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      • Night Express
        Children's & YA
        October 2020

        Night Express

        All aboard a magical express train heading towards Christmas!

        by Karin Erlandsson & Peter Bergting

        Dania’s granny lives in an old station building next to a disused railway. Every year Dania, her big sister Nanda and their parents move to their grandmother’s for December in the run-up for Christmas. Granny has become older and more forgetful during the past years, and sometimes she speaks nonsense.   One evening Granny seems exceptionally absentminded before disappearing from her room. The same night Dania hears something and sneaks out to see it with her own eyes: an express train is pulling up at the station.   Dania manages to stop the night train and the adventure begins. She boards the train that returns every night. On the train she meets Konrad, and it soon transpires that everyone on the night train has lost someone they love. With the help of a key from Granny and a mysterious music box, Dania and Konrad are able to bend time itself.   Will the children find their lost loved ones? And who has actually lost whom?   An enchanting and wildly riveting story brimming with the magic of Christmas has 24 chapters and is also splendid for reading out loud.

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      • Radio Popov
        Children's & YA
        August 2020

        Radio Popov

        What if you were all alone in the world – but one night you discovered that the Sharp Ears always hear you when you sigh?

        by Anja Portin

        Nine-year-old Alfred lives virtually alone. His mother has disappeared long ago, and his father, who stays away on business trips, doesn’t always seem to remember that Alfred exists. One night, Alfred sets off in the company of the mysterious Sneak, who puts things through letterboxes–not just newspapers, but apples, woollen socks and sandwiches.   Thus begins an unforgettable adventure that changes everything, and not just for Albert. Sneak turns out the eccentric Amanda Lehtimaja, a paperwoman who is one of the Sharp Ears. At Amanda’s home Alfred finds an old radio transmitter designed by a Russian physicist, A.S. Popov. He starts making a secret, nightly radio broadcast that all the other forgotten children in the city listen to.   But how can Amanda and Alfred help the children, and what will Alfred’s father do when he notices that his son is gone? And who exactly are the Sharp Ears?   “Some stories start with a trivial little whimsical idea, like someone deciding to find out if they would sleep better on the hallway floor than in their own bed. Like I decided to do one night.”   Radio Popov is an exciting and humorous, warm-hearted story that brings to mind the most beloved classics of children’s literature, like the fairy tale novels of Astrid Lindgren.

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      • Ruby's Secret
        Children's & YA
        August 2020

        Ruby's Secret

        What if you could move objects by willpower?

        by Vuokko Hurme

        Ruby’s family has a secret: they have wonderful powers of colour. The Hues are able to control the colours of their own possessions, and they can handle them and move them about by willpower. Ruby’s colour is red and her big sister Skye’s is blue, while their little brother Forrest is still looking for his colour and practising hard.   When the Hues, hiding their secret skills, move into the Gertrude Rinne condominium, something changes: Ruby no longer wants to be an eternal outsider. She wants to play in the yard with the other children. So she has to make an impression on her new friends–at all costs.   On top of all this, Ruby’s head is turned by a charming but mischievous girl named Liia. And what is the strange greyness that threatens not just the Hues but everyone else as well?   Ruby’s Secret is the first book of four about the Hues family. Reetta Niemensivu’s expressive line drawing illustrations complete the text with red finishing touches.

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      • Raspberry Hill
        Children's & YA
        February 2019

        Raspberry Hill

        Ghosts and spooks for middle grade readers by Finland’s rising crime queen.

        by Eva Frantz

        Raspberry Hill is a sanatorium in the middle of the healing countryside, where city dwellers with lung diseases end up. Many of the child patients treated there are from poor families–like Stina. She’s lived on Seaman Street in southern Helsinki in a small room with her five siblings and the mother since the father died in the war, and now she is very sick.   The sanatorium feels like a castle to Stina. It is vast and full of long corridors and echoes. It is also a very lonely place, until one day Stina meets Ruben. The boy starts turning up when they should be sleeping, taking her on nightly expeditions to forbidden parts of the building– like the eastern wing, which has recently burned down.   Little by little Stina starts to realize that everything is not quite right in the sanatorium. Why isn’t her mother writing back to her? Why do the nurses seem so afraid? What really happened in the fire? And what is Ruben trying to warn her about?   Raspberry Hill is crime author Eva Frantz’s first children’s book–a suspenseful horror story for middle grade readers. It starts a series of stand-alone horror novels set in early 20th century that take their young readers on a journey back in time.

