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Do you remember the crystal whiteness of winter, the green growth of spring, the magical potential of twilight? Do you remember the worlds we discovered in books and stories, in the great outdoors, and in our own imaginations? Now readers of all ages can experience these indescribable feelings over and over through evocative artwork and concise text by Norway''s most popular and highly awarded illustrator, Lisa Aisato. This lavish book - perfect for both children''s home libraries and adults'' coffee tables-features a selection of Aisato''s classics as well as never-before-seen paintings .

THE MIGHT is the furious conclusion to the fantasy epic THE RAVEN RINGS and is about the search for one's own roots, prejudices, power struggles, arrogance and love.I loved (Odin's Child) deeply from the first to the last word, and was instantly and thoroughly immersed. -- Laini Taylor, bestselling author of Daughter of Smoke and Bone. ...The story examines and upends everything its characters believe in, including their world, their history, their faith, and themselves, while intertwining elements of politics and Norse mythology with a side of forbidden romance. Kirkus Reviews Blood magic, blackmail, and battle rock a rich world of fading magic to its core in this internationally bestselling Norwegian epic fantasy. Publishers Weekly The intrigue, scope, and depth of His Dark Materials, set in an immersive Nordic world as fierce and unforgettable as its characters.  Rosaria Munda, author Fireborne/Flamefall - Aurelian Cycle The world building is stupendous. MidWest Book Review HIrka has been sent to the world of the blind, a powerful and immortal people whom she has been taught to fear since infancy--and who now see her as their only chance to reignite a thousand-year-old war. The blind will use Hirka's ability to travel between worlds to return to Ym, the land where Hirka grew up and where the blind were betrayed all those years ago. And this time, they will prevail. Hirka is torn between her loyalties to the people who birthed her and the people who raised her, between the savior she is expected to be and the individual she wants to be. And every choice she makes pulls her further away from Rime, the love of her life, who is doing everything he can to stop Ym from falling to pieces all around him.  A million things stand between Hirka and Rime. But only together can they stop the end of the worlds.     \

To protect her homeland of Ym, Hirka left it behind. She travelled through a portal to an unfamiliar world - that world is modern-day Europe. Hirka was supposed to fit in with humans here. And her departure was supposed to be save Ym from the invasion of the blind. Yet none of that has happened. Instead, Hirka finds herself just as much of an outsider among the humans as she was among ymlings. Separated by worlds, both Hirka and Rime must find a way to stop a thousand-year-old evil from destroying not only Ym, but every world in existence.

For fans of The Raven Boys and American Gods. Following up on the cliffhanger ending of Book 1, where Anna has learned who is responsible for the series of bestial murders taking place in her hometown and learns that they are connected with an ancient prophecy about the end of the world. Book 2 sets off with Anna reaching Hrafnheim, an unknown parallel world full of gods, demigods and creatures. There she is picked up by soldiers of the ruler Ragnara, but a renegade officer of the army, Rorik, frees her. Together, they set out to free her twin sister, Serén, who has been captured by Ragnara. The road to the capital of Sént is fraught with deadly dangers, and the vision of her own murder plagues Anna ceaselessly. She begins to understand more and more that Ragnarok, the downfall of the world, is directly linked to her own fate . . .

A fantastical romance with Norse roots that's a thriller murder mystery!Chamomile, Kirstine, Victoria and Malou are back at Rosenholm Academy to start a new school year. But in addition to the lessons in runic magic, clairvoyance and Norse mythology, the girls also have something completely different to worry about. A crime from the past draws threads to the present, and the girls have committed themselves to solving the murder mystery that casts a shadow over Rosenholm. An ominous prediction causes the seriousness to dawn on them, while the questions loom large. And each of them harbors deep secrets that threaten to tear them apart before they can fulfill the promise they made. Time is running out and it could end up being fatal... Forget me not is the exciting sequel to the fantasy novel Roses and Violets and volume 2 in the Rosenholm trilogy.

A retelling of the classic battle of wits–The Three Little Pigs–with illustrations by the legendary European artist Bernadette Watts that will charm you up to your chinny-chin-chin!Bernadette Watts brings one of the most beloved fairy tales to life with her colorful and delightfully detailed illustrations. Retelling it with all of the pluck and charm of the classic tale, Watts ensures that everything ends happily and no one gets eaten! In addition to the adorable pigs and the expressive big bad wolf, a bevy of endearing animals befriend the little pigs and add enchantment to this story time favorite.

Kurt macht sich über Felix lustig, weil Felix die kleinste Tanne in der Baumschule für Weihnachtsbäume ist. An Heiligabend kommen die Tierfamilien und suchen sich ihre Tanne aus. Felix wird zunächst nicht beachtet. Doch dann entdeckt ihn Selma, ein Hasenkind, das genau wie Felix überall die Kleinste ist. Bald feiert und singt die Hasenfamilie gemeinsam, und vor Glück stimmt Felix lauthals mit ein. Der Schweizer Bestseller-Autor Thomas Meyer erzählt seine etwas andere Weihnachtsgeschichte mit viel Witz, aber doch ganz im Geist des Festes. Philippe Goossens, Illustrator der »Heule Eule«, kreiert mit seinen Bildern eine warme Stimmung. Seine Figuren erobern die Herzen!

