Illustration

  THORARINN LEIFSSON : WRITER AND ILLUSTRATOR

Books

Grandmother’s Library (October 2009)

Albertina lives in a peculiar world. There are no books and the special educational machines in school only teach about loan interests rates.
The Internet has been prohibited for years and the Gold Bank has gained control of most of the world. Finally grownups start to disappear one by one.
That's when Grandmother Huld turns up with an enormous library of books and dangerous knowledge. From now on nothing stays the same.


> Grandmother's Library web site
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Father’s Big Secret (2007)

Father’s Big Secret is a unusual crime thriller for kids aged 9-14. The story evolves around a bizarre family somewhere in suburbia. At the centre is the father, Robert Bodvar, alias Bobo, who is unemployed and a cannibal. His wife is a overworked phone saleswoman who works from home. They have two children, Sidda and Hakon - who tells the story. The kid’s do their best to keep their fathers big secret unknown to the rest of the world and Police detective Vincent Nicole who is getting dangerously close to solving the case.
The book got excellent reviews and was sold to Germany, Denmark and Finland.

> Father's Big Secret web site
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Little Doris Ghost Story (2008)


Book for kids with reading disabilities. Commissioned by educational institution.



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Total Freedom (2001)


Written with wife Audur Jonsdottir. The book got excellent reviews from the press and was voted second best children book of the year by the Icelandic book sellers.