Mabel Merryweather and the Miniature Pirates

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Rights sold:

WORLD ENGLISH: HarperCollins

CROATIA: Planetopia
ESTONIA: Rahva Raamat
FINLAND: Gummerus
FRANCE: Editions Leduc.s

Original title: Salmanterin Terttu ja minimerirosvot

Author: Noora Kunnas

Illustrator: Noora Kunnas

Published: 2019

Publisher: Otava

Class/genre: Middle-Grade

Pages: 140

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Nick and Lilly’s visit to their rule-loving, child-hating uncle turns into an adventure as the children get to know their exiting, eccentric neighbor: Mabel Merryweather. Mabel and her friends are preparing for a flower arrangement competition, when the town is hit by a jeweler thief. Nick, Lilly and Mabel have their own problems as Mabel’s decorative miniature pirates have come to live and are rummaging through the backyards. And what happened to the main judge of the competition – a pop singer Monika who disappeared in the same day? Something must be done to bring peace and order back to the town of Dalton.

Black-and-white illustrations by Teemu Juhani

Rights sold:

FINLAND: Otava (orig.)
DENMARK: ABC Forlag
GERMANY: Mixtvision Verlag
HUNGARY: Pagony

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Mabel Merryweather and the Miniature Pirates is a vibrant, cheerful and lighthearted from the beginning to the end. It is an adventure novel, but with new fresh elements like a singing rooster and mini-pirates. Not only has it an exciting story, it also has a very good message – the elderly people are not depicted as passive and helpless but on the contrary: the grannies and the children solve problems together!

– Hanna Győri, editor, Pozsonyi Pagony Kft. Hungary

Mabel Merryweather and the Miniature Pirates has absurd plot twists but moves on at comfortable pace. Small children might not get every joke, but that’s no problem. Plot is suitable for everyone from early-reader to someone who already enjoys 700-page fantasy novels – the humor makes it very lovable. The brilliant illustrations bring the characters and events of the book alive.

-LueLue Viidakkoponi blog on Mabel Merryweather and the Miniature Pirates

From early readers to adventure lovers, Mabel Merryweather and the Miniature Pirates is a great book for everyone! It can be read by the child on their own, or as a bedtime story with parents (as we did). The chapters are nicely short and the pacing is great.

– Kirjavinkit blog on Mabel Merryweather and the Miniature Pirates

Noora Kunnas

Noora Kunnas (born in 1987) is a children’s author from Helsinki, Finland. She has the knack for making both children and grownups laugh while they’re immersed in her zany books. She loves animals and British humor – she grew up watching Jeeves and Wooster and eating ice cream straight from the container. Kunnas draws her inspiration from the world of Roald Dahl. The trademark of her books is a nutty humor, spiced with quirky characters, as well as the titillating mood of various settings, where anything – and we mean anything – is possible.

Noora Kunnas has published six children’s books at Otava (2015 – 2020), and her works have been nominated for the prestigious Tiiliskivi and Lukuvarkaus literary prizes in Finland. She graduated from the Turku Academy of Arts with a degree in film, and she worked in television since.

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Bibliography

Noora Kunnas

Mabel Merryweather and the King of Thieves

2020, Middle-Grade