The Ice Sea Pirates

Frida Nilsson

“Whitehead has captured my sister! We have to go get her back!”

But no one moved. They looked away, stared down into their glasses, started mumbling to each other, and soon someone said: “Siri, your sister is gone. That’s what happens to those Whitehead captures. They…no longer exist.”

The feared pirate Whitehead abducts children and makes them work in a mine all day, digging  for diamonds. No one even dares to search for the lost children. But the day he captures Siri’s little sister Miki, he makes himself an enemy he never could have imagined. Siri goes looking for Whitehead’s island. Because she knows how scared Miki must be, in the hands of the pirate, in the mine’s dark ducts, all alone.

The August Prize jury described the book: “In regions far away there are islands, oceans, ice. There, the sisters Siri and Miki live, but also Whitehead, the pirate who abducts children. When he kidnaps Miki, Siri has to do what no one else has the courage to – go after him. With a strong pathos for the little human being, Frida Nilsson creates a winding adventure. The language is rich and full. The cold bites and the sea lashes in this story that shows us that both the good and the bad that we do leave traces. You have to choose wisely. And one who doesn’t listen to their conscience will fail.”

Books by Frida Nilsson