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19 Autumn 2020 The Expedition on Ice Ida, Max and
Jock’s adventure begins when one day in early spring they go down to the water creek to fish and they step out onto the frozen sea. Suddenly the ice cracks and the three friends begin to drift away on an ice floe, out across the dark water, out to sea, where there are only more ice floes and water as far as the eye can see. Travelling across the icy ocean they reach a foreign shore where they spend the whole winter cooped up in a small hut while a snowstorm rages outside. Luckily there is tinned food. Eventually spring arrives and so do the penguins. Thomas and Anna-Clara Tidholm have been fascinated by classic polar expeditions for a long time, which is how they got the idea for this book. This outstanding husband and wife team have created a string of wonderful, awardwinning books for children since the early 1980s. Including titles such as the Ture series, Resan till ugri-la-brek (which was awarded the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis), Förritiden i skogen, Åke-boken and many more. Thomas and Anna-Clara Tidholm The jury: The great adventure is waiting just beyond the everyday. A shrewd voyage of discovery to a land of ice. Picturebook, 6–9 years, 32 p. Thomas Tidholm, Anna-Clara Tidholm (ill.) Publisher Alfabeta Rights Alfabeta AnnaKaisa Danielsson annakaisa@alfabeta.se Photo: Alfabeta Photo: Linda Gren