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Picture books...... 5 Fiction 6-9...... 32 Fiction 9-12...... 42 Graphic novels...... 48 Young adult...... 54

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himmel o pannkakak inlaga.indd 4 2016-01-05 09.56 We and the Others Never Satisfied! Lasse Arnell & Anna-Karin Garham Mathieu Pierloot & Baptiste Amsallen

Siv and Jim are two tough blue tits. They like to hang out Isn’t it always fun to receive presents? But why are people on the camellia balcony with their friends, munching on never satisfied? This is the first book by Mathieu Pierloot and chips. But suddenly the weather changes. It thunders and Baptiste Amsallem published by La Pastèque. Parents and kids hails like there was no tomorrow. The purple birds also want will no doubt recognize themselves in the situation… to find shelter on the balcony. Siv thinks that there’s room for everybody. But Jim says absolutely no! He thinks that the Mathieu Pierloot was born in the very year The Cure released purple birds should stay over there, on the other side of the Seventeen Seconds, but he never got into music. He chose garden and hide under the rhubarb leaves… writing instead, unleashing his creativity in the realm of comics, novels and children’s books. He lives in Brussels with his wife, A lovely picture book with a highly topical theme. Who are his daughter and a cat. “we” and who are “they”? Baptiste Amsallem works both as an illustrator and as a comic strip artist. He published his first book in 2010, and then a second came, and a tenth, and a fifteenth… He particularly enjoys writing for toddlers, and he works with many publishing Title: Vi och dom andra houses. Published by Hippo, May 2016 230 x 260 mm, 32 pp Title: Jamais contents! Published by La Pastèque, 2016 190 x 240 mm, 32 pp

6 KOJA AGENCY · RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 · KOJA AGENCY Dragon Fire At Night We Fly Åsa Mendel-Hartvig & Ane Gustavsson Hannah Arnesen

No one notices Millie sneaking out in the middle of the This is Anna. Åsa Mendel-Hartvig & Ane Gustavsson Åsa Mendel-Hartvig & Ane Gustavsson night. Just the trees watch. During the day she’s slow. She hurries in her boots and rescues worms along the way. Turn around, they sing. Go back little one! The dragon has But at night...

Pari unda solupta dolorepudit expliquat. Quiandi squibus solorum voluptaqui bernatent audis come. You’re not safe here! But the stars twinkle at Millie, At night she is a lion queen, running barefoot in the savannah esequam faccaestium dolore dolo omniet entio expe- rum enimolo rrundit velent. Dem volut vel iusdam facea eleceatetur? the moon flowers smell wonderful, and it was long since the Luptatur suntin consed quas amet eatisqui beatur and is faster than the sun. simusam quam quiaesed et velitis tionsequo od ulpa voluptatus ilit dolor modipsum as cusaesequo bere audicabo. Ficitia dolore voluptate plis dusdandit vol- humans understood the trees’ language. At home, big sister uptati debissim faccum et omnime ipietum et alitat audis plitatur? Drakeld Vid qui res eri dolorestrum nonsequi beat optaturia pos dolorene aut eiciis ped ea sitium endam fugiam Malva wakes up with a jolt. A tap on the window, maybe a During the day, the children in the neighborhood are ordinary branch? Little sister’s bed is empty. Malva senses the danger kids. They live in apartment blocks, listen to the radio with and runs after. grandpa or pick their nose, they are bored and want out. But at night, they do everything they dream of doing. Someone By the spring in the woods, there are water lilies and singing stands on the roof and plays the trumpet, another one hands frogs. With a delighted shriek, Millie throws a stone in the out hot dogs to all the children and is friends with everybody in water. Then the dragon opens its mouth. It’s just a newly- the whole city. Drakeld hatched, little dragon – unaware of its powers to burn when An imaginative, accessible and fun picture book for children frightened. Look out! Malva screams. But it’s too late. who dream of freedom and self-determination, and for the

Katalogomslag_Drakeld.indd 16-18 2016-01-08 13:47:23 adults who might need to remind themselves to dream a bit Title: Drakeld Through enchanting imagery, a special tale of sorrow, sister- Title: På natten flyger vi more. What would you do at night, if you could? Published by Natur & Kultur, August 2016 Published by Natur & Kultur, 2016 hood and love’s liberating powers is told. 220 x 290 mm, 32 pp 210 x 280 mm, 32 pp Hannah Arnesen is a visual artist. She studies picture book Åsa Mendel-Hartvig and Ane Gustavsson is a strong storytelling at HDK, the School of Design and Crafts in Gothen- picture book duo, who has previously created the books burg and works in a bookstore. At Night We Fly is her debut. about Otis and Wake up, My Chestnut.

8 KOJA AGENCY · RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 · KOJA AGENCY 9 The Pancake Party Eva Lindell & Cecilia Heikkilä

When Mambrass invites his friends to a party, all the hungry guests help out in the kitchen. They whisk, mash, munch, slurp and get all sticky!

An original and humorous story for the youngest party people. A pancake recipe for up to 134 guests is included.

Title: Himmel och pannkaka Published by Berghs, March 2016 267 x 220 mm, 32 pp

himmel o pannkakak inlaga.indd 28 2016-01-05 09.58

Nu blev det fart på gästerna att hjälpa till med baket. De vispa, knäckte ägg och vände pannkakor i taket.

himmel o pannkakak inlaga.indd 22 2016-01-05 09.58 himmel o pannkakak inlaga.indd 23 2016-01-05 09.58 10 KOJA AGENCY · RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 · KOJA AGENCY 11 Today I Don’t Know Who I Am The Seed Ida Sundin Asp Jennie Ekström

In the mirror there is someone else. In a wordless picture universe that somehow reminds of Is that me? I have to look for myself. Hans Arnold’s and Maurice Sendak’s, we get to meet a boy “Where am I? Are you my granddaughter?” who with the help of a magical seed, a message in a bottle I recognize you, but I don’t know who you are. and a little luck, makes a new friend. Thanks to the seed that Do I have a cat? the boy sends to the girl, stuck on the island of loneliness, she is able to grow a plant that stretches above the sea. And Ida Sundin Asp debuts as both author and illustrator with he can climb up on their plant and meet her. a drastic and empathetic picture book about dementia. The sharp and straightforward prose together with the A black and white book full of details and fi ne lines, printed illustrations create a melancholic yet humorous portrait on thick beautiful paper. A book to get lost into, telling a of a forgetful grandfather that rediscovers life every day. new story every night.

Jennie Ekström is an illustrator. She makes detailed, intimate illustrations in ink, often inspired by nature. She has worked with everything from advertising campaigns, magazines, books, clothing collections to more artistic colla- borations and projects. This is her fi rst book. A book for fans Title: Fröet of Shaun Tan and Jimmy Liao. Title: Idag vet jag inte vem jag är Published by Natur & Kultur, September 2016 Published by Urax, March 2016 170 x 230 mm, 64 pp 210 x 285 mm, 32 pp

12 KOJA AGENCY · RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 · KOJA AGENCY Words Where Are You? Klara Persson

Words where are you? is a story about love. About Solvej who really likes Mitten but doesn’t know how to tell her. When she opens her mouth it’s like the words are stuck inside or like they’ve disappeared altogether. What do you do when the words are gone? And how do you really tell someone how much you like them?

