Picture books

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Berta in the Park

Zakiya Ajmi, Siri Melchior

Berta and mum don't have anything particular planned for today. They are only going for a walk in the park to get a bit of fresh air. But in the park, you never know what might happen. Berta in the Park forms part of a series of picture boo...

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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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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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Jeppe and Asta and the Kindergarten Magic

Jacob Ludvigsen, Mie Vestergaard, Millis Sarri

Jeppe is quite nervous about starting at the new kindergarten. He can barely get his own name out when the teacher asks. But then he meets Asta. She doesn't seem to be afraid of anything. And Asta shows Jeppe the big slide. The one where ma...

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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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Loui is scared of the dark

Jørgen Stamp

Loui is mighty afraid. He has forgotten his elephant on the bench outside and now it is pitch dark. His friend, Mo, appears brave, but when he hears the strange sounds from the garden, he loses courage too. But they find a torch and decide ...

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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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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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Tadaaah

Zarah Juul

The book invites you to spend many hours of cosy and educational experiences. The detailed world-spreads invite the child on an imaginative journey. After each world is a picture dictionary page with vignettes and words. By following Tadaaa...

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The Spider

John Kenn Mortensen, Jesper Wung-Sung

A small spider sits in its empty web. It's been so long since it has caught anything. Wind and weather are ruining its work. The spider feels dead tired. But then it finally senses something big...As a young writer - on 25 May - Hans Christ...

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Book of Thoughts: I think, therefore I feel

Ina Victoria Haller, Thomas Hjorthaab

Pleasant thoughts cause pleasant feelings and unpleasant thoughts cause unpleasant or difficult feelings. In other words, it's not always the situation you're in that triggers your emotions, but what you think about the situation.Through th...

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Tommy the Racing Bike

Sabine Lemire, Jenz Koudahl

Tommy the racing bike loves a good race. He is not keen on rust and flat tyres. Tommy's frame is shiny and newly polished and his tyres are pumped up hard. He is the kind of racing bike that many people dream of. Therefore he stays off the ...

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A Good Gift?! On the Magical Power of Gifts

Nana Torp, Mette My Madsen

Gifts exist all over the world - from Asia to America and from Sibiria to Africa. But what are gifts actually? Why do we give them and why do we get upset and sad if we never receive any back?

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Bone Bowling

Carsten René Nielsen, Mette Marcussen

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 thinking about as you read it?Bone Bowling is a quirky and fabulating poetry collection for childre...

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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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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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Freja and the Dragon

Thomas Hjorthaab, Kasper Hoff

Freja is quite fed up! Her parents are so boring at breakfast and she is getting really bored. But then suddenly, all hell breaks lose when a hungry dragon arrives at her front door. Freja needs to act quick - and on her own, because her pa...

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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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Maria Gives Birth to a Child

Kim Fupz Aakeson, Signe Kjær

Maria is in love and engaged to be married with Joseph. Everything is as it should be. Until the archangel, Gabriel, shows himself to her and says: "You will give birth to a child. A son. A human child." But how can that be right, when Mari...

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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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Tiny Toot and the Elephant Wash (4)

Maria Mac Dalland

In this fourth book, Tiny Toot, Gato and Nisse are once again off in Nisse's ecolicoptor. They land in the jungle where they meet an elephant baby, bathing in the muddy pond with its mum. The baby elephant finds it difficult to stand still,...

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Wilbert

Bárður Oskarsson

A mouse and Wilbert play hide and seek. A crocodile wants to help the mouse, but it turns out to be harder than the crocodile had imagined… Do we always see – or do we always want to see – things as they are …

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I search and search and search...

Rasmus Bregnhøi

A boy "wakes up" in his room, surrounded by stuffed animals, toys, posters, and pictures. His favourite toy, the two "Wellie Sisters", are standing at the foot of the bed, but they disappear through a hole in the wall where the mirror had b...

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