2000 copies of the books Do you think daddy cries? and Heaven behind the house will be distributed free of charge.

Copies published as a part of the project Promotion of Norwegian children’s literature in Poland and partially funded by the Financial Mechanism EOG will be distributed among regional libraries, psychologists conducting support meetings for mourners and our Norwegian partner thanks to whom Polish families living in Norway will have access to the books.

Do you think daddy cries? by: Hilde Ringen Kommedal
Illustrations: Tone K.Lileng
Translation from Norwegian: Monika Samsel - Chojnacka
Publisher: FISO, ISBN: 978-83-927231-0-3

The book is about a five-year-old boy going through the process of mourning. The book was written by his mother with the intention of supporting other children and parents in the difficult life situations.

Hilde Ringen Kommedal (born 1976) has a degree in sociology . The book Do you think daddy cries? is her writing debut.
The author's husband died of cancer leaving her with two small children. After her husband's death she started writing a diary where she could express her feelings. She also underwent therapy for people in grief and she learned that nobody is too young to mourn. Being aware that there is too few publications concerning that particular topic, she decided to write a story about losing her husband and the father of her children. She hopes that this book might help other families to cope with grief. It might serve as an introduction to adults’ conversation with children about death.

Heaven behind the house by: Gaute Heivoll
Illustrations: Oyvind Lauvdahl
Translation from Norwegian: Milena Skoczko
Publisher: FISO, ISBN: 978-83-927231-1-0

A warm, moving story about death and a grieving child.

Jon's mother is dead, yet every night when Jon goes to sleep she comes to say goodnight. One evening she doesn't come. Jon is scared and can't sleep and so his father comes up with a clever idea. He ties a red thread around his own big toe and gives the other end to the boy so that when Jon gets frightened all he has to do is pull the thread. Later that night Jon suddenly wakes up. He carefully pulls the string...


 

Gaute Heivoll (born 1978) is an educated writer (2001-2002); he also studied law and psychology at the University in Bergen. In 2002 he made his début with a storybook Little dancing boy. Thanks to his first novel Omar’s last days published in 2003, he was promoted by Lars Christensen as a writer of the meaningful word in the contemporary literature. Gaute Heivoll writes also short stories, poems and essays for newspapers and literary magazines. He participated in writing courses for both adults and teenagers in Norway and France, and he also worked as a literary critic for daily press. His books were translated to German, Italian, English and Spanish after the European project Literary Festival Scritture Giovanni in 2006 where he was a representative of Norway.

Supported by a grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway trough the EEA Financial Mechanism and the Norwegian Financial Mechanism.