Just like Klara Persson’s other books, Words Where Are You?

is an innovative picture book for all ages with a playful yet – �et �r �u jag som �ill�r �ig �er än b�d�i�ton, sv�rade ������. accessible language. – Är det? sa ���v�j. Me� �a� gi�l�r dig mer än ��pcorn. – Du b���dar ���� ��� he�� t���� ! �a �a�ten. Jag gil��r ��� �er än po�c���. Klara Persson is an illustrator, author and graphic designer. She studied at HDK , School of Design and Crafts in Gothenburg and debuted in 2012 with the picture book Molly & Sus for which she received the Swedish Slangbellan Award and Snöbollen, the Award for the best Swedish Title: Orden var är ni? OTHER BOOKS BY KLARA PERSSON Published by Urax, 2015 Picture Book of the Year. She was nominated for the August 221 x 280 mm, 32 pp Prize both in 2013 for her own Maximilian & Minimilian and Maximilian and Minimilian in 2014 for Jag blir en bubbla (I Become a Bubble) with text by Malin Axelsson. Maximilian and Minimilian are friends. Minimilian is small enough to sit on Maximilian’s shoulders. Maximilian is so big he has the strength to carry Minimilian around. But does it have to be like that? Can’t they take turns sometimes?

”Brilliant picture book art” Dagens Nyheter

”This is full-featured, clever and utterly amazing picture book art. Klara Persson has gone from a promising debut to an authorship to be reckoned with.” Helsingborgs Dagblad

Molly & Sus

Molly and Sus’ braids were stuck together already from the start. It’s hard to get dressed with your hair like that! And why does Molly have to pedal so slowly when Sus wants to ride her bike really fast? Why must they bump into each other all the time? HELP, what will happen?

��� ��n��� � k�ä�ec�en �ch ��od på hä���r, men b��stäv�r�a ”Klara Persson’s stories are headstrong, playful thought experiments that tri��a�e ändå i�t� u� på tunga�. �o� åk�� bara ��t och dit inut�. blossom into fully fledged picture books”Opsis Kalopsis ��m la �ig på rad i ha�sen �ch b��� so� �� lite� �ög av ���n. Det hj��pt� ���e att harkla �ig el�er att �osta. ”I pause before Klara Persson’s debut “Molly & Sus”, which rightfully has been awarded both the picture book prize Snöbollen as well as debut prize Slangbellan. It is like no other.” Dagens Nyheter Rights sold to France and the Czech Republic 14 KOJA AGENCY · RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 · KOJA AGENCY 15 The Bathtub Per Gustavsson

Lisa is taking a bath. It’s nice and warm in the tub. What if there was no water? Then there would be no life, says dad. Lisa has heard about the jellyfish. And she tells dad that she knows that the animals crawled up on land after that. Strange animals were alive back then, like a cat that looked like a tiger and only ate fruit. And then came the apes. “But what came after the apes, dad?” “Then there was you.”

Small children ask big questions. A picture book in which a conversation between a young girl and her dad turns into a wonderfully imaginative story of how everything came to be.

Per Gustavsson is an illustrator and author who lives and works in Stockholm. Educated at HDK in Gothenburg, Per made ​​his first children’s book in 1995 and since then there has been a lot of books, including those about the wayward and outspoken Princess, that have sold more than 160,000 Title: Badbaljan copies and are published in all the Nordic countries. Published by Natur & Kultur, September 2016 220 x 290 mm, 32 pp Per Gustavsson won the Elsa Beskow Plaque for Skuggsidan (The Shadow Side) in 2014. He is a member of the Swedish Children’s Book Academy.

OTHER BOOKS BY PER GUSTAVSSON

”a wonderful story about courage, curiosity and willpower […] Sindre’s journey towards the moon inspires young as old” Tidningen Kulturen

“Per Gustavsson’s children’s books aren’t like others’. That was already evident in his much enjoyed Princess series, in which the small royalty don’t always behave like their fairy tale counterparts. Same innovative thinking is found in the author’s two latest picture books” Södermanlands Nyheter The Moon Tower The Shadow Side, winner of the Elsa Beskow Plaque 2014

16 KOJA AGENCY · RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 · KOJA AGENCY 17 Great Grandma, Daisy and Death Anna Ehring & Lotta Geffenblad

Great grandma and Daisy have arranged the shrew-mouse’s funeral with flowers and beautiful songs. “Well, that was the little death, let’s see it as a practice before the big one comes”, says great grandma. “The big death?” says Daisy and stares at her for saying such terrible things. “Yes, that’s when we or someone we love dies”, says great grandma. The sun is warm and the cordial is good. Daisy and great grandma decide that death should keep away for a while.

Anna Ehring has attended the Biskops Arnö Writing School She has also studied Natural Sciences and worked as an ac- tress. In 2010 she was nominated for the August Prize and in 2012 she received the Nils Holgersson Plaque for the series Drakhjärta (Dragon Heart).

Title: Gammelmormor, Daisy och döden Lotta Geffenblad is a Swedish illustrator and animator, Published by Urax, April 2016 educated at Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm. 210 x 278 mm, 32 pp In 2009 Lotta was awarded the Elsa Beskow Plaque for her illustrations.

Vi gör en bukett till näbbmusen, med ett blått band om stjälkarna. – Vad vackert det blir! säger jag. Gammelmormor nickar.

IN THE SAME SERIES Great Grandma and Love

Daisy is visiting her great grandma. But great grandma is different. She giggles, spills her coffee and isn’t listening to Daisy like she always does. Is she sick? Or maybe in love? Is it possible to be in love when you’re almost a hundred years old?

“It’s easy to love a book like Great Grandma and Love.” Expressen

“Lotta Geffenblad is at her best - and the great grandchild learns that no one is too old for love.” Svenska Dagbladet

18 KOJA AGENCY · RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 · KOJA AGENCY 19 Elmer the Chef The Throat Burps, the Heart Beats Ulf Stark & Lotta Geffenblad Lisen Adbåge & Emma Adbåge

People come from all over to eat at Elmer’s restaurant. The Adbåge sisters’ first project together! There’s food enough for police officers, priests, tourists Playful rhymes bound to become future classics. and cyclists, but also for those who are hungry and cold. When Elmer is finally on the way home the King himself In each and every anthology they appear – those well-known calls: Elmer has to help out! verses and rhymes we’ve all heard before. But where are the new ones, those written in our time? Here they are. The Elmer will appear in various professional roles. Planned for rhymes about going shopping with mom and dad, about a the series are: firefighter, cleaners, veterinarian skateboard ramp, and about growing up. In a playful and ... and Elmer’s always the great hero! pleasurable manner, the Adbåge sisters rhyme and illustrate their way through this book – their first project together. A new irresistible picture book character by acclaimed author Ulf Stark and illustrator Lotta Geffenblad. Title: Elmer Kock Emma and Lisen Adbåge have independently been success- Published by Berghs, May 2016 ful as authors and illustrators, and in this book their talent 250 x 200 mm, 32 pp A lot of humor and fun pictures for all the little ones who collide in a colorful and magnificent universe. love to “work”!

