A Lucky Shot
Magnus Ljunggren
The hightlight of the year is only a few days away – the Derby Cup! Last year both the boys and girls teams lost the finals to Ekeby. The boys were winning a bit into the first half of the game with 2-0 and yet they lost! This year they would take th…
A Heart of Ice
Jo Salmson
The third part in Jo Salmson’s exciting series Maro’s Journey.Maro’s journey continues. He and Unda are their way to the ice fields of Firn. Here they have to collect a few magic drops of honey from the nest of the dangerous winter bees. The honey is…
Olle Moves House
Berit Åberg
Mati Lepp and Berit Åberg portray an easily recognizable everyday situation. Olle has mixed feelings about moving to a bigger house and having his own room. “I’m not moving” says Olle when Mum and Dad tell him they’ve bought a nice big new house. A h…
Summer with Sigge
Lin Hallberg
At last, Elina’s dream of having a horse of her own comes true, even if it’s only for a few weeks. A change of scenery for Sigge and Elina can look after him as if he were her own: a whole summer with Sigge at grandma and grandpa’s farm. Here is the…
The Shadow Children
Ulf Stark
A modern, poetic and imaginative tale by the notable picture book duo Ulla Stark and Anna Höglund. In this incredibly beautiful book, two children set off to search for their missing shadows and ask the Creator to give them back. Evoking the memory o…
The Horror in the Attic
Anders Jacobsson
Kip Jansson is a guy with the biggest of hearts, in the warmest and craziest of families who live in a house with some noisy neighbours on an ordinary street in an ordinary Swedish town. The book’s main character writes: “I have not yet described wha…
The Shadow and the Dragon
Jo Salmson
This is the second part in Jo Salmson’s exciting series “Maro’s Journey”. We meet a boy whose destiny takes him on a secret mission in the service of the king. A compelling book for starter readers with brilliant black and white drawings by Åsa Ekstr…