Gyldendal Agency - Foreign Rights Guide, Children/Young Adult

Gyldendal Agency

GYLDENDAL AGENCY

Foreign Rights Guide - Spring 2024

Foreign Rights Guide | Spring 2024

Children & Young Adults

Children & Young Adults

Gyldendal Agency

Anne Cathrine Eng

anne.cathrine.eng@gyldendal.no Foreign Rights Director

Nina Pedersen

nina.pedersen@gyldendal.no Literary Agent

Kirsti Kristoffersen

kirsti.kristoffersen@gyldendal.no Film & TV Rights

Visitor Address:

Sehesteds gate 4

0130 Oslo, Norway

Postal Address:

P.o box 6860, St. Olavs plass 0130 Oslo, Norway

Printed in Norway

Printing: Webergs

Design: Sult Oslo

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COLD CLOVEN HOOVES

Ragnar Aalbu

PICTURE BOOK

Ragnar Albu (b. 1966) is a Norwegian illustrator and picture book author. He made his debut with Cow Focus in 2004, receiving the Department of Culture Debutant Prize. His books have received Department of Culture prizes thrice –The Picture Book Prize (2018), the Prize for Educational Works (with Stein Erik Lunde, 2015), and the aforementioned Debutant Prize. He has been nominated another three times.

Nominated for the BRAGE PRIZE.

A story about finding one’s place in the world and taking destiny in one’s cloven hooves.

It’s not easy to be a little reindeer on a huge mountain plateau, when all you want to do is to go to a palm beach and eat ice cream. Because reindeer can’t fly, exactly. Well, Rudolph can! And if he knows how, it must be possible to learn it, surely? The little reindeer seeks out the owl, who knows a thing or two about flying. The stage is set for a crash course.

Publisher: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag

Publication year: 2023

Pages: 48

Foreign Sales:

Sweden, ABC Forlag

Denmark, ABC Forlag

Germany, Thienemann-Esslinger France, Sens dessus dessou

THE DAD BATTERY

Tine Eide and Rune Markhus (ill.)

3-6 YEARS

A surprising, funny book full of contrast.

Mimmi’s dad has a battery inside of him. When his battery is fully charged, he grows extra arms, makes towers of pancakes and watches movies with Mimmi all night long. It is fun! But when his battery is flat, dad lays down on the sofa, tears streaming down his cheeks. At times like that, time moves super slowly. Luckily, Mimmi knows how to cheer him up again. But can she trick both dad and the royal family into believing that dad is the best painter of fine arts in the world?

Publisher: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag

Publication year: 2024

Pages: 54

Tine Eide (b. 1991) makes podcasts for kids and grown-ups, in addition to teaching journalism. The Dad Battery is her first book.

Rune Markhus (b. 1972) has received several awards for the books he has illustrated, amongst other things making a considerable mark of himself in the Year’s Most Beautiful Book Awards.

MOTOR-THOR ÅshildSkadbergandKristofferKjølberg(ill.)

3-6 YEARS

Funny and original book to read aloud to young car nerds.

All day long, Motor-Thor tinkers with cars, boats, el-bikes, and all kinds of vehicles. He loves his job and never goes on holiday – and besides, everyone in town depends on him. Without MotorThor and his workshop, no-one would be getting anywhere. However, Motor-Thor dreams of a bit of spare time to tend to his garden. How can he get that without the line of costumers growing out of hand? One day, he has a genius idea. He builds a Thor copy! A robot that can look after the workshop while he takes some well-deserved time off. This can never go wrong … can it?

Publisher: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag

Publication year: 2024

Pages: 47

Åshild Skadberg (b. 1968) is an author and works as an editor for NTB. She also writes for Aftenposten Junior.

Kristoffer Kjølberg (b. 1980) is a prizewinning illustrator and graphic designer. He is a member of the creative community Dongery.

GEORGE AND DIGGER’S FUNERAL HOME: THE BASEMENT

Hilde Hodnefjeld

6-9 YEARS

The first book in a new, fully illustrated series about George Digger.

George Digger’s house is a funeral home. George’s parents drop him off at school in a hearse, have urns with ashes in the kitchen cupboards, and keep dead people in the basement. But that’s not the worst. George can talk with dead bodies. Or rather, the deceased insist on talking to him. And they make a fuss about all kinds of things! They keep on pestering him, so George has promised himself never to go down to the basement again. But when Live begins in his class, George receives his biggest challenge yet. To prove that he is a good friend, he has to break his own pact: he needs to go down to the basement.