Title: Halsen rapar, hjärtat slår Published by Natur & Kultur, September 2016 230 x 260 mm, 64 pp

KOLOFON

KOLOFON

FLYKTEN

Springer på ett fält magen full av svält skorna skaver gud som haver ge mig litet tält

vandrar genom skog TUSEN HÄSTAR benen har fått nog grenar river Tusen hästar går i trav fram jag kliver björkarna har slagit ut tänk nu om jag dog ängarna har inga krav vinden den tar aldrig slut klättrar över berg slut i kropp och märg vattnet rör sig i en sjö ryggen värker trädets bark är slät och sval men jag märker om ett halvår är det snö träden har fått färg stigen hit är väldigt smal

20 KOJA AGENCY · RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 · KOJA AGENCY 21 Freddy Fixer’s Tools Full Speed Into Space! George Johansson & Jens Ahlbom Peter Ekberg & Kjell Thorsson

When Freddy and Buffy comes home from their trip, Spaceships are fantastic machines. They can withstand the they find all the tools in a mess. Freddy starts cleaning cold of space and are able to collide with rocks and gravel up, and at the same time explains to Buffy what all the passing by. tools are used for. When Freddy is done, he has made a practical shelf for the chainsaw, and Buffy has learnt There are spaceships that without a crew can reach places much about carpentry. infinitely far away. Other ones pick up and drop people on the International Space Station - ISS. In the future we might Since the first book, Freddy Fixer has captivated the be able to travel all the way to another star! hearts of young mechanics with his expertise on vehicles, machines and other gadgets. His matter-of- Do you dare to come on board for a tour? The spaceship fact personality makes learning fun and easy. Having takes off now. Full speed into space! been translated into many languages, this popular character is a man of many names: Willy Werkel, Mik Mekanik, Freddy Fixer, Gary Gadget, Masa Mainio, Meistri-Märten, Martin Mekk, Karel Klus etc …

George Johansson is a journalist and writer. He has Title: Mulle Mecks verktyg published numerous works of fiction and non-fiction for Published by Berghs, March 2016 both children and adults. Together with Jens Ahlbom Title: Full fart till rymden! 210 x 255 mm, 40 pp he has created the hugely popular books, computer Published by Berghs, September 2016 games and films about Freddy Fixer. 195 x 265 mm, 32 pp

Jens Ahlbom is one of Sweden’s most famous illustra- hej robot inlaga_samtycksdok_da:Layout 1 14-04-04 11.48 Sida 8 tors of children’s books. He is an art teacher and has illustrated more than 60 books. In 2003, he was awar- Here Come the Robots! ded the prestigious Elsa Beskow Plaque for his work. Part of the jury’s motivation was: “An equal to Freddy Fixer when it comes to ingenuity and craftsmanship.” boten so IN THE SAME SERIES G Ser d u ro m h ar s omnat?

Det finns robotar som spelar schack så bra att de slår världsmästarna.

Freddy Fixer Builds a Car Freddy Fixer’s First Book. Freddy Fixer’s Planes Freddy Fixer’s Trains Machines on the Way

22 KOJA AGENCY · RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 · KOJA AGENCY Ninna and the Baby Sprout Matilda Ruta

When mothers have babies in their belly it’s a secret. But it shows anyway. They throw up, stop smoking, laugh like they are about to cry and kiss one on the head eight times. They are sneaky while they tell grandmother - She does not know yet, but I’ll tell her. Soon. It’s often fun to think that I will become a big sister. Other days one needs to write lists.

1. The baby cannot borrow my beads. 2. It cannot be born on my birthday. 3. And if it screams too much, I’ll move in with dad, one shouts. Do you get it?

Getting a sibling is a big deal. Imagine that suddenly your own adults get a baby so that you can become a sibling! But actually it’s Chance that determines everything. And Chance can be quite mischievous. Title: Ninna och syskongrodden Published by Natur & Kultur, 2016 Unique explorative storytelling. 235 x 300 mm, 32 pp Great picture book art for preschool children. IN THE SAME SERIES

Ninna and the Hospital Birds

At the counter you have to say your name. Both your first and your last name. Now you have to wait in the waiting room, they say. That’s a room where you just wait.

Once in a while, someone comes in and calls out a name. When you hear a name you have to think fast. Is my name Samir? No. Is my name Ester? No.

A poetic picture book in a delightfully larger format about everything that goes on at a hospital. Author and illustrator Matilda Ruta was given the task to make an “artist in hospi- tal” project, which resulted in animations that were exhibited Title: Ninna och sjukhusfåglarna on screens in a hospital entrance. The assignment also gave Published by Natur & Kultur, 2015 her inspiration for this beautiful picture book. 235 x 300 mm, 32 pp Rights sold to Korea, Denmark

KOJA AGENCY · RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 · KOJA AGENCY 25 Felix in Wintertime Véronique Boisjoly & Katty Maurey

Felix, the little fox, returns in a second book! The story takes place in the heart of winter, and Felix spends the holidays with his mom in their cottage. With his friends, the twins Paul and Pauline, he finds a mysterious map that guides them to a secret cabin.

The gentle colors and sweet illustrations in this book enfolds the young reader in the coziness of winter and holiday adventure.

Title: Renaud en hiver Published by La Pastèque, 2015 190 x 240 mm, 104 pp

IN THE SAME SERIES

Felix the Fox

On Saturday mornings, Felix likes to spend time at Mr Li’s launderette with his dad and away from his noisy baby sister. It is their special time…

Au grand bonheur de tous, les parents invitent He draws while dad reads the newspaper; they like to mix Rose et monsieur Laforêt à rester pour le souper. patterns and make up stories, throw socks around and eat ice cream on the bench outside. That is when Lily, Mr Li’s mischievous granddaughter, is not around. Because when she is, their quiet Saturday mornings can quickly turn into chaos!

Rights sold to US

KOJA AGENCY · RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 · KOJA AGENCY 27 Pesco and Me Memmo and Cosy Wait for Winter Sévérine Vidal & Julien Castanié Emma Virke

One day in the deep winter, a little boy decides to go. He Memmo and Cosy are tired of the long, dark autumn. They leaves his parents, his home – everything – to get lost in are tired of all the rain and the mud that get stuck on their the nature around. It is cold and rough, but the little boy boots. But then suddenly it’s cold and the branches on the has made a decision, he doesn’t want to move to the city trees are covered with frost. The puddles get an ice roof and like his parents want him to. He meets Pesco: a long, red, the fi rst snowfl akes begin to fall. Is winter fi nally on its way? friendly and almost real snake. They become friends. First, Pesco follows the little boy. But then, it looks like the little Memmo and Cosy Wait for Winter is the third stand-alone boy is following Pesco. To go where? picture book about Memmo and his friend Cosy.

Adding the pretty and colorful illustrations by Julien Castanié to the beauty of Severine Vidal’s words, Pesco IN THE SAME SERIES and Me is a touching story about freedom, loneliness and feeling at home.

Title: Un pais puis mille Title: Memmo och Mysen väntar på vintern Published by La Pastèque, 2016 Published by Alvina, 2015 190 x 210 mm, 56 pp 210 x 260 mm, 32 pp

All Aboard! America by Train Stormy Trouble for Memmo and Cosy Search for Colors Pascal Blanchet Memmo and Cosy

From the East to the West Coast of Canada and the United States, this book will take you on a transcontinental jour- ney through the history of the greatest American railroads. Discover how they were designed and built, their carefully crafted interiors, and the tales and stories that turn them into legends. Go West, on board these trains that have shaped the history of the railroad in America!

