Picture Book Highlights

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Anthony & Grandma at the Bottom of the Sea

Thomas Brunstrøm, Thorbjørn Christoffersen

Anthony's parents are really busy, so the regular visits to Grandma are popular with the little boy. And no wonder: in this first book a boring bath situation is swiftly turned into the most amazing adventure, as Anthony and Grandma travel ...

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Little Wee Finds Donna

Merete Pryds Helle, Charlotte Pardi

Donna is happy in her family and is the center of everyone's attention. However, out of the blue, she has to learn to share that attention, when the elderly owner of her brother, Little Wee, has to go into care. Little Wee needs a new home ...

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Magic Sight

Ane Bjørn

If you close one eye and cover it with two fingers, you will get magic sight: this is the frame in which Ane Bjørn places her tale of a refugee family and a little girl’s insistence to see the beauty of the world in the middle of its hor...

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The Horizon and whatnot

Lilian Brøgger, Tina Sakura Bestle

The Horizon (and that sort of thing) is a fairy tale-like story about war, loss, love and miracles. It is the story about Daimi who is at cross-roads in her life after her husband has left her – she decides to become a pirate and sets off...

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Eddie goes to the Zoo

Thomas Brunstrøm, Thorbjørn Christoffersen

Eddie is going to the Zoo. He has been looking forward to it all week. And fortunately it will be even more fun than Eddie had anticipated and Dad had hoped for.

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Sally's Dad turns YouTuber

Thomas Brunstrøm, Thorbjørn Christoffersen

Sally’s dad has a problem. Sally thinks that it is much better fun to watch YouTube videos rather than listening to his stories. So he embarks on a new career. He wants to become a youtuber and starts filming everything from irritating pr...

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The Fish Girl

Søren Jessen

In a house on a hilltop, the autistic boy, Frede, and his older sister are home alone. A violent storm has hit their area and all land around them has been washed away by flooding, leaving their hilltop house on a small island in the sea. T...

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The Day the Farts Disappeared

Line Meyer

Professor Gut Flora creates both big and small farts, slimy and dry farts, bomb farts and stinky farts every single day in her fart laboratory. And she is really good at it. There is just one problem… even when Flora does her very utmost ...

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Emil is hungry

Inger Tobiasen

Emil is hungry. He finds a bun. Lettuce and tomato. Cucumber and cheese. And a burger. What's he up to?This is a robust board book series made for small, eager hands. The books are ideal for language training and vocabulary enhancement. The...

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Sausage does not want to go to Daycare (4)

Oliver Zahle, Siri Melchior

Today, Sausage does not want to go to kindergarten. In the end, Dad lets her stay at home, but it turns out to be rather hard work playing with Dad for a whole day...The Sausage series is a cute story about a little girl and her Dad; about ...

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Mermaids

Stine Bødker, Emil Landgreen

Mermaids are the most stunning creatures imaginable. Beautiful and otherworldly with mesmerizing voices. Strong, independent and sometimes dangerous. But who are they really? Are they nature spirits? Fable animals? Goddesses? Or just secret...

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Münchhausen: the Baron's (almost) true tales

Tore Leifer, Anja Gram

In this new book about Baron von Münchausen's stories, he has been given a bunch of grandchildren (in reality he was childless) and is telling them stories in front of the fireplace. Thus the scene is set for children and childish souls to...

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Something happens to an Animal: Anna rescues a Bumble Bee (1)

Rasmus Bregnhøi, Peter Nordahl

Anna with the red beanie loves to sit by the big window and look out into her garden. And she loves animals. One day a bumble bee flies through the garden door and it cannot get out again. Anna has to rescue it.There are now four books in t...

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Sometimes I Wonder where Infinity Ends

Inger Tobiasen

Before you go to sleep is often the moment when all sorts of thoughts announce their arrival. The boy in Inger Tobiasen’s lovely and heart-warming picture book has an avalanche of thoughts – about sleeping fish, the universe, love and t...

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Ida series

Inger Tobiasen

Inger Tobiasen speaks directly to the child who will have no difficulty recognising the feelings, neither when it comes to the language used, nor the expressive illustrations, which invite the child to “read” the story by just looking a...

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Fanni's Green Book (1)

Inger Tobiasen

Fanni wants to sleep. Dragon wants to sleep too, but his stomach rumbles, and he farts, and Fanni does not like that. She moves farther away, but Dragon's fart sounds very loud, so eventually Fanni wipes him away with her eraser. She still ...

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Dream Bikes and Soccer Dogs - Poems for Children

Carsten René Nielsen

Dream Bikes and Soccer Dogs is a wonderful collection of poems for children, packed with unusual imagery, and with stunning illustrations by Mette Marcussen.In the words of the White Raven committee:Dream Bikes and Soccer Dogs is a poetic g...

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Feathers fall like snow

Karen Filskov

Part of the WHITE RAVEN LIBRARY 2021 and shortlisted for the BIENNALE OF ILLUSTRATIONS BRATISLAVA 2021The Cuckoo never gets to know his mum, the Vulture has his own internet high up above the savanna, the Vogelkop Bowerbird uses art to attr...

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Jungle Dreams

Anna Knakkergaard, Julie Dam

Through a series of stories, the child is encouraged to help the animals in the Jungle Dreams to find peace, so that both the child and the animals can fall asleep.There are many reasons why the animal children have difficulty sleeping. The...

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Gregory's Garden

Christine Lund Jakobsen, Zarah Juul

Gregory loves his beautiful garden, which he keeps firmly closed with a big gate. What he really wants is peace. One day a creature with green fingers knocks on his door to ask for a favour and soon after several more come knocking. Gregory...

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Book of Farts: an Encyclopeadia of Farts

Stine og Hannah Dreyer

Everybody farts! Even Queen Elizabeth and Justin Bieber. You probably know farts best from yourself, your family, and your friends. But how does a fart become a fart?This is exactly what mother/daughter duo, Stine and Hannah Dreyer set out ...

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Frantz goes to a House Party (9)

Katrine Marie Guldager

Frantz is going to his first house party at Charlotte’s place. He is looking forward to it, but his friend, Karl, thinks that this party is for babies. And he repeats this comment so many times that he almost ruins the party. Especially f...

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Inventions, Knitted Beanies and a Mean Cat

Rasmus Bregnhøi

The friends we make are not always the most obvious ones - this is one of the universal messages in this beautiful picture book about the mouse and cat that make best friends despite all odds.Rasmus Bregnhøi is one of the best illustrators...

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The Tree

Bárður Oskarsson

The characters in this pearl of a book are animals with recognisable human traits and feelings and Bárður Oskarsson lets them juggle some of life’s ethical and existential question without offering any easy answers. With his subtle humo...

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