The house ended up with someone else, and he learned to
keep track of which weeks were even numbered and which ones
were odd.
Then his father met Carolin. And she had a child too, one named
Alice, who came to live on the other side of the thin wall, every
other week. He can hear her breathing when she is asleep, and he
can be close to her, even when she has slammed her door shut
and doesn’t want him around.
But apparently, Kent and Carolin’s relationship is rocky. Hjalmar
doesn’t think he can handle another separation – and he knows
he can’t live without Alice, at least not less than every other week.
80 pp. Age: 9–12
Mårten Melin
Som trolleri
Like Magic
Who is the guy on the jetty? He is so cute but strange with it – dirty
and sort of not all there. Mona becomes totally obsessed with him.
Where does he live? What does he want? How can he have so
much power over her? It feels as if she can do anything to be near
him.
Mårten Melin makes the supernatural elements feel real, as if it really
could happen. The story is exciting, funny, romantic and shocking.
176 pp. Age: 9–12
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Young Adult
Gunnar Ardelius
Bara kärlek kan krossa ditt hjärta
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
When do you know that it’s really over? Morris wonders. He tries hard
to run away from the memory of Betty. He jogs the lit trail with Dad, loop
after loop.
One day someone catches up with him on the trail: Lena. She is a new
world, with a small mouth and fiery kisses. With Lena there is not that
same sucking swirl toward the bottom. Not like with Betty. He doesn’t
have to touch Lena to survive.
Morris travels with Dad and Lena to southern
Sweden to train for the half marathon. The trip
doesn’t end like any of them imagined.
Gunnar Ardelius received excellent reviews for
his debut novel in 2006, I need You More Than
I Love You and I Love You To Bits, and was
rewarded with Slangbellan, an annual prize
awarded to a Swedish children’s debut novel.
128 pp. Age: 12+
Mikael Niemi
Skjut apelsinen
Shoot the Orange
Rebellious, unrestrained, raw, straight, funny, sad, and totally brilliant!
The main character is 16, and a high school student. He divides his
classmates into shitheads and idiots. The shitheads have it made
and they have parents who make sure things go well for them in life.
The idiots know that the shitheads will always win, but they accept
it and try to please them.
He is totally committed to not becoming an idiot suck-up, he’d rather
lie down in a pit full of gasoline, and light it. He is not going to live
his life like a spineless nobody anymore. He is more hated than ever
before and makes many enemies, but also friends. Like the black
haired girl with the green eyes majoring in art and design. And Palle,
who is bullied and has a difficult home life. Palle has a secret bunker
and a gun with hollow-point bullets. If the catastrophe happens they
will hide in the bunker! But when the catastrophe does happen, it is
in an entirely different way from what they imagined …
Mikael Niemi’s first novel, Populärmusik från Vittula/Popular Music
from Vittula, was published in 2000. It received Sweden’s prestigious August Award and became an enormous success! This is his
first young adult novel with Rabén & Sjögren.
272 pp. Age: 12+
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Young Adult
Two of Sweden’s best authors
let their characters meet each
other in the very same book!
Meet Siri and Jakob in two
separate stories that now and
then entwine with each other
and meet.
Photo: Cato Lein
Katarina Kieri & Per Nilsson
I det här trädet
In This Tree
A dad who lets him down. A brother who doesn’t say a word.
A friendship which suddenly breaks up.
And another one that’s just starting to grow.
Two lonely people in a small town.
“Stray-boy, is he one of those types who feels sorry for himself? Who
thinks like: aaah, why doesn’t anybody discover how interesting and
exciting I am, deep inside, why are all the others too shallow and stupid
and false, shy doesn’t anybody show me the way home?
Don’t know. Don’t care. I’m never going to think about him again.”
240 pp. Age: 12+
Marie-Chantal Long
Vad hatet gör kan ingen fatta
Vad hatet gör
med Martha...
(omslag saknas)
Nobody Can Understand What Hatred Does
Marie-Chantal Long has written a petrifying psychological thriller that will
leave nobody untouched. It is so exciting, so believable, and so close to
the main characters that you feel them breathe.
Martha feels as though she is owned. Owned by her mom, who doesn’t
care about her and has found herself a new family. Owned by her dad
who has met pretty, blond Solveig, and changed from a cuddly buddy,
to a pathetic 17-year-old. Owned by her classmates, because they see
her as a fat, ugly girl. Hatred is growing inside of her.
Nobody sees Martha the way she is, the way she feels inside, until
Adde appears. He also feels misunderstood, and is the first one to ask
Martha why she is so angry.
In some strange way, they give each other power, and they come to the
conclusion that everything would be better if Solveig didn’t exist. Before
they have a chance to think, they are planning a kidnapping, one that
they actually carry out …
192 pp. Age: 14+
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Young Adult
Lisa Bjärbo
Det är så logiskt, alla fattar utom du
Everybody Gets it but You
Johan and Ester have been best friends since the beginning of time.