Title: En voiture ! L’Amérique en chemin de fer Published by La Pastèque, 2016

28 KOJA AGENCY · RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 · KOJA AGENCY The Great Antonio Adèle and The Rain Élise Gravel Amélie Callot & Geneviève Godbout

Antonio is 20 years old when he arrives to Canada. With Adèle is the sweet and happy young manager of the Polka- 1,93 m and 225 kilos, he is a big one, and very strong at Dot Apron café. Every day she welcomes customers with a that! Antonio loves to show his strength off. He pulls buses broad smile. Every day except rainy days, because Adèle full of people with his hair, and he fights against Japanese loses all her vivacity and cheerfulness when skies are grey. champions. His mane is tied into thick braids. With metal One day, after all the customers have left, Adèle discovers a rods inside, they become antennas and he can communicate pair of pink rubber boots under the hat stand. Who could it with aliens! be, who left them there? That is only the first of many ques- tions, as something else awaits her at the very same place, a few days later. Un chat adulte pourrait s’y coucher.

Tu pourrais découper un parachute dedans.

Title: Le grand Antonio

Le Grand Antonio aime montrer sa force. Published by La Pastèque, 2014 Assez grand pour deux mini Antonio. Title: Rose à petit pois Ici, il tire un train de quatre-cent-quarante-trois tonnes 190 x 240 mm, 72 pp sur une distance de vingt mètres ! Published by La Pastèque, 2016

BY THE SAME ILLUSTRATOR Joseph is five years old, and he lives in a big house surrounded by five trees. His favorite one is the chestnut tree because there is a birdnest hidden inside. But Joseph’s mom

Et ici, quatre autobus remplis de passagers. doesn’t want him to climb up on the tree: it’s too danger- ous for a little boy. If only he could have another mom, who Le voici en train de soulever d’un seul bras une douzaine doesn’t say no all the time! d’hommes suspendus à un poteau téléphonique. But is this really what he wishes for?

Title: Joseph Fipps Published by La Pastèque, 2012

KOJA AGENCY · RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 · KOJA AGENCY 31 The Giant from the Sea Jöns Mellgren

Isabella gently picks up the little figure. It’s hot as a freshly baked bun against her palms.

She puts her ear to its stomach. She hears a faint ticking noise from in there, and then a muffled humming sound. It sits up and blinks a couple of times in the sunlight.

Parentless Isabella and the little clay lump Oleg become friends. But Oleg is growing and when they get to the city is everyone afraid. Nobody listens to Isabella. Oleg is captured and exhibited as an animal in a cage. Isabella has to muddle on all alone among the city’s garbage. Oleg is big and strong enough to rescue others, but who rescues Oleg unless Isabella dares to?

A poetic and topic book with creative and breathtaking visual perspectives.

Jöns Mellgren is a writer, filmmaker and illustrator. He debuted at Natur & Kultur in 1999 with the picture book Jungelnatt, followed by Mustafa och stormen (2009) and Title: Jätten från havet Rufus i underjorden (2010). In 2013 came the critically Published by Natur & Kultur, September 2016 acclaimed Sigrid och Natten (Elsa and the Night, Little 135 x 190 mm, 200 pp Gestalten).

PRESS FOR ELSA AND THE NIGHT

“Swedish writer-illustrator Mellgren’s eccentric story offers the emotional depth of a novel and artwork worth a gallery showing.”

Publishers Weekly

”beautifully dark and touching tale” Huffington post

“ingenious and gorgeously drawn book”

The New York Times

”Sigrid och Natten is a multilayered, poetic and artistically grandiose picture book about loss and reconciliation. The world of imagery is completely brilliant”

SvD

KOJA AGENCY · RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 · KOJA AGENCY 33 Jag vet att den har rätt. Det är därför jag ska börja i en ny klass i höst. En ny klass med nya barn som jag inte känner och som inte känner mig. Det är inte så att jag inte har lekt alls A Fish Named Fabian String,med de barnen som the har gått i minBird klass, and Me det är bara det att det inte finns någon It’s time for Selma to start second grade. Will it be better där som jagEllen tycker riktigtKarlsson mycket & om. Eva Och Lindström in the new class? She doesn’t know anybody. The bird has tycker riktigt mycket om mig. Jag ingen som stopped pecking and she misses her friend String heaps. One vill liksom inte berätta mina hemligheter för dem. day Selma notices Fabian, a boy in her class. He knows all about gemstones and he owns both a dog and a budgie! And Dem berättar jag hellre för mamma eller pappa. – Man kan ha bästisar som är äldreIt’s än summersju eller åtta and år, sägerSelma finally gets to be in the country with he dares, like String, to be himself. jag till fågeln. En del är hellre bästisgrandma med vuxna, and försöker grandpa. jag. There she doesn’t need to bother En kort stund slutar fågeln att pickaabout och notblir alldeleshaving tyst. a best friend in town. But the bird inside is So what happens now? Does Selma need to choose? Or can – Äh, piper den sen, vuxna räknaspecking inte. her and reminding her constantly. she have two best friends…? Och så pickar den vidare. IngenHowever, märker den, Selma utom gets jag. to know a new friend called String, who Så är det med fågeln i mitt hjärta,is aden bit är eccentric min hemlighet. and does whatever she wants. Selma doesn’t En hemlighet som jag inte har berättatreally omknow för hownågon to i helabehave, not having had a friend before. Title: En fisk som heter Fabian världen. Jag vet inte varför, det harShe bara muddles blivit så. along, coping with the insecurity of this new Published by Hippo, 2014 – Kom, säger morfar och tar migexperience. i handen. Nu And går visuddenly hem the bird doesn’t peck as much 150 x 200 mm, 152 pp och dricker saft. anymore… – Det gör vi, säger jag och så går vi. Mormor först, sen jag och sistA subtlemorfar. chapterPickfågeln book sitter withi both depth and humor, Best Friends and Secrets mig så den behöver inte springaillustrated alls. Jag vet by att award det inte winning går Eva Lindström. This is the first att springa ifrån fågeln, den följerbook med. in Den the gör series som den about vill, Selma and it was awarded the Selma and String are back! In this final title of the series, fågeln inuti. August Prize in 2013. Selma’s bird suddenly decides to move out together with Jag trivs bra med mormor och morfar så jag känner mig Fabian’s budgie. Selma and Fabian have to arrange for a warm inte ledsen över att mamma och pappa har åkt. Vi tar det place for the birds to live. That is going to be their secret.

8 But when Selma sleeps over at her friend String’s place she Title: Snöret, fågeln och jag accidentally betrays the secret. It’s not always easy having best Published by Hippo, 2013 Och så pekar hon på fågeln som tittar uppåt ochfriends neråt and secrets… 150 x 200 mm, 120 pp 2013-04-03 13:21 och överallt, utom på Snörets arga ögon. Snöret stoppar upp ansiktet så nära fågeln att den inte kan låta bli att titta på henne. Hon håller upp fingret framför ögonen på den som Snöret Original 20 mars.indd 8 Ellen Karlsson has always found herself among om hon ska säga ”ajabaja”, men istället säger hon: – Picka inte på min bästis! children’s books. First as a book-devouring kid and Title: Bästisar och hemligheter Jag blir helt tyst. Fågeln också. Vi bara stirrar på Snöret. then working in a bookstore. In 2012 she founded Published by Hippo, 2015 – Okej, säger fågeln till slut. the picture book publisher Urax and now works full 150 x 200 mm, 128 pp time with it, along with her writing. She debuted in 2013 with String, the Bird and Me for which she was awarded the August Prize, together with Eva Lind- ström. Today, with four books on her list, Ellen Karls- son is considered one of Sweden’s finest children’s book writers.

