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August Prize to The Boys

By Bert Menninga on 2011-11-22
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Sweden's top book prize goes to Jessica Schiefauer's children's book.

Jessica Schiefauer's Pojkarna (The boys) won Sweden's prestigious book award, the August Prize 2011 for the Swedish children's and young adult book of the year. The prize was announced yesterday at a ceremony in Stockholm. The jury wrote that "boy country is infiltrated with a sharp and revealing girl's point of view.

A Million Nursery Books

By Bert Menninga on 2011-11-14
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Bonnier Carlsen's Barnkammarbok series of children's nursery books celebrates the one-million milestone.

Sweden is a land of singers, with far more than its fair share of famous artists, from pop icons to opera divas. One reason could be that Swedish children learn to sing at a young age. And children's book publisher Bonnier Carlsen has done its part with the Barnkammarbok series - nursery books - which feature the music and words of a wide range of songs for children. The beautiful hardcover books come with a CD of the music, so children and parents can listen and sing along.

Tintin and More Tintin

By Bert Menninga on 2011-10-26
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While Tintin hits the big screen, book publisher Bonnier Carlsen helps bloggers take him to computer screens throughout Sweden.

Popular comic book figure Tintin first made his appearance in 1929 in Belgium - it's taken 80 years for the intrepid character to make his Hollywood debut. The Adventures of Tintin, which opened on Sunday in Belgium and opens on Oct.

No. 1 for LasseMaja App

By Bert Menninga on 2011-10-25
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Less than a week after its debut, the new LasseMaja app for kids has made a strong start.

When the first LasseMaja book was published in 2002, no one had heard of an iPhone. But nearly ten years after their first appearance, the popular Swedish children's series featuring the intrepid Lasse and Maja and their detective agency has now debuted as an app for the iPhone - and it's already No. 1 for games/kids in Sweden at the App Store. The app was launched on Oct.

August Prize Nominees Named

By Bert Menninga on 2011-10-17
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Bonnierförlagen books nominated in several categories for Sweden's top book award, the August Prize.

Today the nominees were announced to Sweden's No. 1 book award, the Augustpriset 2011.

Bonnier Carlsen Organizes Short Story Contest

By Bert Menninga on 2011-10-14
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Teenagers and young adults up to 24 can send in their horror short stories and win editing help from Magnus Nordin.

Magnus Nordin. Photo: Stefan Tell

Children's and young adult book publisher Bonnier Carlsen started working with Ungdomar.se this year. At the portal, author Lina Forss has been blogging and Katerina Janouch has been answering questions about love and sex, among other things.

"When you work with children's and young adult books you need to be creative to find new ways of reaching readers," says Tove Kullenberg, information and public relations manager at Bonnier Carlsen.

LasseMaja Series Out as E-books

By Bert Menninga on 2011-05-23
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Bonnier Carlsen's popular children's detective series launched as e-books - in Swedish and English. 

Bonnier Carlsen's children's books about the detective agency LasseMaja have been a big hit in Sweden. The five books from the series are now being released as e-books - in Swedish and in cooperation with Weldon Owen in San Francisco in English, with LasseMaja, the main character, called JerryMaya.

The books will be in an e-pub format and will be available worldwide at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks and other places.

Lots of Dinosaurs Invade the iPad

By Bert Menninga on 2010-12-20
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Bonnier Carlsen's children's book Lots of Dinosaurs for the iPad gets a global release.

Sarah Sheppard's children's book Lots of Dinosaurs was written by a dino lover for other dino lovers, no matter what size or age. The award-winning top-seller from Bonnier Carlsen is now out in a global iPad version in English and Swedish, complete with everything from straight facts to weird noises and a whole bunch of surprises sure to inspire plenty of talk about the life of dinosaurs.

Bonnier Carlsen Book Tusen gånger starkare To Be a Feature Film

By Bert Menninga on 2010-07-22
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Christina Herrström's book Tusen gånger starkare will hit the big screen in September.

On September 24, the latest Swedish book-to-movie will have its premiere when Christina Herrström's young adult novel Tusen gånger starkare (A thousand times stronger) makes it to movie theaters around Sweden.