The Cottage that Disappeared

Ruth Lillegraven

Original title: Klodeklubben. Hytta som forsvann
Publisher: Samlaget, 2020
Genre: Detective series for children, 6- 9 years
Pages: 94 pages

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The Planet Rescue Club is an ambitious suspense series about the environment and climate change for children (6–9 years).
Illustrations by Jens Kristensen.

The plot takes place on the farm where Vanja lives. One day, after the animals, have been let out to graze they fall ill and Vanja and Sivert’s cottage in the forest where they usually play, is demolished and the refuse littered throughout the countryside. Who is tearing down the cottage and building new? And who is dumping the waste that is hurting the animals?

The Cottage that Disappeared is the second volume in the detective series, each with factsheets included.

Foreign rights

Danish: Turbine
Faroese: Bókadeild Føroya Lærarfelags
Polish: Wydawnictwo Widnokrąg
Swedish: Bokförlaget Hedvig

Awards

Jens Kristensen is the winner of the Norwegian Cultural Ministry Prize 2020 for best illustrations for the first two books in The Planet Rescue Club

Ruth Lillegraven

Ruth Lillegraven debuted in 2005 with a collection of poetry entitled Big Bad Poems. Since then, she has published a novel, six poetry collections as well as children books. Her work has been nominated for several prizes and she was awarded, among other distinctions, The Brage Prize and Nynorsk Literature Prize. Her first psychological crime thriller, Everything is Mine (Alt er mitt), is the first in a series, with huge sucess and multiple international sales, as well as film rights sold to Nordisk film. Blood Ties is the second volume in the “Clara – series”.