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      • The Pearl Fisher
        Children's & YA
        October 2017

        The Pearl Fisher

        A grand take of friendship, longing – and a kingdom of stories by an award-winning author.

        by Karin Erlandsson

        There is a kingdom where the bottom of the ocean is covered with colourful pearls. There is one pearl that everyone wants–the eye gemstone. The story says that whoever finds it will never need to long for anything anymore, and generation after generation people have left their families to search for it, never returning.   Two girls set out for the hunt: Miranda who believes herself to be the most skilled pearl fisher of all, and small Syrsa who has a rare ability: she can hear the pearls singing, whispering, murmuring… Their page-turning adventure grows in the series of four books to epic proportions: to a grand tale of friendship and what truly matters in life.   The exciting, multi-layered story, located in skilfully constructed world with forests, mountains, fields and seas has been praised by readers and critics.

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      • The Bird Master
        Children's & YA
        October 2018

        The Bird Master

        A grand take of friendship, longing – and a kingdom of stories by an award-winning author.

        by Karin Erlandsson

        There is a kingdom where the bottom of the ocean is covered with colourful pearls. There is one pearl that everyone wants–the eye gemstone. The story says that whoever finds it will never need to long for anything anymore, and generation after generation people have left their families to search for it, never returning.   Two girls set out for the hunt: Miranda who believes herself to be the most skilled pearl fisher of all, and small Syrsa who has a rare ability: she can hear the pearls singing, whispering, murmuring… Their page-turning adventure grows in the series of four books to epic proportions: to a grand tale of friendship and what truly matters in life.   The exciting, multi-layered story, located in skilfully constructed world with forests, mountains, fields and seas has been praised by readers and critics.

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      • Upside Down
        Children's & YA
        October 2017

        Upside Down

        A clever and mind-boggling trilogy set in three different worlds – told by the authentic, wise voice of an eight-year-old girl.

        by Vuokko Hurme

        Lenna has lived all of her eight years in a city called Kardum. Kardum used to be a normal city just like any other, but long before Lenna was born, the world turned upside down.   The earth is now where the sky used to be. And there is a dizzying drop into nothingness where the ground used to be.   The incident that everyone refers to as “The Rotation” has changed everything, but people have learned to get along in their upside down world. They move from house to house with the help of ropes and special gear. They enjoy simple lives without running water or electricity.   In fact, Lenna and her best friend Jaan have just the right amount of fun and excitement–until the supply of fresh water begins to run out.   Beneath the sky there is Mabal, a world built from all the things that have fallen from Kardum. There you don’t have to be afraid of falling into the sky anymore, but instead you have to worry about what falls from the sky: trash, sand, and even houses and boulders.   And there’s another danger. Mabal rests on a thin surface. Anyone who digs too deep below the surface will fall –no one knows where. That is no one, until Lenna and Jaan one day end up there: in the old Kardum that still lives in the age before the Rotation. When they realize that there is only a week to the Rotation, they have a choice to make: should they try to save the old world?

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      • Animal Scalebook
        Children's & YA
        October 2016

        Animal Scalebook

        The vividly colourful scalebooks put things – and us humans! – in proportion by scaling different animals to everyday objects and distances.

        by Carlos da Cruz

        Carlos da Cruz’s Scalebooks are inspiring children’s science books about the amazing size of animals. Some creatures make human beings feel like giants, others like Tom Thumb.   In Animal Scalebook we encounter the spiky hedgehog, snuffling along the ground, and the giraffe as it reaches for the highest branches of the tree. Along the way we also meet sea blubber, with its hundreds of stinging tentacles, dozens of metres long, and the white rhinoceros, which can run faster than the world’s fastest human!

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      • Dinosaur Scalebook
        Children's & YA
        October 2018

        Dinosaur Scalebook

        The vividly colourful scalebooks put things – and us humans! – in proportion by scaling different animals to everyday objects and distances.

        by Carlos da Cruz & Maija Karala

        Carlos da Cruz’s Scalebooks are inspiring children’s science books about the amazing size of animals. Some creatures make human beings feel like giants, others like Tom Thumb.   In Dinosaur Scalebook you learn how large was a microraptor, one of the smallest dinosaurs, and how small is a human compared to the largest found fossil of a dinosaur. But which dinosaur had feathers similar to a chicken?

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      • Fish Scalebook
        Children's & YA
        October 2019

        Fish Scalebook

        The vividly colourful scalebooks put things – and us humans! – in proportion by scaling different animals to everyday objects and distances.

        by Carlos da Cruz & Maija Karala

        Carlos da Cruz’s Scalebooks are inspiring children’s science books about the amazing size of animals. Some creatures make human beings feel like giants, others like Tom Thumb.   In Fish Scalebook the focus is in the oceans, lakes and rivers of the world. Which kinds of fish live in the water, out of the human sight? Which fish can have inspired the stories about sea monsters? What surprises are there in the bottoms of the oceans?

