Ava & CoccoThe Magical Globe
Ava is ten, and asks questions until someone answers them.
Too brave to be scared off, too stubborn to give up.
Bad news for any villain.
Cocco is her stuffed rabbit: strong opinions, no self-awareness, cunning in a way that works about half the time, and cheeky enough to take the credit every time.
A magical globe opens up the world to them. From a quiet bedroom in Norway, it carries them to colourful bazaars and perilous jungles, to strange cultures and even stranger people. In the wrong hands, the globe could bring disaster upon humanity. In the right ones, it could make the world a little better, one journey at a time.
Mysteries, unsolved riddles and challenges that call for courage and wits, and now and then sheer luck. The world quite literally lies at their feet.
Apart they are hopeless. Together they are unstoppable.
Every country tells the same story from a new angle: that people everywhere want the same things, and go about them in wonderfully different ways. The child meets culture and history from the inside. Not as facts about a place, but as things people do because they make sense there. Along the way, vocabulary gets stretched, because the stretch is where there’s room for something new. And the screen is used to solve things, not to scroll past them. Nobody notices they’ve learned anything until they already know it.
Let’s explore the world.
The books
Prose that stretches vocabulary, beyond the mother tongue too, because several languages are spoken in every book. Tasks that make the reader part of the story rather than a spectator. Every book is one country, told from the inside.
Read moreThe app
Everything Ava and Cocco use to solve the mysteries, from the encyclopedia and translator to the map and camera, and everything the reader needs to follow them.
Read moreGames & challenges
Tasks, crosswords and games in the app and here on the site. Not a geography lesson, but children come away with a world that feels like their own.
Read moreIndia
Fully written: fourteen chapters. Illustration is under way, the app is in development, and an English translation has begun. The series continues, one country at a time.
Publishers, illustrators & enquiries
mail@avaandcocco.com