Publisher: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag

Publication year: 2024

Pages: 150

Hilde Hodnefjeld (b. 1966) has received several awards for earlier books. In 2021, she won the Cultural Department’s Prize for Picture Books as well as the Critic’s Award for the picture book Uppsa .

ALBA AND FINITO - THE MYSTERY OF THE SILENT PARROT

Lars Mæhle and Cathrine Sandmæl (ill.)

6-9 YEARS

New and original detective series!

Meet Alba, daughter of the celebrity veterinary that EVERYONE wants to help their pets. Finito: A police dog in early retirement who follows Alba wherever she goes. Including missions! In the first book, they need to head out to help a famous hotelowner’s parrot, who has stopped talking. Welcome to the new phenomenon!

Publisher: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag

Publication year: 2024

Pages: 100

The books are written by Lars Mæhle ( The Dinosaur Gang, The Crow’s Mansion Kindergarten Mystery ) and illustrated by Cathrine Sandmæl.

NOOR AND THE MYSTERY CLUB

Julia Kahrs

MIDDLE GRADE

Julia Kahrs (b. 1985) had her breakthrough with The Storm is Coming (2022), which earned her the Brage Prize, the Critics’ Prize and the Boksluker Prize, amongst others. She followed up the success with Noor and the Miniature, which was wonderfully received amongst critics and readers.

New exciting story from the narrative talent Julia Kahrs.

Noor and the Mystery Club have a problem: they lack mysteries. In addition, some of the members have been influenced by condescending glances and snide remarks about the club being childish. Noor needs to find a spectacular mystery, so that Frances and Andreas – and their miniatures – don’t leave the club behind for good. But the Mystery Club’s biggest and most dangerous case is way closer than Noor and Oor can imagine. Once again, the teachers at Hølen school must be scrutinized. What they find out, is wonderful, wild, and violent.

This is the second book in the Noor series.

Publisher: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag

Publication year: 2024

Pages: 200

NOOR AND THE MINIATURE

On just another day, Noor discovers something pretty unusual in the cellar: a miniature version of herself! Why on earth has Noor got a miniature? But perhaps this is precisely what she needs, because on top of her annoying classmates and huge amounts of homework, Noor has managed to sign up for the school’s Christmas show – not that she has a clue what she’s going to perform. And when circumstances surrounding the Christmas show turn unexpectedly shady and dangerous, having a sneaky miniature on your side turns out to be a good thing.

«Charmingly spirited», Dagbladet

Publisher: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag

Publication year: 2023

Pages: 192

Foreign Sales: Denmark, Staarup & Co

THE STORM IS COMING

A wild, exciting and highly original story from Julia Kahrs.

Gørja seems to be a completely ordinary place, with a school, a shop and a kiosk. But there are also secrets in Gørja that the adults cannot – or will not – explain. There have been two child disappearances from Gørja, and both times a storm raged through the streets and the forest, and across the lake and the sky. Now a new storm is brewing – and Sam’s family has only just moved here.

Winner of the Brage Prize 2022

Winner of the Norwegian Critics’ Prize 2022

Winner of the “Boksluker-prisen” 2022

Nominated for Ark’s Children’s Book Prize 2022

Publisher: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag

Publication year: 2022

Pages: 256

Foreign Sales:

Denmark, Straarup & Co. The Netherlands, útjouwerij DeRyp (Frisian language) Germany, Oetinger

DEVOURED Hans Jørgen Sandnes

Hans Jørgen Sandnes (b. 1979) is an illustrator, animator and cartoonist. Together with Jørn Lier Horst he created the Detective Agency No. 2 books, which is Norway’s best-selling children’s universe in book form with a print run of over 1.7 million. Hans Jørgen has illustrated classics such as Alf Prøysen’s Circus Mikkelikski and Anne-Cath. Vestly’s books The Big Book about Granny and the Eight Children and Twiglet. In the spring of 2020, Hans Jørgen Sandnes debuted as authorcartoonist with Into The Deep , the first book in the Crypto series.

The sixth book in the popular and thrilling Crypto series!

