Rights Catalogue Fall 2018 Picture books Picture books YUCK to all things What Would It Be Like If sweet and fluffy! the Grown-ups Decided Everything? Jag hatar kaniner och blommor och barn I Hate Rabbits and Flowers and Children Per Nilsson & Lisen Adbåge What’s the point of flowers anyway? All they do is try to look pretty. Same thing with butterflies. Totally pointless. They’re not even delicious, they just taste like paper. I hate rabbits and flowers and children and butterflies. In this book, we meet a grumpy chap who doesn’t like anything at all. Well, a few things excepted – he likes old sausages, dead crows, wee, poo and Tage. He loves Tage more than anything. Join this game of hide-and- seek with a very grumpy old dog who doesn’t like sweet, fluffy nonsense! 195x254, 32 pp, 3–6 years A story about divorcing parents Pang Poff Pavlo Bam Boom Billy Eva Staaf & Clara Dackenberg Bam Boom Billy is a story about Billy, whose mum and dad are getting divorced. The day he finds out about the Gropen divorce, it feels like his world has been The Hole Behind The Gym turned upside-down. But fortunately, Emma Adbåge he is not alone, as there are lots of children with divorced parents. This There’s a big hole behind the school gym. Someone dug out a includes many of Billy’s friends, all of load of gravel there years ago, and now it’s full of weeds and tree whom have experienced divorce in their stumps. It’s a really fun place to play, and you can be in there for own unique ways. And it is through his hours playing all kinds of different games. Everyone loves “The Hole” friends that Billy learns some important except the grown-ups. They hate it! life lessons. Even if things break with Emma Adbåge’s The Hole Behind The Gym is a lovely picture a BAM and come to an end with a book about the power of play and imagination. It tells of timid BOOM, eventually things tend to work grown-ups and about never giving up. For what would the world be out just fine. like if grown-ups decided everything? 215x280, 32 pp, 4+ Emma Adbåge is one of Sweden’s best-loved children’s authors. She has received numerous prizes for her books and has twice Bam Boom Billy is the first book in Eva Staaf’s been nominated for the prestigious August Prize. upcoming series, Difficult Day Stories. 215x280, 40 pp, 3–6 years 2 3 Picture books Picture books Fantastic machines Om orm Utk sep. Inb 96 s. 3–6 år. The SnakeISBN 978-91-29-71183-7 Sara Villius & Mari Kanstad Johnsen you can drive and fly What does Snake eat? Snake is tired and hungry and is dreaming about his next Imagine all the ways you can travel, both on road and through the air. These books show you the things you meal. But what does Snake eat? A mouse? A sheep? Or maybe expect, the cars, tractors and dump trucks, the aeroplanes, rockets and balloons, but also reveal the things even an elephant? you won’t: the sausage car and the galactic bus, the flying carrot and the cake plane. Here are the real and Following in the success of their picture book Natten (The the wacky, the factual and the fantastic in illustrations using black and white and bright primary colours. Night), Sara Villius and Mari Kanstad Johnsen have created yet Carl Johanson studied at St Martin’s School of Art in London, and took a Master’s in Graphic Design and another excellent read-aloud book for early readers. What kind Illustration in Stockholm. His 2015 debut, All Kinds of Cars, a collection of real and imagined road vehicles, of animals is Snake dreaming about? Look and guess! This is an was a huge success and has been sold to ten countries so far. The companion volume, All Kinds of Planes interactive book with lots of humour and beautiful illustrations. takes to the air in both real and fantasy flying machines and in a similarly invigorating style. Both books 260x205, 40 pp, 3–6 years inform, entertain and inspire. There is also a series of board books for very young children. Carls billexikon Arbetsfordon All Kinds of Cars Construction 200x261, 40 pp, *2015, 3–6 yrs 160x160, 20 pp, *2019, 0–3 yrs Carls flyglexikon Brandkåren All Kinds of Planes Firefighters 245x317, 40 pp, *2017, 3–6 yrs 160x160, 20 pp, *2019, 0–3 yrs Ambulansen Emma stannar hemma Ambulance Emma Stays at Home 160x160, 20 pp, *2019, 0–3 yrs 160x160, 24 pp, *2016, 0–3 yrs Staden City 160x160, 20 pp, *2019, 0–3 yrs The Night by the same authors 4 5 Picture books Picture books Press Voices: Photo “Lindenbaum paints Uncle : Ulrica Zwenger New Picture book Tommy’s shirts and retro furniture with verve and her pacing is sure