Margareta Nordqvist
Margareta Nordqvist illustrates several series about animals, Djurkompisar and Sigge. Her illustrations are very precise, neat and full of warmth.
Books by Margareta Nordqvist
Sigge and the Stable Friends: Autumn Adventures
Lin Hallberg
It’s Friday, the best day of the week — it means that Saga and her friends are going riding at Broby Stables. That’s where Sigge lives, the world’s cutest Shetland pony!Today, they are going to tidy up around the stable. And later, the older girls ar…
Lillis’ Dream
Margareta Nordqvist
A thrilling nighttime adventure for beginner readers. Margareta Nordqvist’s Animal Friendsseries offers enchanting and easy reading in large print.When big brother Eddi reads a bedtime story about wild animals, Lillis drifts off to sleep. In her drea…
Swedish title: Lillis dröm
Series: Animal Friends
Category: Children
Pub date: 28-12-2022
Format: 148 x 210 mm, 64 pages, colour
Beloved SIgge
Lin Hallberg
The Sigge series features Elina and her friends at the cosy stable in Broby. And Sigge of course, the cutest little Shetland pony Elina has ever seen. As always, Margareta Nordqvist’s pictures are the perfect fit to the heart-warming story by Lin Hal…
Willy the Puppy
Margareta Nordqvist
Animal Friends is a sweet and easy-to-read series in verse form.Edie is getting his very own dog, a little puppy! Willy the Puppy is charming but rather naughty, too. While mostly funny, it is also quite tiring for Edie to teach Willy all the things…
Swedish title: Valpen Ville
Series: Animal Friends
Category: Children
Pub date: 27-12-2021
Format: 148 x 210 mm, 64 pages, colour.
Sigge’s Friendship Book
Lin Hallberg
Sigge the little Shetland pony is more popular than ever! Sigge’s Friendship Book is reissued in an updated colourful version, where friends can fill in information about themselves. And of course, there are also pages where you can fill in details a…
Dance with Sigge
Lin Hallberg
It’s springtime and the horses at the Broby Stables are busy training to compete in the big dressage event in Denmark. Elina and Sigge are going to show the world what they can do. Spirits are high and when everything is going well, it almost feels l…
Spot On
Margareta Nordqvist
Lillis has a horse of her own. A hobby horse called Poppi! But more than anything she wants to ride a real horse, a living one. Eddi is big and he can ride. Lillis goes with her friend to help him take care of his horse Spot. And guess what? Lillis e…
Swedish title: På Pricken
Series: Animal Friends
Category: Children
Pub date: 28-12-2020
Format: 148 x 210 mm, 64 pages, colour
In the Stable with Sigge
Lin Hallberg
Sigge, everyone’s favourite pony, is back!It’s time to open the new stable and to organise training camps for the Christmas holidays. The main activity is going to be dressage and the group gets to practise with a real dressage judge. Their goal is t…
Clip Clop
Margareta Nordqvist
Easy reading in capital letters for curious new readers. Clip Clop is the fourteenth book in the “Animal Friends” series, which is perfect for little animal lovers who are just beginning to read for themselves.Ella is off to visit her cousins with he…
Swedish title: Hipp Hopp
Series: Animal Friends
Category: Children
Pub date: 03-01-2020
Format: 148 x 210 mm, 64 pages, colour
Rising Trot
Lin Hallberg
Saga and Harry have started taking riding lessons at the Broby stable, and they have loads of questions. Why do the riding court’s sides have letters on them? How can you get the horse to go where you want? And what does rising trot mean? With some h…
Compete With Sigge
Lin Hallberg
The Sigge books form a popular series about horses. Everybody Loves Sigge, the first book in the series, was awarded a prize by the Book Jury, which is the children’s own list of the year’s best books. The books have also been praised by critics and…
Billy is Bathing
Margareta Nordqvist
This is the thirteenth book of the popular and mischievous “Animal Friends” series, for absolute beginner readers. We follow the children Maja, Lasse, Pelle and Ella who live on the countryside and love to take care of different animals. With text in…
