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Bárður Oskarsson is a beloved artist and children’s book author from the Faroe Islands. He is known for his unique art style, which often depicts offbeat anthropomorphized animals with fine-point lines and fantastical sizing and shapes. His books have been translated into French, German, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Czech, and English. His debut children’s book Ein hundur, ein ketta og ein mús (A Dog, a Cat, and a Mouse) won the West Nordic Council’s Children and Young People’s Literature Prize in 2006, which he went on to win again in 2018. In 2016, he was nominated for the IBBY Peter Pan prize. Translator Bio: Marita Thomsen is a Faroese translator and interpreter. She studied translation in Peru and interpreting in London. Her translations include Faroese, Danish, and Spanish works by Beinir Bergsson, Sólrún Michelsen, Búi Dam, and the children's books of Bárður Oskarsson. In 2024, she won the Petrona Award for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel for her translation of Dead Men Walking by Jógvan Isaksen (Norvik Press, 2023).
""Everyone’s favorite Scandinavian author/illustrator is back . . . In spite of its seemingly simplicity, this book is both extremely funny and subtle. It has this angle into the absurdity of human existence that children respond to . . . Utterly unique."" — Betsy Bird, School Library Journal's Fuse 8 Blog