The fishermen in Saltvik believe that Little Krako is a danger and want to get rid of him. But Ophelia doesn’t think that Little Krako is guilty of destroying the boats in the harbour. There has to be something else in the water – a bigger monster. Ophelia dives beneath the surface, where she discovers piles of trash and an oil spill! Will Ophelia be able to convince the people in Saltvik that the monsters aren’t dangerous, but hungry? First, she has to make it back to Saltvik in one piece, because her voyage underwater is riskier than it’s ever been before. And what about the sea monster Ophelia has to deal with? She has closer ties to it than she first thinks.

Publisher: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag

Publication year: 2022

Pages: 128

Foregin Sales: Spain, Edebé Catalonia, Edebé Sweden, Nypon Vilja Denmark, Gads Forlag

DEEP FREEZE

Publisher:

Gyldendal Norsk Forlag

Publication year: 2022

Pages: 128

OPEN OCEAN

Publisher:

Gyldendal Norsk Forlag

Publication year: 2021

Pages: 128

FROST MIST

Publisher:

Gyldendal Norsk Forlag

Publication year: 2021

Pages: 128

THE HURRICANE

Publisher:

Gyldendal Norsk Forlag

Publication year: 2020

Pages: 128

INTO THE DEEP

Publisher:

Gyldendal Norsk Forlag

Publication year: 2020

Pages: 152

THE BOG CORPSE

Christoffer Lamøy

MIDDLE GRADE

Christoffer Lamøy (b. 1991) writes nail-biting horror stories for middle grade. For his first book, Haunted, he received the Cultural Department’s Debut Prize for Children and Young People’s Literature and the Children’s Book Award.

A thrilling horror story about hateful souls returned for revenge.

Mysterious things are happening around Marco. He finds dead animals without bones and something is tailing him through the woods. On Halloween, it’s been exactly one year since his friend Timothy disappeared, and when the Day of the Dead is approaching again, Marco fears that the new boy in class may be the next victim. What really happened to Timothy back then? And how can Marco stop it from happening again?

Publisher: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag

Publication year: 2024

Pages: 200

BROTHER Arne Svingen

MIDDLE GRADE

Arne Svingen (b. 1967) has published more than a hundred books for children and young people. He is the kids’ favourite author and has, amongst other things, won The ARK Children’s Book Prize and the Brage Prize.

How can you be a good brother to someone who always lets you down?

Fred’s big brother is not like other brothers. Bastian turns up in the middle of the night, often dances without music, and sometimes stands shouting in the middle of the schoolyard. But he also does dangerous things. The kinds of things that makes even more dangerous people come after him. Is it possible for Fred to help his brother?

Publisher: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag

Publication year: 2024

Pages: 192

Foreigns Sales:

Sweden, ABC Forlag

Denmark, ABC Forlag

JAKOB ON THE EGDE

Nina Borge and Tonje Clausen (ill.)

MIDDLE GRADE

The funny, warm, and sometimes painful story about Jakob who only wants to fit in, even if ADHD and Tourette’s make his everyday life a tad more complicated than his classmates’. Jakob always end up in sticky situations out of the blue. But he doesn’t do it on purpose! Quite often, the school day ends with him being stuck alone in the adjoining group room, and from there it’s kinda difficult to make friends. When a Minecraft competition is announced, he’ll finally have a chance to show that he’s good for something. If there’s one thing Jakob really excels at, it’s Minecraft.

Publisher: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag

Publication year: 2024

Pages: 176

Nina Borge (b. 1983) has written four books for young people, and with Jakob on the Egde she’s written her first book for middle grade. In Borge’s books, gaming plays a central role. For her first book, The Rogues, Borge was nominated to Uprisen.

NEVER BETTER

Alexander Kielland Krag

YOUNG ADULTS

Alexander Kielland Krag (b. 1992) won Uprisen for his last book, Not all bad . His first novel, This stays between us, received him the Trollkrittet Debut Prize. It was also nominated for the Book Bloggers’ Prize and the Cultural Department’s Debut Prize for Children and Young People’s Literature.

A riveting, heart-wrenching novel about losing someone way too early.

Jakob is dead. Left behind is his best friend Lucas and his ex-girlfriend Emma, both wondering what they could have done differently. Should they have been able to predict that Jakob would take his own life? In different ways, they try to move on and reclaim their lives. But what if moving on means forgetting Jakob? In the confusion and grief, they find each other. But how do you stick together when what you have in common is the person that you both have lost?

Publisher: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag

Publication year: 2024

Pages: 208

Foreign Sales: Denmark, Gads Forlag