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Skólastjórinn
Salvar, 12 ára vandræðagemsi, sótti um stöðu skólastjóra því honum fannst það fyndið. En fyrir mistök fær hann starfið. Hann mætir til leiks vopnaður ferskum hugmyndum um hvernig megi gera skólann betri. (Pítsa og kandífloss í hádegismat! Blundtími! Grís í hvern bekk!) Hvað er það versta sem gæti gerst? Sprenghlægileg og hjartnæm verðlaunabók.
313 pages, Hardcover
Published October 1, 2025
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Ævar Þór Benediktsson
40 books61 followersSince 2014, Ævar has been one of the most popular authors in Iceland. He has won several awards for his work, including the Icelandic Children's Book Awards, The Bookseller's Awards and a special award, by the Ministry of culture and education, in recognition of his contribution to work on the Icelandic language.
He was nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize for Children and YA Books in 2016 (for The Robot Attack) and in 2017 (for Your Very Own Fairy Tale) and was finalist and first International Selection of the DeBary Outstanding Children’s Book Awards 2016 (for Dinosaurs in Reykjavik). In 2017 Ævar was chosen as one of the Aarhus39 - a collection of the 39 best emerging writers for young people from across Europe. On top of that he has won four Edda-awards for his TV-show, Ævar the Scientist.
In 2015, 2016 and 2017 Ævar launched annual nation-wide reading challenges for every child in Iceland between the ages of 5-13. At the end of each challenge five participants are randomly selected and as a reward get to be characters in the book series "The Young Adventures of Ævar the Scientist". Over 177 thousand books were read in the three challenges. In October of 2017 he was nominated for the ALMA (The Astrid Lindgren Memorial) award , as a "Promoter of reading".
He currently lives in Reykjavík, Iceland, with his fiancé and cat (not the same person, though).
He was nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize for Children and YA Books in 2016 (for The Robot Attack) and in 2017 (for Your Very Own Fairy Tale) and was finalist and first International Selection of the DeBary Outstanding Children’s Book Awards 2016 (for Dinosaurs in Reykjavik). In 2017 Ævar was chosen as one of the Aarhus39 - a collection of the 39 best emerging writers for young people from across Europe. On top of that he has won four Edda-awards for his TV-show, Ævar the Scientist.
In 2015, 2016 and 2017 Ævar launched annual nation-wide reading challenges for every child in Iceland between the ages of 5-13. At the end of each challenge five participants are randomly selected and as a reward get to be characters in the book series "The Young Adventures of Ævar the Scientist". Over 177 thousand books were read in the three challenges. In October of 2017 he was nominated for the ALMA (The Astrid Lindgren Memorial) award , as a "Promoter of reading".
He currently lives in Reykjavík, Iceland, with his fiancé and cat (not the same person, though).
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January 14, 2026
Þessi bók er mjög vel skrifuð, fékk mig til að tárast nokkrum sinnum. Það er samt undarleg að vera að lesa bók ætluðum börnum og unglingum og maður heldur með fullorðna fólkinu í bókinni. Góður lestur fyrir bæði ungna sem aldna og hún rr fljótlesin.
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