A picture book for anyone who has ever lost anything!Worm runs one of the best lost and found offices in the world. He has a rare ability to find things. Lost umbrella? Missing keys? Misplaced toy? If it is lost, then Worm can find it. But then the unthinkable happens: Worm can't find his hat!Worm's absent-minded friend Seal is always losing things. But can she help Worm find his beloved hat? Seal has the perfect solution: look left, look right, then . . . make pancakes? Can Seal's silly solution actually help Worm find his favorite cap?In Jule Wellerdiek's first book with NorthSouth she finds a humorous way to deal with things that are lost, and celebrates the joy that comes with finding things when you least expect it.

In einem Park trifft Franz auf Saskia und ihre Mutter. Das Mädchen ist ganz verzweifelt, weil es sein Püppi verloren hat. Um Saskia zu trösten, erfindet Franz eine Geschichte: Die Puppe sei gar nicht verloren gegangen, sondern verreist, und werde ihr bald schreiben. Und tatsächlich bringt Franz in den kommenden Wochen Post von Püppi - von fernen Orten. Aber wird die Puppe wirklich zurückkommen zu Saskia? Die Geschichte basiert auf einer Anekdote, die über Franz Kafka erzählt wird. Bernadette hat sich davon zu einer warmherzigen Erzählung inspirieren lassen. Mit altmeisterlichem Vergnügen begleitet sie ihre Figuren durch den Lauf der Jahreszeiten und führt sie an Schauplätze in fernen Ländern.

Jede Hexe braucht ein Haustier an ihrer Seite. Doch wer an schwarze Katzen oder Kröten denkt, liegt falsch. Denn in »Hippe Hexen« sind die tierischen Gefährten genauso originell und sympathisch wie ihre Hexen. Eine lässt sich von ihrem Äffchen die pinke Mähne schneiden, die andere zimmert ausgefallene Häuschen für ihre Gänse. Mit ihrem Bilderbuch-Debüt räumt die deutsche Illustratorin und Autorin April Suddendorf mit einem Klischee auf: Hexen sind keine bösen, alten Drachen, sondern moderne, vielseitige Frauen aus aller Welt. Raffinierte Reime geben einen Einblick in ihren Alltag.

Heute ist Fototag im Dinokindergarten. Frida trägt extra ihren Lieblingshut. Aber nach dem Mittagessen ist er plötzlich weg, und Frida ist verzweifelt. Alle Dino-Kinder helfen ihr suchen, bis sie den Hut in einem Baum entdecken: Ein Vogel hat daraus sein Nest gebaut! Erst möchte sie ihn zurück, doch dann spürt Frida, dass der Vogel ihren Lieblingshut mehr braucht als sie. Für den Fototermin basteln sie und ihre Freunde sich einfach bunte Hüte! Sean Julians niedliche Dino-Gruppe ist zurück: »Fridas Hut« ist das zweite Abenteuer nach »Normans erster Tag«. Die quirlige Geschichte vermittelt schon den Kleinsten, dass Großzügigkeit glücklich macht.

The seven voyages of Sinbad, from A Thousand and One Arabian Nights, have been thrilling readers and listeners for generations. Sinbad, the merchant adventurer, encounters treasure, a sea-monster, the Old Man of the Sea, and more in this captivating and stunningly illustrated retelling.

Viking gender roles are turned on their head! Dagfrid’s brother, Odalrik, has turned sixteen years old. For his birthday, he gets a sword and should be in training to be a great warrior, but all Dagfrid sees him doing is laying around. All the while, she not only has to do the cleaning and sewing, but has been given the “honor” of preparing the meal for the chief’s banquet. Come to find out, Odalrik is bored and would love to learn how to cook and sew so he’s not so bored all the time, but his lot in life as a male is to be a leader.  Together, they decide it’s all nonsense, so, hiding behind their house, Odalrik helps Dagfrid with the banquet and not only feels useful, but is quite good at cooking.

"Eighteen-year-old Kasper has gone through a rough time, but now hehas landed his dream job at the amusement park Grèona Lund. He befriends Iris who teaches him how to terrify guests in the haunted house. Thirty years earlier, in Stockholm of the eighties, sixteen-year-old Hêakan's life changes when he meets Grim. They live and breathe music and have big plans for their death metal band. But it all comes to nothing when Grim dies. Hêakan breaks up the band. What really happened? Kasper, who is Hêakan's son, tries to find out the truth. Together with Iris he delves into the myths and secrets surrounding the band, and his dad's best friend. Grim, who inexplicably died at such a young age. Who was he? And why does he appear in Kasper s dreams?"--Provided by publisher.

Told in diary format, 14-year-old Franny journals about the year when she is sent away from the only home she’s known to live with family members she didn’t know she had all while her father goes to Japan on a research trip.Franny is a feisty 14-year-old with a gift for turning her thoughts and feelings into drawings. She lives in Montreal with her father, a sewing machine repair man by day and inventor by night. When he’s invited to pursue his research in Japan, Franny is sent to a small town far away from Montreal and all her friends. She will meet a part of her family she has never heard of before and will have to adapt to a new school and a new life. Soon, she will discover that this is the town where her mother lived before she died, when Franny was very young. This leads Franny to investigate the mystery behind her mother’s death and discovers a terrible truth.