Eva Lindström has created many acclaimed picture books for which she has been nominated for the August Prize eleven times. The eighth time, in 2013, she won together with Ellen Karlsson. Eva Lindström is an inspiration and a role model for many young picture book creators. She has been awarded the Elsa Beskow Plaque, the Heffaklumpen prize, the picture book prize Snöbollen, and been nominated for the ALMA prize and the international Hans Chris- tian Andersen Award.

34 KOJA AGENCY · RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 · KOJA AGENCY 35 Snöret Original 20 mars.indd 19 2013-04-03 13:21

Snöret Original 20 mars.indd 116 2013-04-03Snöret Original 13:22 20 mars.indd 13 2013-04-03 13:21 Emre’s Manual in the Art of Making Friends Charlie the Wrestler and Hamster Dad (...and enemies) Anders Sparring Siri Spont & Jonna Björnstjerna

Emre is a guy who doesn’t really dare to speak up and When Charlie’s wrestling teacher Gudrun breaks an arm, EMRES take up any space, and who wishes he was braver. And it Charlie decides to give up wrestling. The only question is: can get a bit lonely sometimes. The fact that his younger what should she do instead? Charlie decides on getting a brother Izzet is friends with the whole world doesn’t really hamster. Dad Jean’s answer is of course no, but Charlie gets HANDBOKK help either. Emre tries to give himself some advice and one anyway. In secret. Emre önskar att det fanns en handbok i hur man skaffar sig writes it all down in his very own manual on the art of vänner. Speciellt som han är en sån som aldrig märks. making friends. In the third book about Charlie the Wrestler, Josef, the boy När stökiga Ömer börjar i klassen får Emre en massa tips One day a new guy starts in Emre’s class. Ömer is his with sparkly eyes and soft hair, has started in the same class på hur han ska göra och inte 1 name, he takes up room and is fearless. Sometimes a little as Charlie. But he doesn’t seem to be wanting to spend time göra för att få en kompis. Som att det kan vara bra att försvara Spont & Björnstjerna & Spont too much room, so that it gets him in trouble. But what with her. He’d rather be with Amir – and sometimes he’s also Ömer när han räddar en fågel uppe på skolans tak. Och att det would happen if Emre and Ömer became friends...? really mean! Ruth is all busy with Martin, and Jean thinks inte behöver vara en dålig grej att stjäla nåns katt. only about mom. So when Charlie gets into trouble she has Everyday life in middle grade school with much to identify to handle it herself. First, everything is fi ne. Then it gets with. With a lot of humor, a playful layout and many worse. In the end, it’s really bad. But it’s a happy ending all illustrations, this book will tickle even the most reluctant the same. readers! The books about Charlie the Wrestler are charming and HIPPO BOKFÖRLAG HIPPO BOKFÖRLAG Title: Karla Brottare och hamsterpappan funny, with an original tone and a strong character whom the Published by Natur & Kultur, August 2016 reader immediately falls for. Title: Emres handbok i att skaffa sig vänner... 150 x 210 mm, 200 pp och ovänner Anders Sparring lives with his family in Årsta, outside Stock- Published by Hippo, January 2016 holm. When he doesn’t write children’s books, Anders works 170 x 210 mm, 128 pp as a scriptwriter for TV and is also a stand-up comedian.

Jonna Björnstjerna is an illustrator and author from Sweden, currently living in London, where she attended Central Saint Martins College of Art. Jonna was awarded the prize “Bokjuryn” in the category 0-6 years twice.

SECOND BOOK IN THE SERIES

Emre’s Manual in the Art of Becoming Famous (...and infamous)

Emre is tired of feeling invisible. Not even Arian at the rec center recognizes him, despite going there together for the past three years. His best friend Ömer suggests that it’s time to do something about the situation. Emre simply has to become famous! And the best way to do that overnight is on YouTube... This is the second book in the humorous series about Emre, to be published in May 2016. Charlie the Wrestler Charlie the Wrestler and Boris Olsson

36 KOJA AGENCY · RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 · KOJA AGENCY 37 ”Republished Katitzi – painful and relevant children’s literature” Uppsala Nya Tidning Katitzi and Junk Benny

”Katitzi shows everyone the power of children’s books” & Katitzi in School Östgöta Correspondenten Katarina Taikon

”It is an engaging and exciting read, I laugh – and I cry […] Katarina Taikon captures sensory impressions just as intensively as you experienced them when you were young Author and human rights activist Katarina Taikon wrote – how it smelled, tasted and felt right down under your skin. It makes the story of Katitzi 13 books about the young Romani girl Katitzi and her something more than just a testimony of being Romani during the 1940s. There’s also family, between 1969 and 1980. The stories depict much joy and love in the everyday questions of injustice, ignorance and exclusion through realism. And Katarina Taikon the eyes of a child. The books about Katitzi have been always takes the side of the vulnerable, loved by generations of readers and are now published whether they speak Romani or not.” in new editions, carefully revised by writer and journalist Svenska Dagbladet Lawen Mohtadi in collaboration with Katarina Taikon’s daughter Angelica Ström. Each new edition consists of “Katitzi is just as captivating today […] two of the original books, and have been given new It’s good that they’re now being republished, illustrations by Joanna Hellgren. The series of new they are needed. Maybe now more than ever?” editions will be complete in 2017. Västerviks-tidningen Katarina Maria Taikon-Langhammer (1932–1995) was a Swedish author with Romani roots, who for many years ”First and foremost, the story about Katitzi is an fought for the rights of Romani in Sweden. Just like many unparalleled book to read out loud for a child, for all other Romani of her generation, she didn’t attend school those who want to talk about racism and what it really but had to learn to read and write as an adult. She was means to be human.” awarded ABF’s literary prize in 1964. In 2012, Natur & Vetlandaposten Title: Katitzi och Lump-Nicke & Katitzi i skolan Kultur published Katarina Taikon’s biography, written by Published by Natur & Kultur, September 2016 journalist Lawen Mohtadi. 155 x 210 mm, 300 pp ”Katitzi gives a voice to vulnerable children.” Joanna Hellgren won Natur & Kultur’s picture book TT Spektra competition in 2009. She is a celebrated illustrator and cartoonist. She has published comic books in France, and her Mon frère nocturne (2008) was nominated for the award Best Comic at the cartoon festival in Angulême. Joanna is nominated for the ALMA prize and won the Snöbollen Award for best picture book of 2015. Photo: Björn Langhammer

Katitzi, Rosa and Paul & Katitzi in Katitzi & Katitzi and Swing Katitzi in the Snake Pit & Katitzi Runs Away Stockholm

38 KOJA AGENCY · RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 · KOJA AGENCY 39 The Pirates of the Ice Sea The Ossian series Frida Nilsson Ylva Karlsson & Katarina Strömgård

“Whitehead has captured my sister! We have to go get Ossian’s Unusual Nanny her back!” ”Ossian,” whispered his little brother. “Do you think Petronella But no one moved. They looked away, stared down into is a witch?” their glasses, started mumbling to each other, and soon Ossian thought about his and Samuel’s new nanny. He thought someone said: “Siri, your sister is gone. That’s what hap- about how she made rain into sunshine, and the paintings pens to those Whitehead captures. They… come alive. He also thought about the kaleidoscope and about no longer exist.” the bicycle basket that seemed to hold too much. “No” he said. “Not a witch exactly. But…” The feared pirate Whitehead abducts children and makes them work in a mine all day, digging and chopping for It’s actually hard to explain. But if you read this book you will diamonds. No one even dares to search for the children. understand exactly. But the day he captures Siri’s little sister Miki, he makes himself an enemy he never could have imagined. Siri goes A magical collaboration between August Prize winners Ylva looking for Whitehead’s island. Because she knows how Karlsson and Katarina Strömgård. The first book in a series of scared Miki has to be, in the hands of the pirate, in the three. Perfect for reading out loud. mine’s dark ducts, all alone.