They know absolutely everything about each other. At least almost.
There is only one thing that Johan hasn’t told Ester – he has been in
love with her these last four years. Unfortunately, Ester only seems
to have eyes for that stick figure with the guitar, Adam. Ester gets
goose bumps just from hearing his name. She doesn’t understand
at all why Johan is such a grump this fall – life is fantastic! At least, it’s
fantastic until that one Halloween party, when everything happens
at the same time. When Adam lets her down, the world turns, and
Johan can’t keep quiet anymore …
With a steady hand and great humor, Lisa Bjärbo creates a
believable teen world, full of love, forgotten homework, and sleepless nights. Everybody Gets it but You is a lovely, feel-good novel,
with quick dialogue and great moments of recognition.
224 pp. Age: 12+
Ann-Helén Laestadius
Hej vacker
Hello Beautiful
What is a real Sami? This is what thirteen-year-old Agnes wonders
when she visits her grandparents in Soppero in the north of Sweden.
Because even though she doesn’t speak the language, or has her
own kolt, the traditional Sami costume, she wants to belong.
As always, Agnes is a little different. In Stockholm, where she lives,
she isn’t like the others, because she is Sami. And in Soppero,
among the Samis, she is a Stockholm girl. They even call her That
Stockholm Girl, even though she is half Sami and is trying to learn
the language and the traditions.
But with Henrik, Agnes feels at home. At least until Henrik’s mom
decides that he is not allowed to hang out with half-Samis.
In Hello Beautiful, Ann-Helén Laestadius writes with sensitivity about
first love, and about a search for identity. Regardless of your background, Hello Beautiful is a book that will fill you with a sense of
recognition.
Ann-Helén Laestadius’ debut novel 2007, SMS från Soppero/
Text Messages from Soppero (Podium), received great reviews.
160 pp. Age: 11+
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Young Adult
Street
rules!
Eva Susso
Street
Street
Rafael, Marko, and Melina live for street dance. Several times a
week, they meet up at The Dance Factory to struggle with new
steps and new choreography. Melina and Marko are ranked the
highest, but Rafael aims to be even better. Melina is so in love with
Rafael she could die, but how can she reach him when he is so
busy with other, personal things? Everything changes when Terese
starts at The Dance Factory. Terese has been trained in the classics, is a little younger, a little wealthier, and definitely more stubborn than the other three put together.
192 pp. Age: 12+
The next two titles in the series about The Dance Factory, Break and
Funk, will be published in the autumn 2010.
Eva Susso proudly presents, The
Dance Factory! A new, cool series
with equal parts love, friendship, and
dance. Four teens with different background meet at The Dance Factory.
It is blood, sweat, and tears, but
also sweet love and strong friendship. A Fame of the 2000s!
Photo: Ulf Ericsson
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Young Adult
Johanna Lindbäck
Saker som aldrig händer
Things That Never Happen
Andreas is going out with Hanna, and he thinks he knows her. Same thing with the
boys in his class, they are real buddies. But Hanna, and even his buddies, let Andreas
down. And he gets totally depressed. How do you move on? When does it stop
hurting? The person who helps turn things around is Erik, though they are not even
real friends. But they see each other more and more and suddenly, everything changes.
Johanna Lindbäck’s fourth book is, like the three earlier ones, a page-turner with well
defined characters that you can’t help but like, and of course, the sense of recognition
is super strong.
272 pp. Age: 12–15
Upcoming titles in Frankfurt
Picture Books
Lundsten, Camilla
Lundsten, Camilla
Norlin, Arne & Burman, Jonas
Ribbing, Anna
Ribbing, Anna
Lillefantens ett, två, tre
Bebisens första bok
Här kommer rymdraketen
Vilma säger titta
Vilma säger hejdå
6–12 years
Dahlin, Petrus
Karsin, Åsa
Lind, Åsa
Lind, Åsa
Olczak, Martin
Ollmark, Lena
Sparring, Anders & Vierth, Jan
von Zweigbergk, Helena
Flykten
Tora och Sam
Stjärnfolket
Den trettonde månaden
Häxornas bok
En lektion i skräck
Megavega och Supernova
Ängel
Young Adult
Berg Johansson, Karina
Jedvik, Hanna
Nordin, Sofia
Olsson, Ingrid
Sandén, Mårten
Wahldén, Christina
Synvilla
Maskrosflickor
Krinolinprinsessor
Komma över
De dödas imperium
I gryningen tror jag att mamma ska väcka mig
Non Fiction
Borgström, Håkan
Borgström, Håkan
Jonasson, Ingela
Kroppens mysterier
Naturens mysterier
Pyssla tillsammans
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