The Beautiful Flying Whale and the Tale of the Little Galaxy (1999)

The Beautiful Flying Whale and the Tale of the Little Galaxy recounts adventures of the beautiful flying whale, familiar to many readers from Olafur Gunnarsson‘s previous book, The Beautiful Flying Whale (1989), which was nominated for The Nordic Children‘s Literature Award in 1990 and sold to Denmark, the Faeroe Islands, Finland, Norway and Sweden.

The story tells of the flying whale that flies up every evening from his home in Whale Fjord, to see how the children are getting along. He visits the siblings Steinn and Rosa when they cannot get to sleep one evening, and tells them the story of how people came to have hair on their heads. This delightful tale is ideal for children aged 3 to 7.

Illustrations by Halla Solveig Thorgeirsdottir