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I Wish It Could All Be Undone

Signe Kjær, Anne Sofie Hammer

Everyone knows the conflict at bedtime. The tucking-in situation that should be cosy and safe, but ends in defiance and frustration. It's evening, but the child is certainly not tired, and when the parents insist and kiss goodnight, th...

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Bear Child

Ane Bjørn

Gro has a bear inside. A big bear with sharp claws and a rumbling roar that can shake the whole world. The bear comes when Gro is teased at school or when her parents argue. It comes when Gro is sad. Or when Gro doesn't want to be Gro becau...

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The Shadow Child

Cecilie Eken

The Shadow Child and The Light Child live with Mum and Dad. But the parents don't want the Shadow Child in the house because she is defiant and troublesome and disturbs the idyllic happiness of the family. Furious at their rejection, the Sh...

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Jamie Penguin does Something about the Climate

Rasmus Bregnhøi, Sabine Lemire

Mum Jytte and Dad Finn are absolutely miserable because they've heard on the radio that the poles are melting - and what will happen to their family at the South Pole?Jamie Penguin can't stand all the noise, so he decides to build a climate...

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Berta in the Swimming Pool

Zakiya Ajmi, Siri Melchior

Berta and mum don't have anything speciel planned for today. They are just going to the swimming pool for a dip. And in the swimming pool, you never know what might happen. A gorgeous book about losing your way, being found again and about ...

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Sausage does not want to tidy up

Oliver Zahle, Siri Melchior

Meet Sausage!Or rather, that's not her name at all. It's just something her dad calls her because he thinks she's so cute he could eat her. A bit like a sausage in a hot dog with ketchup and roasted onions. Dad often pretends he wants to ea...

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Jeppe and Asta and the Fight for the Swing

Jacob Ludvigsen, Mie Vestergaard, Millis Sarri

A brand new swing has arrived at the kindergarten. Jeppe and Asta can't wait to try it out, but Asta gets a little too excited. The new swing is very popular and Nille runs really fast towards the swing. Until she stops running. She falls a...

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Forget Me Not

Jakob Agermose

My mum is a forget-me-not,A bloom of white without a spotAnd I’m a quiet melodyJust hibernating sleepilyWilliam's mum digs a hole in the vegetable garden so deep that she disappears. Dad has to go out and pull her back up. The next mornin...

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Team Nuggets: Karla's Fantalastic Diary

Tor Fruergaard, Michael Hegner

‘WHEN I GROW UP, I WANT TO BE: A ninja fighting space worms in outer space.’This is how Karla writes in her Fantalastic Diary. Find out all about her thoughts as she talks about her family and friends, the funniest and worst things she'...

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Team Nuggets: How to be a Good Friend

Pernille Bønløkke Toustrup, Tor Fruergaard, Michael Hegner

What does it mean to be a good friend?Team Nuggets: How to be a Good Friend is a read-aloud book full of fun and recognisable everyday dilemmas as they appear to Karla the chicken.Each chapter tells a story about a day among the friends in ...

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Team Nuggets: Emotion Relay Race

Pernille Bønløkke Toustrup, Tor Fruergaard, Michael Hegner

Angry, sad, happy, shy - what emotion have you passed on to a friend today?Team Nuggets: Emotion Relay Race is a story that shows how we affect each other with our moods when we are together.In a fun and recognisable story, Karla and her fr...

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Bone Bowling

Carsten René Nielsen, Mette Marcussen

This poetry collection opens poetry for children by fabulating both gruesomly, funnily and quietly. What does a ghost's earwax taste like? Where can you bowl with a skull? Who invented the umbrella for spiders? And what is the poem actually...

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Armed

Zakiya Ajmi

You have to be well-prepared when suddenly you have to stay overnight at grandma's place without mum. You need a good-sized arsenal of weapons if you want to be protected. Mum says that grandma offers protection. Pfff! Grandma?!With illustr...

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Omnia's House

Cecilie Eken, Maren Tjelta Thu

Omnia's house has room for everyone. In fact, the house offers everything a child could possibly want: community, fun, a place where you can use your imagination and play and learn.Omnia greets all the different children who come knocking o...

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Free Frog

Charlotte Pardi, Rebecca Bach-Lauritsen

Frog lives in the bog. Frog's friends jump, croak and swim. But Frog thinks the water is too wet. Frog prefers to fly. How difficult can it be? The Danish publisher, Gutkind, have once more created some great extra material - take a look he...

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Wilma and Dad bake Pancakes

Signe Kjær, Simone Lykke

Wilma and dad are going to bake pancakes and they go to the grocery store. What do they need? Where do they find them? And where do the raw ingredients actually come from?

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Book of Mess

Jørgen Stamp

In this book, everything is very messy. The Dog, Giraffe, Bear and Badger families are very very busy. They have to put on their clothes, they have to cook, they have to put together a jigsaw puzzle ... and many other things. But they clear...

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Kyle and Giraffe build a Car

Jørgen Stamp

Like most children, Kyle likes to do his own thing and often (at the beginning of the stories) prefers to manage everything himself. But he soon realises that it's much more fun to be with others. In the Kyle and Giraffe books, there is alw...

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Fanni sews a blue rabbit

Inger Tobiasen

Fanni sews a funny little rabbit, but the rabbit hides from her and she cannot find it again. She looks in many places before she finally discovers him, together with a surprise.The book is part of a series of five books where Inger Tobiase...

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The Day Leopold got Envious

Dina Gellert

Leopold is at Top Pig's birthday party. Top Pig gets lots of presents, but there is one in particular that makes Leopold very jealous. So jealous that he does something really stupid that he should never have done...The stories about ...

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