WHAT IS A ROBOT and MINI SCIENCE 3 sold to Turkey!

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We are thrilled to announce two new children’s deals today! The nonfiction titles WHAT IS A ROBOT? and MINI SCIENCE 3: THE TRAVELING PLANTS have been sold to the publisher Yapi Kredi. Both deals were closed by Elsa Lindström at Elina Ahlback Literary Agency.

This is the third territory for WHAT IS A ROBOT, while the MINI SCIENCE series have been sold to 5 territories so far! Rights for both titles are still available in eg. Germany, Denmark, Poland, France, Italy and Japan. 

 

WHAT IS A ROBOT?

Laura Ertimo, illustrated by Aapo Ravantti

The fact-packed title with delightful art is guaranteed to teach something new to the reader! 

Friends Ro and Bot take a look at where one might bump into robots both now and in the future in this entertaining illustrated book. What do robots and humans have in common, and how do they differ?  Do robots think, can they have a crush on someone or even get mad?
Everything becomes clear in this amazing book by award-winning, bestselling children’s non-fiction author Laura Ertimo.

Download the full English PDF for WHAT IS A ROBOT here!

 

MINI SCIENCE 3: THE TRAVELING PLANTS

Laura Ertimo, illustrated by Sanna Pelliccioni

In the third title of the Mini Science series, our adventurer Plop ponders a tricky question: if rooted to the ground, how can one travel?

Plants are the foundation of the Earth’s living network. But they are not here just for animals and humans – plants have their own mysterious life, which in the end is not so different from ours. They grow, reproduce and send off their offspring, and indeed, even travel around the world. THE TRAVELLING PLANTS shows how all of us are interconnected and need each other throughout life.

MINI SCIENCE 1: WHERE ARE YOU

Laura Ertimo, illustrated by Sanna Pelliccioni

Mini Science is a new nonfiction series for the smallest in the family. The series will tackle big science questions with lovely illustrations, and encourages kids to wonder and ask questions.

In Where Are You? we follow Plop, a little creature who guides us through space to the Earth and from there to the human DNA and finally to the world of atoms. Zooming in all the way from the enormities of space to the minisculness of atoms, we learn a great deal in between.

MINI SCIENCE 2: INVISIBLE WORLD

Laura Ertimo, illustrated by Sanna Pelliccioni

In the second title of Mini Science series, the adorable Plop will discover the things one cannot see: electricity, garden in the fog, darkness, micro-organisms and other invisible things.

When Plop will get sick, he will learn about bacteria and viruses and how to avoid them. Vaccinations can seem scary, but they keep us healthy! Sometimes it’s better to stay home, even if this makes you bored, so that soon you could go discovering the Dark Side of The Moon!

 

Download the full English PDFs for MINI SCIENCE here!

WHAT IS A ROBOT

Orig. Mikä on robotti
WSOY 2022, 61 pp

Rights sold:
FINLAND: WSOY (orig.)
ESTONIA: Kirjastus Avita
TURKEY: Yapi Kredi

 

 

MINI SCIENCE 3: THE TRAVELING PLANTS

Orig. Pikkutieto – Kiivetään puuhun
Karisto 2022, 40 pp.

Rights sold:
FINLAND: Karisto (orig.)
ARABIC: Sefsafa Publishing
TURKEY: Yapi Kredi

MINI SCIENCE 1: WHERE ARE YOU

Orig. Pikkutieto – Missä sinä olet
Minerva 2020, 31pp.

Rights sold:
FINLAND: Minerva (orig.)
ARABIC: Sefsafa Publishing
ESTONIA: Avita
GREECE: Klidarithmos
TURKEY: Yapi Kredi

MINI SCIENCE 2: INVISIBLE WORLD 

Orig. Pikkutieto – Mennään piiloon
Minerva 2021, 40pp.

Rights sold:
FINLAND: Karisto (orig.)
ARABIC: Sefsafa Publishing
ESTONIA: Avita
TURKEY: Yapi Kredi

About author


Aapo Ravantti

Aapo Ravantti is a multi-talented artist from Lahti. In addition to illustrations for children’s books, he also works as a sound technician and musician. Ravantti’s educational background is in  visual art and music technology.

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Laura Ertimo

Laura Ertimo is a geographer and author. She has previously worked in publishing of geography-related non-fiction and maps, and now she writes full time, specializing in children’s non-fiction. A recurring theme in her work is the holistic worldview, the interaction between phenomena, people and nature.

In 2020, she received the prestigious Tietopöllö Award for her work as a Non-Fiction writer. Her children's title WHERE DID THE ANIMALS GO, illustrated by Mari Ahokoivu, was nominated for the 2021 Finlandia Award and has also won the Tieto-Lauri award!

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Sanna Pelliccioni

Sanna Pelliccioni is a Finnish illustrator, graphic designer and children’s author living in Helsinki with her Finnish-Italian family. An awarded illustrator, Pelliccioni has been e.g. honoured with being the only Finn named on the IBBY honour list 2022. Pelliccioni utilizes many different techniques in her illustrations, some of her favourites are collage and mixed techniques. She studied Arts and Illustration in Bologna and Macerata, Italy, and Graphic Design at the Pekka Halonen Institute in Finland.

She loves illustrating picture books and poems and making graphic design for book covers and her own books. She also writes for children and young people and concerning the themes of books she’s especially interested in equality, indigenous people, myths and taboos, forest and nature. Pelliccioni is mostly known for her Onni-poika picture book series which started in 2007 and contains 15 books so far.

​Pelliccioni collaborates with authors writing for children and young people and works with many Finnish editors. Some of her books have been translated to Chinese, Korean, Arabic, English and Swedish, Turkish and Estonian.

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