Title: Ishavspirater Frida Nilsson made her debut in 2004. Frida’s authorship Published by Natur & Kultur, September 2015 Samuel’s Strange Calendar 170 x 210 mm, 280 pp is characterized by tremendous humor and great Rights sold: Germany, Serbia, the Czech sincerity. She writes about the big questions in life – When Samuel turned around Ossian had sat up straight on the Republic, France, Denmark friendship, death and love – and has been compared to rocking chair. He looked horrified. The rocking chair rocked. fellow writers such as Roald Dahl and Barbro Lindgren. On its own! Samuel remembered what Petronella had said Awards Frida is internationally successful, and her books have when Ossian was given the rocking chair. “Try opening the August Prize nominee 2015 been nominated for the prestigious Deutscher Jugend window before you sit on it.” Winner of Expressen’s Heffaklumpen Literaturpreis in Germany, and several literary awards Award 2016 in France. She has been an August Prize nominee The rocking chair rocked across the floor towards Samuel. The three times, won The Astrid Lindgren Prize in 2014 and Raspberry bird fluttered around and Samuel hopped after it. Heffaklumpen 2016. Then the rocking chair sped up and lifted. Yes, it actually lifted from the floor. It flew. Up in the air and through the opened ”Frida Nilsson’s epic adventure tale is a modern classic ”Four hundred-page sheer reading joy.” window. that captivates the reader. It is impossible to put down Maria Nyström, UNT the book.” The rocking chair and the strange calendar that Samuel and ”Frida Nilsson has written a tumultuous tale with incre- SvD Ossian had been given by their nanny Petronella leads them dibly beautiful illustrations by Alexander Jansson.” ”The author is our new Astrid Lindgren. Little book- straight into the world of magic. Nerikes Allehanda worms will throw themselves at this frost sparkling tale.” ”Ishavspirater is a resounding adventure. The descrip- tion of Siri’s industriousness, the frightful pirate captain, Michael’s Wondrous Journey M Magasin and the barren environment provide both chills and ”Frida Nilsson has created an epic story of sisterhood, provokes tears, even in adult readers. It is nothing more Mom has finally time to go with Samuel and Ossian to swim courage and the importance of staying humane in a than a grand story.” lessons. But when she discovers that the swim teacher is a real cruel adult world.” mermaid she gets a shock and turns into an odd creature – a Kristianstadbladet hedgehog troll with blue fur. To save her, a journey to the world Jens Liljestrand, Expressen ”With her fantastic imagination and tone of storytel- of magic begins. The whole family sails away on the Sea of ”I shudder with pleasure to hold such a jewel of a story ling, she [Frida Nilsson] lets us sit on pins and needles Floating Islands where help hopefully will be found… in my hand./.../ It is a brilliant narrative.” until the very last page. It’s the magic of reading at its greatest.” Göteborgs Posten Published by Hippo, 2012-2015 Akademibokhandeln Halmstad 135 x 210 mm, 192 pp

KOJA AGENCY · RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 · KOJA AGENCY 41 Reuben – the King of Cheer Ola Selmén

Reuben and Viggo must save their favorite team from Viggo’s stepdad’s crazy plans! And the only way is to revive the cheering section and fi ll up the stands. They gather a motley crew: Juan with his potent vocal cords, Jackpot Claes, Reuben’s cheeky younger sister Berta and a bunch of other outsiders. Of course everyth- ing goes wrong ...

Ola Selmén is the presenter of a popular quiz-show for kids on Swedish national TV. Reuben – the king of cheer is his debut as an author and illustrator.

Title: Ruben, hejarklackskungen Vaktmästaren som stod och drog ut rostiga spik Published by Pintxo, May 2016 150 x 210 mm, 150 pp från träläktaren tittade upp på oss och verka- de fundera på om han skulle ringa skolkuratorn eller till psyk.

Morsan brukar säga att jag och Vigg är som en organism. Vi har hängt med varandra hela livet så det är väl inte konstigt att vi blivit som ett dynamiskt anfallsradarpar. Dock blir KOJA AGENCY · RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 jag tossig närRIGHTS hon LISTsäger SPRING att vi2016 ser · utKOJA som AGENCY två 43 ”små söta hobbitar” när vi kutar till skolan.

Ingen ska säga att vi ser ut som SÖTA hobbitar!

20 Noel and the Magical Wish List Feminism in progress Janina Kastevik Sassa Buregren & Elin Lindell

One day, when Noel is sitting on the bus, an old man, out ”It seems like there is an unwritten rule that says that girls of breath and with long, grey, dirty hair, squeezes next Sassa Buregren have to be good, kind and sweet – while the boys are Elin Lindell to him. At the following stop the man leaves in a hurry allowed to be rowdy and mainly be good at sports. Most and forgets a little piece of paper on the seat… Noel � teachers seem to think that anyway. I don’t like it, because is astonished when he sees what’s written on it: Noel’s one person is different from the other. You shouldn’t judge wish list. He starts wishing that things were better; he people based on their gender before you get to know wishes to meet a new friend, get a new teacher, that mom them.” Ella, 12 years would come home and that dad would stop pretending everything’s just fi ne between mom and him. The wish for FEMI- All over the world, people talk about feminism and a new friend come true when Silke moves in in the same women’s rights. In some parts, voices are heard about building. But with every wish that comes true an unpleasant NISM women’s right to drive, and in other parts it is the question consequence follows … PÅGÅR of equal pay for equal work that engages. A new well-written children’s novel with a fi ne undertone - Gender equality has progressed differently throughout the by the author of Slottet av is (The Castle of Ice) world. For instance, Sweden is regarded to be the most 4 equal country in the world, but has never had a female Cover by ALMA-nominee Joanna Hellgren. Prime Minister. So what is feminism really and where do Title: Noel och den magiska önskelistan the ideas of feminism come from? And why isn’t equality Title: Feminism in progress Published by Hippo, May 2016 Published by Natur & Kultur, January 2016 something that goes without saying – why is it something 140 x 190 mm, 144 pp “Noel and the Magical Wish List is heartfelt and warm, in a very 170 x 210 mm, 80 pp to fi ght about? sincere and down to earth way. Diffi cult words are explained and the excellent portrayal makes it easy to absorb. Mio, My Son has got a This book combines facts and history with interviews with worthy successor.” young people on feminism. BTJ

UGH! MEN HUNT. Sassa Buregren is an artist WOMEN CLEAN Janina Kastevik debuted in 2013 with the critically CAVE. UGH! and an author, and she has acclaimed Slottet av is (The Ice Castle). She lives just outside been awarded the Carl von Stockholm with her family and works as a lawyer for the Linné plaque for best non- Swedish government offi ces. fi ction title in 2002.

Elin Lindell made her debut in 2006 with The Big Book of Sin, which was received very well MALE CHAUVINIST by critics and readers alike. PIG! Elin is a journalist, and does freelance work as both an Photo: Sussi Ardenfors illustrator and a writer.