"Born to blood readers who prey on people's fears, Juva vows never to become one of them until her family is threatened by vardari, the eerie lasting ones who never age, drawing her into a desperate hunt for her legacy--one that could change the world"--

"From the excitement of a first snowfall to spring flowers blooming to the magic of summer's warm winds, A Dream for Every Season will have children dreaming of the natural world in this beautiful bedtime book. The beauty of each season of the year...the change each season brings...the passage of time and its special charm come to life in poetic rhyme, accompanied by gorgeous illustrations in this bedtime book."--]cFrom Amazon.com

After accidentally coming across a gate in time, a teenage boy is on the run in 1492 during the height of the Spanish Inquisition. He has to figure out how to get back to the present time without changing the course of history.While on a school trip to Spain, Boston and his classmates visit an outdoor market. Boston reaches for an item that catches his eye when suddenly, everything is different. Through a door in time, he lands in 1492, in the shadow of the Spanish Inquisition. There, danger is around every corner. He arouses the suspicions of the Spanish royal court and at the palace of Alhambra, where he falls into the cruel clutches of the Inquisition. But two new friends, Tariq and Salomon, threatened as a Muslim and a Jew, support him in this desperate situation. Boston must find a way back to the present time while making sure the course of history stays intact.

Could summer in your neighborhood turn out to be better than an exotic holiday overseas? Ina and her new neighbor Vilmer are about to find out…  Ina has no plans for the summer. Suddenly, she finds herself lying in front of the entire class, telling them she is going to the Mediterranean for three weeks. And then the lie keeps growing and growing via social media. The only problem is that the new boy in class has moved to Ina’s neighborhood and he will easily find out that she is not in the Mediterranean. Perhaps the best summer holiday is the one you thought would be the worst? A warm, believable story about friendship, first love, and social media from Norwegian author Marianne Kaurin.

Two messengers, six allies, one fight for survival! A gateway to a world of the past, of vanished names, hopes and dreams has opened in the depths of the Black Forest. Two messengers from the immense sunken realms of time, Tristan and Martha, used to be lovers, now sworn enemies. They have come together to fight one final, decisive battle, but they must search the Black Forest to find six comrades-in-arms. Ultimately, five fighters for doom and three fighters for preservation will face each other. And the battle of the eight will continue until only one of them is left and the fate of humanity is sealed.

Scandinavian noir meets YA in a jam-packed novel that’s part whodunit, part romance, part end-of-the-world narrative. - Publishers Weekly When will the world end? With a massive comet hurtling toward Earth, humanity now knows the exact date.A Kirkus Best Young Adult Book of 2020 Kirkus Reviews Best YA Books of 2020 About Chasing Dreams Kirkus Reviews "...utterly brilliant in its humanity." Kirkus Reviews  Weekly STARRED REVIEW! "A stellar work of fiction that will cling to readers' minds and take hold of their hearts."  School Library Journal "This intense novel will grip readers..."  -- Laura Simeon International Stories for Teens, Kirkus Reviews  It’s the end of the world and seventeen-year-old Simon wants to spend his last weeks with the people he cares about most, especially his goal-oriented swimmer ex-girlfriend, Tilda, who dumped him shortly after the news broke. Tilda’s former best friend Lucinda was diagnosed with cancer, and  she has retreated into herself, preparing for the inevitable. Suddenly facing down a death that makes her the same as everyone else, she longs to connect again but doesn’t quite know where to start. Reaching out to her former best friend Tilda seems like a good first step. Then Tilda is found dead and accusations start circling that Simon is the killer. As the days tick down, Simon and Lucinda want to know the truth, but the more they uncover about the final days of the girl they both cared for deeply, the clearer the things that really matter become.  Probing the question How would you spend your last days if you knew exactly when they’d run out?, The End is a taut and riveting pre-apocalyptic thriller underpinned with sharp social commentary, that blends the urgency of Neal and Jarrod Shusterman’s Dry with the dark tension of Courtney Summer’s Sadie

This book contains Count Dracula''s rather true memoirs. And there are tons of hideous creatures in it. Giant yetis, insidious werewolves, slimy fish monsters... You might learn things you didn''t know about monsters before. Hair-raising things that make these monsters appear friendly, even downright human. So, take my advice, you only have one chance: put the book down quickly and move on before you get caught in its clutches! But if you do read this book, you will be enchanted by the incredibly imaginative full-colour illustrations throughout, the fabulously appealing cover, and the original wit captured within.

When peasant John Little witnesses the Sheriff of Nottingham''s men destroying his village for John''s crime of poaching deer to feed his people, he flees into the tangle of Sherwood Forest with the only other survivor, his young foster daughter Marian. But dangers lurk there, too: the outlaw Robin Hood soon catches them and takes them prisoner. As the newly dubbed Little John gets an education in how to fit into Robin''s dangerous band, Marian, too, grows into a force to be reckoned with.