as she sees Mini Mia’s struggle through to its resolution. The emotions stay true and by the by Pija Lindenbaum denouement, Mini Mia’s wrath has been reconciled wordlessly and authentically.” (PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY about “If modern children’s books can become Mini Mia and her Uncle Darling) classics, then Bridget and the Grey “With her unmistakable style, she invites us into yet another picture Wolves has every chance of doing so.” book where the inner strength of FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG the child is emphasized.” about Bridget and the Grey Wolves (SVENSKA DAGBLADET about Siv’s First Sleep-over) Pija Lindenbaum’s characters include Bidde det då? Gittan, Åke, Mini Mia, Kenta, Siv and The Master Tailor Cerisia; urban, willful and never goody- Pija Lindenbaum goody. They are brought vividly to life in 230x230, 40 pp, 3–6 years water-colour and pen and ink illustrations using playful angles and perspectives Pija Lindenbaum retells this classic Swedish folktale, The Master Tailor, to create a sprightly, kinetic energy. about a little man who is promised a wonderful coat by a tailor, but ends Gittan och gråvargarna Written from the child’s perspective, up with nothing. The result is a magical story about setbacks and the Bridget and the Grey Wolves Lindenbaum’s books are highly distinctive power of dreams. 220x268, 40 pp, *2000, 3–6 yrs and instantly recognisable, celebrating the child’s imagination, embracing the Gittan och fårskallarna Bridget and the Numbskulls feelgood but never shying away from 219x266, 40 pp, *2001, 3–6 yrs the difficulties children face. Her books have been translated and sold in sixteen Gittan och älgbrorsorna territories and have been nominated for Bridget and the Elk Brothers several international awards, winning both 220x268, 40 pp, *2003, 3–6 yrs the August Prize and the Deutscher När Åkes mamma glömde bort Jugendliteraturpreis in 2012. When Owen’s Mom Breathed Fire 220x252, 32 pp, *2005, 3–6 yrs Lill-Zlatan och morbror raring Mini Mia and Her Uncle Darling 220x269, 40 pp, *2006, 3–6 yrs Kenta och barbisarna Kennie and Dolly 220x263, 40 pp, *2007, 3–6 yrs 6 7 Picture books Astrid Lindgren Lazy summer days När vi skrämde gammelgäddan The Day We Scared the Old Pike Elin Johansson & Astrid Tolke If you lie on your tummy down at the pier, you can see right to the bottom of the lake. There are lots of fine fish in the water and we love feeding them oatmeal. It’s so much fun that we’re there day after day. But then a big pike comes along and eats all the little fish. Horrid old Alla ska sova för nu är det natt pike – we’d better make sure we give him a good fright! Night has come 195x254, 32 pp, 3–6 years Astrid Lindgren & Marit Törnqvist A song by Astrid Lindgren that first appeared in the story The remained in close contact until Astrid’s death in 2002. They shared Children of the Noisy Village has now been transformed into a a love for the landscape of Småland, where they spent childhood bedtime story alongside wonderful illustrations by Marit Törnqvist. summers (albeit sixty years apart), and this strongly influences Marit and Astrid worked closely together during the 1990s, Marit’s illustrations for Astrid’s writing. The light, the colours and the collaborating on several picture books, including A Calf for materials reflect the characters’ feelings, creating a universal world Christmas, The Day Adam got Mad, In the Land of Twilight and that every child can enjoy. The Red Bird. Having first become friends in Marit’s childhood, they 200x240, 32 pp, 3–6 years Jul i Bullerbyn Vår i Bullerbyn Kalle – den lille tjurfäktaren Christmas in Noisy Village Spring in Noisy Village The Day Adam got Mad Crazy Auntie Meg is back! Astrid Lindgren & Ilon Wikland Astrid Lindgren & Ilon Wikland Astrid Lindgren & Marit Törnqvist Adam the bull got loose right in the middle of Ett super-duper-fantastiskt campingäventyr Christmas is so much fun! All the children When spring arrives, all the children in Noisy Super Duper Amazing Adventure in Noisy Village are helping with the Village go wild. They climb on the barn roof, Easter Morning and came thundering along preparations. They walk to the forest where they ride on the bull. They balance along the with eyes blazing. Svensson, the cowman, Megan Everett Skarsgård & Maria Nilsson Thore they cut down the Christmas trees – one for top of the fence and clomp through the mud. was running for dear life managed to scramble Auntie Meg comes to visit a couple of times a year.