44 KOJA AGENCY · RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 · KOJA AGENCY 45 Tsatsiki If Only I Dared Moni Nilsson Siri Spont & Jonna Björnstjerna

If Only I Dared Tsatsiki-Tsatsiki Johansson won the There are four things that Tilda wants to do before the summer break. hearts of readers all over the world Even though she doesn’t really dare to do them. She wants to go to when the first book, Tsatsiki and Mom, the ghost barn which is the scariest place in the whole village. Stand was published in 1995. To date, the up against Marcus when he is mean to her at school. Ask Thea why books have been translated into 17 she is always with Elin, Clara and Marcus nowadays. And to do the languages and they continue to gain spirit in the glass even though she knows that it has driven people new generations of fans. The books have mad or gotten them killed for doing so. If only she dared… won numerous awards, and the first film about Tsatsiki won Best Film in 1999 in A scary, funny, and daring book with a lot of recognizable factors! Sweden. Moni Nilsson’s portrayal of the Each chapter begins with humorous comic illustrations made by Jonna everyday life of young Tsatsiki and his Björnstjerna. somewhat unconventional mother, is characterized by a unique familiar and Longing So Much captivating style, making the books true Love is the theme of this book! Tilda has a secret and a not so secret classics of our time. Title: Tsatsiki och Hammarn Title: Tsatsiki och Olivkriget wish list. This is how her secret list looks like: Published by Natur & Kultur, Published by Natur & Kultur, January 1. Samin and I will become a couple November 2015, 200 pp 2016, 200 pp Moni Nilsson is one of Sweden’s 2. Marcus will move most acclaimed authors of children’s 3. Alice will move books and young adult fiction. She has 4. Fish balls at school will be banned received numerous prestigious literary 5. Someone will discover a vaccine against norovirus for everybody awards such as the Astrid Lindgren 6. Someone will discover me and I will become a famous actress. Prize in 2010 for meritorious authorship ”An engaging story with many ingredients, such as adven- Or author. ture, humor, diversity, love and inner and outer warmth.” within the realm of Swedish literature for children and youth. BTJ Promise That I Can The fourth book about Tilda. It’s soon time for the school trip and ”Moni always has the perfect tone. She dares to include Tilda really doesn’t want to go. And she is supposed to sell salami – love, the first kiss, things that tingle inside. A really nice ANIMAL MEAT! – she who loves animals and is vegetarian… book about Tsatsiki.” But if she gets that puppy, the world’s cutest puppy, all will be good SVT again. That is until the cute puppy starts peeing everywhere and chews on her new party shoes.

Just as giggling, daring and to the point as always – the fourth book in the series that has become a middle-grader’s favorite.

Never Be a Coward The school trip is approaching and at this point Tilda just can’t drop off. Outdoors activities, tents and camp fires for several days. Not even mobiles work over there. Can it get worse?

Fifth and last part of the series about Tilda and Thea.

Tsatsiki and Mom Tsatsiki and Dad Just Tsatsiki Tsatsiki and Love Tsatsiki and Retzina

Published by Hippo, 2012-2015 135 x 210 mm, 192 pp 46 KOJA AGENCY · RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 · KOJA AGENCY 47 The Space Postman Guillaume Perreault

Bob likes his routine and truly loves his job: to him, mail service is serious business! On board of his spaceship, he delivers letters and parcels to a whole lot of people, all around the galaxy – well, the part of the galaxy he knows, of course. But something is wrong this morning at the post offi ce.

Title: Le facteur de l’espace Published by La Pastèque, March 2016 190 x 254 mm, 146 pp

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KOJA AGENCY · RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 · KOJA AGENCY 49 Your Turn, Adrian Helena Öberg & Kristin Lidström

Almost every day 10-year old Adrian goes to school with an anxiety knot in his stomach. There he feels alone and different. In the classroom, when the teacher asks Adrian to read aloud in front of the other kids, he feels as if the time stops. To cope, Adrian dreams himself far away. In his imagination, he performs at the circus and can handle incredible acrobatic stunts. The public applauds!

But it is only when Adrian meets the gigantic wolfhound Heidi that everything begins to change for real. She just appears in front of Adrian one day, and from then on follows him like a shadow on the way home after yet another difficult day at school.

Your turn, Adrian is a strong story about vulnerability, elusive text lines and expectations that are difficult to meet. But it is also the depiction of a sincere friendship and imagination’s power to “A wonderful book! An explosion of color and form, illustration and text. It could have won the August Prize and I transform. would have been so happy!” Gomorron, SVT

Title: Din tur, Adrian August Prize nominee 2015 ”A brave, beautiful and experimental graphic novel that is almost a picture book, about dyslexia, alienation and the Published by Mirando bok, 2015 Special mention Bologna Ragazzi Award 2016 for “Disability” love for a dog. Exciting alternation between life in black and white and in colour.” Ulla Rhedin, Dagens Nyheter 165 x 225 mm, 64 pp

50 KOJA AGENCY · RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 · KOJA AGENCY 51 With Dad in My Pocket The Sandwich Thief Bengt-Erik Engholm & Jonna Björnstjerna André Marois & Patrick Doyon

In my dreams, we think alike about everything, dad and me. Marin simply loves the sandwiches his parents make for him. About volley shots and intermediate times, referees, skiing condi- Each day it’s a different one and each day better than tions and bait fishing. In my dreams, we sit in the car fishing for yesterday’s. All well. But today’s sandwich has been stolen. perch and talk about everything. Then I think he never can die. The boy decides to investigate the case, in order to unmask But in reality dad got sick. the vile kid-starver. Is it the janitor, or Fat Robin? Jealous Mathias, or the A book for all ages, about life, death and love. Principal? The week goes by, the suspects are many and sandwiches keep on disappearing. Until one day… Bengt-Erik Engholm lives just outside Stockholm. His work in- cludes a very popular non-fiction series published by Natur & Kultur and a number of picture books. He also translates animated film, teaches creative writing, and works as a personal assistant.

Title: Med pappa i fickan Title: Le voleur de sandwichs Published by Berghs, 2015 Published by La Pastèque, 2014 155 x 185 mm, 40 pp 170 X 220 mm, 168 mm

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52 KOJA AGENCY · RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 · KOJA AGENCY The Living Mats Wahl

The Living is the fourth book in the series BLOOD RAIN, a powerful and dark story of the fi ght for survival in a not entirely unrealistic future. The ongoing environmental disaster gives rise to climate changes that cause great problems. Blood rain, hurricanes and tornadoes are part of the weather landscape. A large part of Sweden is uninhabitable.

The government rules with an iron hand from the power capital Grovel Lake. Police and military do what they can to “encour- age” people to move to the cities, where it’s easier to control them. However, a resistance movement is secretly forming in the country, where families live isolated on farms, as they have done for a long time, managing without the help of police or other authority. Justice takes place outside the realms of offi cial law.

In this book, Elin fi nds out that there are robots created to look just like her. In the present political climate after the civil war, Title: De levande Published by Natur & Kultur, August 2016 no one is to be trusted, not even those close to you – every 135 x 210 mm, 300 pp conversation listened in on and every step watched. Rights sold to Germany and Denmark Mats Wahl is one of Sweden’s leading writers for young people. He was born in Malmö in 1945 and is currently living in Stockholm. Since his debut in 1978, he has written more than 50 books, plays and fi lm scripts. He has received nume- rous awards for his work. For his YA novel Vinterviken he was awarded the August Prize and prestigious Deutscher Jugendli- teraturpreis. Besides his work as an author, he is also a lecturer and teacher.

