Trapped on the Fjord

In collaboration with Jens Kristensen, illustrator

Ruth Lillegraven

Original title: Fanga på fjorden
Publisher: Samlaget, 2021
Genre: Detective series for children, 6- 9 years
Pages: 80 pages

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The Planet Rescue Club is out on a boat trip when they discover illegal lobster traps in a cove. Who is poaching lobster in the sea? And isn’t there something mysterious about the new boss of the village fishery?

Trapped on the Fjord (Fanga på fjorden) is the third book in the environmental thriller series for children (ages 6–9) about The Planet Rescue Club. Written by Ruth Lillegraven and illustrated by Jens Kristensen, the book also has a bonus section containing facts about the environment written by the journalist Ole Mathismoen.

The members of the Planet Rescue Club are Vanja, Sivert and Mo. They live in a small village in Western Norway. But even in a small, out of the way place, mysterious things can happen. Join the three friends as they hunt down environmental villains.

The first two books in the series, The Black Swans and The Cabin that Disappeared, were published in the spring of 2020.

Foreign rights

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”.