To blå hus

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To blå hus is a very original picture book. Two blue houses live in the far north at the foot of a mountain. They are neighbours and good friends, and one of the houses often repeats what the other one says, just like good friends do.

Sometimes the houses have visitors. Early one morning, nine socks come walking past. ‘Where are you going?’ says one house. ‘Yes, where are you going?’ says the other. ‘We are going to have a sixty metre race with some woollen socks from the neighbouring village,’ answers one of the socks… The houses are asked if they would like to come along, but they politely turn down the offer. Not long afterwards, they are visited by eight balloons, a little later by two old chairs and so it goes on throughout the story. And what the guests get up to is completely unbelievable.

This text is bubbling with imagination and joyful storytelling, and readers can delight in all the unexpected things that happen. The book can be readily used as a counting book too, but the numbers do not come in sequence and there is no strict order as we are used to seeing in such books.

“Amusing, playful and surprising… numerous children’s and picture books feature personified objects, but not many possess the same wily warmth as those to be found in Ella Okstad’s To blå hus.”
Aftenposten

‘A charming picture book about two blue houses eager for company… crying out for a sequel… Ella Okstad’s colourful illustrations lift the book…’
Dagbladet

‘The text positively fizzes with the narrator’s sense of fantasy and joy, and the reader is invited to share in every unexpected guest that knocks at the door – socks, pencils, balloons, the lot.’
Foreldre & Barn