”The atmosphere, family feuds and language in Mats Wahl’s frightening and tremendously skillfully composed book, the fi rst part of the series Bloodrain, is really like an Icelandic saga […] This could be Mats Wahl’s strongest writing yet”

Västerbottens-kuriren

The Riders The Warriors The Lawmakers

KOJA AGENCY · RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 · KOJA AGENCY 55 All that is Left The Gods Sandra Beijer Elin Cullhed

Right in the middle of a burning July, Matilda’s boyfriend We are Bita, Lilly and Jane. This book isn’t about someone’s dumps her. She is left alone in an empty apartment, feeling mom dying. It’s not about two teens who have cancer. It’s lost. Who is she without him? To cope she has to fill the not about another guy falling in love. This book is about us. void with something, and her best friend Miron takes her under his wings. He promises to numb her pain with Bita, Lilly and Jane are sixteen years old and live in the small new adventures. Together, they will ride out the grief and town of Tierp. A suburb to outer space where the streets explode in the night. But how far will they take it, and what bleed of sleet and nobody fucks up the patriarchy. They’ve are Miron’s actual motives? And how do you know when you outsmarted the anti-pussy system, they are gods now, start to feel better – or actually feel nothing at all any longer? powerful and acting out – but they’re also lost. Lilly is in a Sandra Beijer is masterful at painting a vivid picture with her relationship with the school’s Prince Charming. When they language, and portraying the aimlessness in the borderland become aware of that he in fact beats her, Bita and Jane between one’s teens and adulthood. She writes the popular decide to do something about it. Soon enough they realize blog sandrabeijer.se and made her author debut in 2014 that when one problem is out of the way, a thousand remain. with the YA novel Det handlar om dig. It received great They need to take revenge. On dull Tierp, the adult world, reviews in the press. and every douchey guy. And they’re going to do it together.

Elin Cullhed was born in 1983 and lives in Uppsala. She Title: Allt som blir kvar Title: Gudarna works as a journalist of arts and culture and as a college Published by Natur & Kultur, 2016 Published by Natur & Kultur, 2016 130 x 185 mm, 170 pp 135 x 190 mm, 200 pp teacher. Previously she has worked within the health profes- Rights sold to Denmark sion, at a bookstore and as a magazine editor.

The Gods received Föreningen arbetskrivares literary prize in 2015, with the motivation: “The text is original, has a fresh perspective and intrigue. There is an appealing play with language, the characters stand out, and the story is also humorous. It has an evident perspective from below, which is at the center of the story – and says something important about Sweden today. Like all good literary writing there is a subtext, and instead of whining it is full of fighting spirit” Photo: Erik Ardelius Photo: Rikkard Häggbom Photo: Rikkard

KOJA AGENCY · RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 · KOJA AGENCY 57 TIFO – the supporters In My Name – a book about transgender Josefine Lindén Moa-Lina Croall

Tanya, Isak, Fredrik and Oscar all come from different back- “My daily life is very limited. Just going shopping for grounds, but have one thing in common: the passion for deodorant for example. The deodorant for men in its their team. They sing among bengals on the stands and dark bottles, and the girl deodorant that smells of flowers. waver between hubris and anxiety on the bus towards the Everything is so gender-labeled. Separate departments away game. for men and women, separate toilets. It’s like a punch in the gut every time I have to make a choice.” After a heated derby, Isak is caught in a fight started outside Juno, 15 years the arena, together with his older brother, a member of the team’s firm. Isak gets hit by a security guard, and even “School triggers a lot of anxiety for me. Most people are though he only gets a few stitches, the images of the so normative there. They label incorrectly, say the wrong assault spreads like a wildfire on social media. names. They have very little knowledge about trans issues.” The supporters around the country demand justice. Eli, 14 years

In the midst of this, the crush between Isak and Tanya In My Name – a book about transgender is based on becomes more serious, but can their friendship survive a kiss interviews with transgendered – from teenagers in high when one of them regrets it after? school to role models in the adult world. The book also includes facts about trans and advice to you who is transgen-

Title: TIFO Title: I mitt namn – En bok om trans dered. It’s a book for young adults who are thinking about Published Pintxo, March 2016 Published by Natur & Kultur, June 2016 their own gender, but also for those who is around a trans Soft cover, 180 pp 135 x 190 mm, 128 pp person, for example school personnel, friends and family.

Josefine Lindén made her debut in 2014 with a suspense Moa-Lina Croall has written several books for children and novel, and followed 2015 with a biography about football young adults, and teaches creative writing at Biskops Arnö. player Daniel Stjernström, a children’s book about Stella & Kii and a non-fiction title about musician Johan who was born blind but then inexplicably got his sight back. In 2016, this ambitious author releases a biography about football player Mats Rubarth, a thriller and the YA novel TIFO. Photo: Bror Bror Photo: Bror

58 KOJA AGENCY · RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 RIGHTS LIST SPRING 2016 · KOJA AGENCY 59 The Lure of Water “It’s a fast, raw and dirty realism that grips hold of you just Madeleine Bäck after a few pages. Slowly, the supernatural envelops the story and the horror comes creeping. The grip tightens and I turn the pages faster and faster. All I can say is finally, a As his hand sinks into the warmth of the stone he hears it. Words thunder in his head, dark, echoing and strong. really good YA horror story – I’ve been wanting this!” They drown out all other sounds. Olivia Borg, Akademibokhandeln “There where water lures them They will wander.” “The suspense is constant and I had a hard time putting Viktor can’t breathe. The words gather around his heart. the book down. I just wanted more and more!” They hurl themselves into its gaping depths and spread Tova Larsson, 17 years old, blog Bokugglan through his muscles. They change the very rhythm of him. Again and again that phrase roars through Viktor’s body. ”It’s physical – violent, erotic, raw and lyrical. The Lure of “There where water lures them the Water is the first part in a trilogy, and it ends with not They will wander.” one cliffhanger, but several. It’s an outstanding debut!” He has no choice. He must chant the words. Scream BTJ them. Over and over. And somewhere, even though he can’t describe it, he knows that what’s happening at this moment is for all time. The words are in him and he is theirs. Title: Vattnet drar UPCOMING BOOKS IN THE SERIES Published by Natur & Kultur, February 2016 It is Midsummer’s Eve when Viktor Husberg and his 135 x 190 mm, 421 pp friends break into a small church in Northern Sweden. Their plan is to steal the valuable, 13th century wooden Virgin Mary sculpture inside. But Viktor finds something else: a stone, bricked into the church’s altar. It is strangely warm, shimmers like oil and bears the faint mark of a handprint on its surface. Viktor must have the stone. The desire for it tears through his entire body.

Before long Viktor is driven out into the forest. When desire meets water and earth, an ancient demonic power is brought to life: the well-hidden secret of the Bergsmen. The Wanderers have returned to the county Gästrikland. Now the entire community is in danger.

The lives of petty crook Viktor Husberg, student Beata Kovac, animal welfare inspector Krister Svedin and lone The Awakening of the Earth The Sacrifice of the Mountain wolf Gunhild become intertwined this hot summer. It’s up January 2017 September 2017 to them to suppress the evil that has been released. But there is little time. Madeleine Bäck was born in 1976. She grew up in the village of Storvik, in the very heart of the Wanderers’ lands. Madeleine is a biologist and journalist. She is currently the CEO of the A4 The Lure of Water is the first book in the trilogy about a

Photo:Camilla Lindqvist newspaper agency in Stockholm. She lives in Solna with her husband and two children. The Lure of country district torn and tormented by an ancient alliance Water is her debut. between man and nature.

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