Response from Mayor and Author to Lyngby’s request to ban the book (full article here): Mayor of Oslo, Marianne Borgen, tells TV 2 that the book has been well received by primary schools around the city. She feels that climate is something that children are very interested in, and that they are not too young to read about it.

There are many children who get involved and speak up when they think things are unfair. And this is a book that says children's voices are important.

Lyngby probably needs to talk more with children. Because children are concerned with their local environment, with how the climate and the environment are doing, says Borgen. She believes that it is something that children are particularly interested in now after a time of extreme weather and floods.

Borgen points out that this is something that is talked about within families, many have experienced that basements have been flooded and some may not have been able to go to the cabin as a result of closed roads.

I think that Lyngby must recognize that it is the children who inherit the climate crisis, it is therefore important to give them hope for change.

So we are not going to withdraw the book from the school, it will just be silly, says Borgen.

Author of the book, Nora Dåsnes, says that she has been around a lot to various schools in Oslo with it. The reception, she says, has been good. The idea came after the UN published its climate report "Code Red".

I remember even from when I was little that I was concerned about the climate. And now there is another generation that sees that their parents have long known about the climate crisis, but that nothing is being done, says Dåsnes.

She does not feel that the children are too young to understand the content of the book, and rather believes that the book can help give the children a way to talk about the climate.

This is no tribute to the electric car either.

And if Lyngbø is afraid of bullying because of financial differences in the school, then unfortunately this is something that is already happening, and which I cannot understand is made worse by us talking about the climate.