Ulla and Bendik Build a Town

Here comes a new teeming and super-detailed picture book universe from the creator of Block.

Bendik used to live in New York, a city that has everything! But now Bendik has moved. To a drab suburb. Ulla has lived here all her life. She finds it restricted and grey and flat and square. Ulla meets Bendik in the playground. None of them can fathom why this place is so dull. So they decide to do something about it.

In Åshild Kanstad Johnsen’s universe “minor beings” are given the power to accomplish great deeds. A small piece of wood creates its own museum, and in Ulla and Bendik Build a Town a couple of children are allowed to voice their thoughts on how an ideal town ought to be. And what a town it turns out to be!

Rights sold to: De Vier Windstreken, The Netherlands