Swedish title: Billy badar
Series: Animal Friends
Category: Children
Pub date: 27-12-2018
Format: 148x210 mm, 64 pages, colour
Gallop on, Sigge
Lin Hallberg
A new book in this favourite series for all young horse enthusiasts. Sigge, the stable and her horse-loving friends are the most important things in Elina’s life but her mum and dad say that three days a week at the stables is enough. She has to conc…
Gallop On, Sigge
Lin Hallberg
Sigge, the stable and her horse-loving friends are the most important things in Elina’s life but her mum and dad say that three days a week at the stables is enough. She has to concentrate on her schoolwork too. And it doesn’t even help when Elina te…
Farm Life
Margareta Nordqvist
There are lots of cows and calves on Pelle´s farm, including his favourite cow Saga. And she’s about to give birth to a calf. How exciting! While Pelle and his grandmother are waiting for the little calf to be born, she tells him tales about how life…
Swedish title: Min Saga
Series: Animal Friends
Category: Children
Pub date: 27-12-2017
Format: 148x210 mm, 64 pages, colour
Sigge’s Activity Book
Lin Hallberg
Here comes an activity book packed with funny crafts. A perfect gift for all horse lovers! Choose the right path to the stables through the maze, draw your dream horse, read Sigge’s 10 Commandments and much much more … The book includes 50 stickers…
Sally and Sigge
Lin Hallberg
A new term starts at the riding school and the riding instructor Ingela says that everyone must try and ride other horses than their usual one in order to be a really experienced rider. When Elina is to ride Nanou, tears are not far away. Why is Nan…
Amazing Tor
Margareta Nordqvist
A flock of adventurous chickens is on the loose! This is the eleventh book of the popular “Animal Friends” series, for absolute beginner readers. Some children live in the countryside and take care of various animals. Maja gets five chickens from h…
Swedish title: Toppen Tor
Series: Animal Friends
Category: Children
Pub date: 27-12-2016
Format: 148x210 mm, 64 pages
Ready to Go Sigge
Lin Hallberg
Summer with its long, lazy days is coming to an end. The horses have also had a summer rest but they need to be ridden right up until the autumn term starts at school. Elina and her friends have to help out. Ingela plans a long trek with an overnight…
Puzzel Gets a Friend
Isabelle Halvarsson
Puzzel is a happy little Jack RusselI terrier who is curious about everything. So when she sees a little shadow dart across the park, she has of course to find out what it is. When Puzzel runs after the little shadow into the bushes she is met by a p…
Billy Gets up to Mischief
Margareta Nordqvist
Easy-to-read mischief in the paddock and out! This is about a naughty horse who refuses to stay in the paddock. A new horse is coming to stay at the farm with Pelle for a while. His name is Billy. He looks nice but a bit sly. At first Billy and Pelle…
Swedish title: Billy busar
Series: Animal Friends
Category: Children
Pub date: 28-12-2015
Format: 148 x210 mm, 64 pages
Swim Sam
Margareta Nordqvist
The series Animal Friends is about a couple of children who live in the countryside and look after different animals. This time Lasse and Lisa have acquired an aquarium with all that it entails including taking care of it and the dramas involved: Fra…
Swedish title: Simma Sam
Series: Animal Friends
Category: Children
Pub date: 16-03-2015
Format: 148x210 mm 64 pages, color
You and Me Sigge
Lin Hallberg
Old and new friends meet at Broby farm to participate in Ingela’s riding and training camp and the week will be rounded off with horse competitions. You can read more about Sam and Sigge in the Broby kids’ Shetland ponies that tell the stories of Eli…
Sam and Sigge – The first Chirstmas
Lin Hallberg
Swedish title: Sam och Sigge och den första julen
Category: Children
Pub date: 15-10-2014
Format: 148x210 mm, 96 pages, color