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      • Close Your Eyes, Iris!
        Children's & YA
        October 2019

        Close Your Eyes, Iris!

        Why do you have to go to sleep, even if you’re not a bit tired? How do you know you’re sleepy? And what’s the sleepy monster?

        by Virpi Kaarina Talvitie et al.

        Iris is cross. She’s in the middle of a game, and her mother, tired out by the baby, is angrily telling her to go to bed. Why are grown-ups allowed to stay up later? Why do you have to go to bed if you’re not tired? And why doesn’t sleep come anyway? Who on earth is the Sandman?   Her dreams take Iris with them into the forest, to a farm, under the water and finally to the mountains. At that point the dream becomes a little frightening when Iris meets a sleepy monster suffering from insomnia! Fortunately, when Iris wakes up in the morning everything is back to normal. Even her mother is more cheerful.   Close your Eyes, Iris! is a book about the fascinating and still largely unknown world of sleep. Many exciting aspects of sleep receive a child-level explanation which will also interest adult readers: how do fish sleep? And what about jellyfish, which don’t have brains or eyes? How can bears sleep all winter? How do sleep and sleeplessness affect the human brain, nervous system and cells? Why is it sometimes really difficult to wake up?

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      • Fantastickle Friend
        Children's & YA
        March 2019

        Fantastickle Friend

        by Alexandra Salmela & Linda Bondestam

        Bean-Bean hates miserable Wednesdays. That is when he has to walk through the park alone, and in the park lurks Toughie.   Today things go very wrong. When Toughie bullies Bean-Bean, her essential device is broken. As a punishment, Bean-Bean’s beloved rag bird Stormbeard gets prisoned in the highest branches of a tree. Luckily, in the bus BeanBean bumps into a lion-maned cheetah, a genuine, living, imaginary friend. Together they hasten to save Strombeard.   The atypical adventure takes the friends into a forest to bounce on a trampoline in the appearance of fantastic fruit, and into the drains where they end up at the mercy of mutant monsters and mammoths.   Alexandra Salmela and Linda Bondestam’s book is a crazy, funny and brilliantly colourful story about the power of the imagination and the courage to be yourself –whether you are a child using words in a funny way, an elephant in mammoth’s clothing or a self-absorbed, constantly blabbering cheetah.

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      • Patrik and the Senior Squad
        Children's & YA
        October 2010

        Patrik and the Senior Squad

        A witty and hilarious middle-grade series about retired people fighting crime.

        by Malin Klingenberg

        In a small-town school a boy sits in a class room, deep in thought. He’s called Patrik, and today will be the most exciting day of his life, although he doesn’t know it yet.   Soon enough the class tearaway, Irene, bullies Patrik into escaping from school. When he ends up on a wrong bus full of pensioners, it appears that one of the senior citizens has been kidnapped – and a group of villains are very interested in taking the other pensioners out of the game too…   In the Senior Squad series pensioners are living a secret life scuppering the evil plans of lowlifes with the help of two clever children, Patrik and Irene. The series includes six books: Patrik and The Senior Squad (2010), Irene and the Moneyhoover (2013), Fake Bernice (2015), The Fantastic Alfredo (2016), Rakel’s Miracles (2017) and The Magnificent Senior Match (2020).   The Senior Squad series has been praised for its crazy humor, quirky characters and action-filled plots that are perfect for young readers. The fourth novel of the series, The Fantastic Alfredo, was awarded with Runeberg Junior Prize in 2017.

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      • A Dog Called Cat Looking for Home
        Children's & YA
        November 2020

        A Dog Called Cat Looking for Home

        A warm-hearted story about three friends whose friendship, fairness and variety make them shine.

        by Tomi Kontio & Elina Warsta

        A dog called Cat, a cat called Dog and a homeless man called Weasel are best friends. They’ve got next to no worldly possessions but their lives are filled with friendship and love towards everyone and everything.   One day at a railway station Cat runs into a small girl who gets worried for the raggedy group of three and asks them whether Cat has no home. When the girl disappears into the crowd, Cat’s heart is filled with longing. Even though she loves roaming freely, winter can be cruel, and the endless wandering tough. She realises she is longing for a safe home.   Weasel says the three are fine as they are, but Cat and Dog disagree. ‘Friendship can’t keep you warm’, Dog meows to Weasel. The group starts to look for a home. Will they find it, or will the underpasses and vestibules be forever their fate?   A Dog Called Cat Looking for a Home is the third book by poet Tomi Kontio and illustrator Elina Warsta, in the series about a dog called Cat. The first instalment, A Dog Called Cat (2015) was nominated fort the Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize and got the IBBY honourable mention. The second one, A Dog Called Cat Meets a Cat (2019) was nominated for the Finlandia Junior prize and was chosen as an audience favourite.

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