Jostein Gaarder

Joachim opens the 24 doors of a magic Advent calendar and pieces together the story of a little girl taken on a journey from Norway to Bethlehem through 2,000 years of history.

Joe can't believe it when he finds Mika, an alien who fell out of his spaceship, in the apple tree in his garden. After finding out as much as they can about each other Mika vanishes but Joe meets someone else as curious about the world as Mika, his new baby brother.

Petter, a precocious child and fantasist grows up to be a storyteller of disturbing mischief. He makes his living selling stories and ideas to professional writers, but eventually finds himself in a trap of his own making.

A boy and his father are travelling from Norway to Greece in search of the boy's mother. Along the way the boy meets a dwarf who leads him into a fascinating adventure.

One day Sophie comes home from school to find two questions in her mailbox: Who are you? and Where does the world come from? This is the start of her adventure in philosophy; but this is not the only mystery - who is Hilde, and why do her possessions appear among Sophie's?