Puzzel goes to school
Isabelle Halvarsson
Puzzel is a live ly and curious little J ack Russell terrier. She always wants to join in. This time she gets to help out at school and go to a castle where there are ghosts… An easy to read and fun book for children who have just started to read a…
Swedish title: Puzzel i skolan
Category: Children
Pub date: 15-08-2014
Format: 128 pages, 148 x 210 mm, b/w illustrations
Oh dear Ture
Margareta Nordqvist
Lasse and Lisa have two rabbits Hasse and Bruno who live in a run in the garden. During the summer they also look after Kajsas dear little rabbit Ture. Ture and Hasse curiously rub noses. But soon Ture becomes very fat and one day there are three bab…
Swedish title: Oj oj Ture
Series: Animal Friends
Category: Children
Pub date: 17-03-2014
Format: 64 pages, 148 x 210 mm, color
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…
Sam and Sigge and the Long Journey
Lin Hallberg
Puzzle at the Circus
Isabelle Halvarsson
Finding Bosse
Margareta Nordqvist
Bossie the naughty cat has disappeared. While frantically searching for him, Ella his owner discovers lots of exciting things. Finding Bossie is a colourful outdoor adventure. The reader learns the names of many different plants and lots of inte…
Swedish title: Hitta Bosse
Series: Animal Friends
Category: Children
Pub date: 08-04-2013
Format: 64 pages, 148x210mm, color
Sigge forever
Lin Hallberg
Elina can hardly believe it´s true! She is going to be allowed to look after Sigge all by herself. As she shuts the cupboard where all of Sigge´s gear and halter are kept, she feels as though Jossan has given her a prize! It´s hard to say goodb…
Sam & Sigge and the Knight brother’s
Lin Hallberg
The Sigge books form a series about horses written by Lin Hallberg and illustrated throughout by Margareta Nordquist. Everybody Loves Sigge was awarded a prize by the Book Jury, which is the list of the year’s best books chosen by Swedish children th…
Puzzel finds a trail
Isabelle Halvarsson
Puzzle is one year old and Mimmi, Mummy and Gustav are going to have a party for her. All Puzzle’s doggy friends are coming plus one that she doesn’t know. A big, black dog called Molly, who belongs to Isak, the man who works at the Customs house.Puz…
Sigge at last
Lin Hallberg
At last Elina has become a stable girl and is allowed to be part of the stable gang. Of course it’s tired old Atle she has to look after and not the wonderful Sigge, but it’s still great to feel like one of the big girls and it is almost like having…
Lollo the pig
Margareta Nordqvist
When Maja has to look after Lollo the pig, it is rather more chaotic than she bargained for. Little pigs are not just sweet they are naughty and stubborn too!This is the sixth book in an easy-to-read series about pets written by Margareta Nordqvist,…
Swedish title: Lilla Lollo
Series: Animal Friends 6
Category: Children
Pub date: 01-03-2012
Format: 64 pages, 148x210 mm, color
Puzzel in Puppy Training
Isabelle Halvarsson
An affectionate, sweet series for all dog-loving children who have just begun to read for themselves. About life as seen through the eyes of Puzzle, the little Jack Russell puppy. Richly illustrated in black and white by Margareta Nordqvist who also…
Swedish title: Puzzel på valpkurs
Category: Children
Pub date: 22-08-2011
Format: 64 pages, 148 x 210 mm, b/w
The Night Sigge was Born
Lin Hallberg
Simon and Eric are never tired of hearing their mother’s stories of their beloved Shelties, Sam and SiggeThis one is the exciting tale of the stormy night out on the moors when Sigge was born. An easy-to-read book in full colour for all the girls and…
Come on Tulla
Margareta Nordqvist
When Pelle is riding Tulla he dreams he is far away; he is cowboy, Indian and knight.“Come on Tulla!” is the fifth book in an easy-to-read series about pets written by Margareta Nordqvist, who illustrates the popular Sigge books. The series “Animal f…
Swedish title: Heja Tulla
Category: Children
Pub date: 30-05-2011
Format: 64 pages, 148x210 mm, color
Jump High Sigge!
