The Roselil series
Book 1: Roselil and her friends, Mallings 1995/Sesam 2006 Link to Roselil website (Danish)
Book 2: Roselil and the Flower War, Mallings 1996/Sesam 2006
Book 3: Roselil and the Little Dragon, Mallings 1997/Sesam 2006
Easy Readers:
Roselil and the Dark Shadow, Alrune 2006
Roselil goes to a party, Alrune 2006
Extract from Roselil and her friends
Extract from Roselil and the Flower War
Extract from Roselil and the Little Dragon
Extract from Roselil and the Dark Shadow
Extract from Roselil goes to a party
Author's comments
Roselil and her friends: The flower fairy Roselil lives together with her friend Silkie Butterfly in Summerland, where they take care of the flowers and play together every day. |
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Roselil and the Flower War: One day winter comes to Summerland and when the sun returns, the old fairy queen is dead. A new one has to be chosen, but when the election starts, they're are suddenly two candidates. |
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Roselil and the Little Dragon: The preparations for Summerland's big sun and moon festival are in full swing, but are disturbed when a fire-breathing dragon from the Murky Mountains suddenly takes up residence in the festival square. What does a dragon want here? And how can they get it to leave again? |
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Sesam 2006
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Sesam 2006
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Sesam 2006
One lovely evening, just three days before the big festival, Roselil and Silkie were about to go to bed. It was a dark, moonless night, because the festival was always held on the third new moon after the turn of the year. Roselil and Silkie had just got themselves comfortable in their flowerbeds, when Mrs Mouse and Frida came with their evening drink of warm rosewater and honey. Roselil asked Frida eagerly, "What are you going to wear to the Sun and Moon Party?" "Well, I've sewn a completely new dress. It's yellow with white flowers and …." Suddenly, they all looked up at the sky. Far away over the Murky Mountains, a strange, red gleam of light shone in the dark night sky. "What's that?" asked a frightened Roselil. Everyone knew that nothing good ever came from the Murky Mountains. Mrs Mouse clapped her hands over her eyes, but Frida, who always knew everything, replied eagerly, "That is something the old ones called 'The Dance of the Dragons'. I heard a story when I was little …." Mrs Mouse interrupted her. "Now let's not say anymore about that. Come along Frida!" Mrs Mouse hurried to arrange the flower quilts over Roselil's and Silkie's beds. She hurried Frida and was soon ready to go back down. Silkie and Roselil looked at each other. They would love to know more about the odd light and they were sure that Frida still had much more to tell. Silkie said quickly, "Oh, Frida, couldn't you just help me a little with my pillow?" Frida well understood what Silkie and Roselil were up to and said, "Of course! You go down, mother-in-law. I'll just sort out the pillow, then I'll follow." Mrs Mouse hesitated a moment, sighed and went down. Frida began to tell the tale. "Now then, I heard it from my father, who heard it from his old aunt. The dragons in the Murky Mountains sleep most of the time, but on rare occasions, they wake up and dance and spit fire." Out of curiosity, Silkie asked, "Is there anyone here in Summerland who has ever seen a dragon?" Frida nodded eagerly. "Yes, the ancient spider who lives in the darkest part of the Flowerpark - she has seen everything!" "Is she the one who weaves the magic web that fairy wings are made of?" asked Roselil carefully. |
Again Frida nodded. |
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Alrune 2002 (Easy Reader)
It's morning. The sun shines down on the large rose. Inside it lives a little fairy. Her name is Roselil. Every morning, she opens all her roses with a kiss. When the sun sets, they have to be gently closed again. She's sleeping but is soon woken by the golden sunlight. She gently touches the rose's petals. It opens and she sits up. By her side in the rose lies Silkie. She is Roselil's best friend. When Silkie wakes up, she says, "My goodness, how hungry I am!" |
wings are closed tight together. She doesn't want to get soil on them. Mrs Mouse sobs loudly. Mr Mouse stands beside her. He is sad. |
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Alrune 2002 (Easy Reader)
It's midday. The sun is high in the sky. Silkie Butterfly is bored. |
She spots Silkie. She strikes out at the blue butterfly with her rake. Roselil screams. The rake hits Silkie. One of the many sharp prongs rips her wings apart. She tumbles to the earth. |
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In 1989 I gave birth to a daughter and in 1991 a son. My two children have since had a big influence on what and how I write. When my daughter was about five, she was totally wild about elves, fairies, elf maids, mermaids, witches and trolls, but there weren't such a large number of books with that type of story at that time. So she and I agreed that we would have to produce some ourselves. My daughter created all the characters and their names and she was part of the whole process of writing the story of the rose fairy Rosa Spinosissima and her friends in Summerland. The illustrator, Mai-Britt Schultz, who has drawn the wonderful illustrations in the first editions of the books, showed the tolerance of an angel because all the sketches of the characters had to have my daughter's approval before they came through the eye of the needle. |
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