Lin Hallberg
Finally Half Term is here and Elina can ride Sigge to the big riding school. In the manege Elina is allowed to gallop and jump with Sigge, but he is in his most awkward mood and it all goes wrong. And up on the benches Jossan and her friends are sitt…
It’s haunted, Sigge
Lin Hallberg
Now the third term at Broby Farm is starting. Elina, Hanna, Mattis and Agnes can help more and more in the stables. The first riding lesson turns into a surprise when two new pupils turn up. What if they want to ride and groom the girls’ favourite ho…
Swedish title: Det spökar, Sigge
Category: Children
Pub date: 23-08-2010
Format: 148 pages, 148x210 mm, color
Puzzle the Little Smuggle Dog
Isabelle Halvarsson
Easy-to-read and full of insights for children who love animals! A new, cosy series for all children who love dogs and have just started to read themselves. About the little Jack Russell puppy, Puzzle, who is smuggled into Sweden and ends up in a kin…
Hurrah for Bella
Margareta Nordqvist
Bella is a real circus artist, she can hop, balance and dance. Together with Poppe the dog she (with the help of her masters) arranges a little performance for their friends. In Bravo Bella, Ella and Bella the dog teach various acts and tricks to Pel…
Swedish title: Bravo Bella
Series: Animal Friends
Category: Children
Pub date: 26-07-2010
Format: 64 pages, 148x210mm, color
Adventure with Sigge
Lin Hallberg
Ghostly horses, grilling sausages and a brilliant adventure!Elina has been given the best present in the world! Well, apart from being given Sigge, of course. She’s been invited on an adventure trek with Eric, Simon and Ingela, and she will be riding…
Poppe’s Sticks
Margareta Nordqvist
Poppe’s Sticks is the third book in an easy-to-read series about pets by Margareta Nordqvist, the illustrator of the popular books about Sigge the pony. Animal Friends is part of the Extra Easy to Read series for those who are just beginning to learn…
Swedish title: Poppes pinnar
Series: Animal Friends
Category: Children
Pub date: 08-03-2010
Format: 64 pages, 148x210mm, colour
Hop, Hasse!
Margareta Nordqvist
Hop, Hasse! is the second book in an easy-to-read series about pets by Margareta Nordqvist, the illustrator of the popular books about Sigge the pony. Animal Friends is part of the Extra Easy to Read series for those who are just beginning to learn h…
Swedish title: Hoppa Hasse
Category: Children
Pub date: 15-08-2009
Format: 64 pages, 148x210mm, color
Swim safe Sigge
Lin Hallberg
Kitty’s Kittens
Margareta Nordqvist
New easy reader series about animals by the illustrator of the Sigge stories.Kitty has a big round tummy. There are kittens inside it. Maja is curious. Are there ten kittens? Or just one? Kitty’s Kittens is the first in an easy reader series about pe…
Swedish title: Kattas ungar
Category: Children
Pub date: 09-03-2009
Format: 64 pages, 148x210mm, color
At the Riding Camp with Sigge
Lin Hallberg
At the Riding Camp with Sigge is the fifth book about pony-mad Elina and her friend who meet up at the delightful Shetland pony stables at Broby, run by Ingela, the best riding instructor in the world! It’s the summer holidays, and time for riding ca…
Happy – a Horse in a Million
Lin Hallberg
One day it happens, just like it always does in the books about horses that Madde reads. Madde’s dad tells her she’s going to get her very own horse to look after, because she’s been so lonely while her mum has been ill. Madde finds Happy, the wonder…
Swedish title: Happy - en häst på miljonen
Category: Children
Pub date: 07-08-2007
Format: 96 pages, b/w illustrations
April Fool, Sigge
Lin Hallberg
The Sigge books form a series about horses written by Lin Hallberg and illustrated throughout by Margareta Nordquist. Everybody Loves Sigge was awarded a prize by the Book Jury, which is children’s own list of the year’s best books. The books have al…
Sigge’s Friendship Book
Lin Hallberg
Sigge the little Shetland pony is more popular than ever! Sigge’s Friendship Book is reissued in an updated colourful version, where friends can fill in information about themselves. And of course, there are also pages where you can fill in details a…
Come On, Sigge
Lin Hallberg
Come On, Sigge! is the third book in the series about the Shetland pony Sigge and pony-mad Elina and her friends who meet up at the delightful Shetland pony stables at Broby, run by Ingela, the best riding instructor in the world!Here Elina meets Sig…
Thursdays with Sigge
Lin Hallberg
Elina yearns and yearns. Her Shetland pony Sigge is in the stable in Broby, ill but getting better. And surely she will be the one who gets to look after and ride him as soon as he is well enough?The second book in the series about the Broby kids’ Sh…
Everybody loves Sigge
Lin Hallberg
This is the first book in a series about Elina, a little girl who is absolutely mad about horses. Here Elina meets Sigge, the sweetest little Shetland pony you ever did see. It’s love at first sight!But one day when Elina arrives at the stables, Sigg…
Fräs, den lilla panterkatten
Isabelle Halvarsson