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The island of Sommarøy in Norway has a very different kind of summer.

While in the UK, sunshine days are very welcome for most people, these Norwegian islanders live with 69 days of continuous sunshine each year!

With no night-time, the 300 people living on the island choose to work, play, mow the lawn and paint houses at any time of day they want.

Now, they're campaigning to be declared world's first time-free zone.

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This would mean that they will have more freedom to live as they choose, without the need for a strict bedtime!

On 13 June, members of the town's council met with a Norwegian minister to discuss how they could become officially 'time-free'.

As visitors enter the island, they travel over a bridge covered in watches.

It is there as a reminder that when tourists enter the island, they leave time behind.
Does this sound like your idea of heaven? What would you do if you had 69 days of sun and no sunsets? Let us know your ideas in the comments below!

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Norwegian island Sommaroy wants to get rid of time - CBBC Newsround

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The island of Sommarøy in Norway has a very different kind of summer. While in the UK, sunshine days are very welcome for most people, these Norwegian islanders live with 69 days of continuous sunshine each year!

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toys talking
particular books, 2016
42 pages

"This is an extraordinary book - remarkable, but also odd. Each two-page spread depicts a toy animal, illustrated in broad brushstrokes, with an accompanying caption. So far, so normal. Yet the muted colours of the board-paper are reflected in the lonely, melancholy air each animal exudes and the tone of the captions, which are riddled with insecurity and sadness. A stuffed rabbit claims, "I have often had sleepless nights". A kangaroo, joey in pouch, baldly states, "We can not afford it". A panda looks depressed, declaring "All my evenings are engaged". Some small children may recoil from the gloom that hangs over the book. Others may respond positively, taking comfort from seeing their own anxieties given a voice and a relatively friendly face." - James Lovegrove, The Financial Times

Leanne Shapton explores the inner life of children's toys. Designed to appeal to the very youngest readers, penguins, panda bears, stuffed dogs, and cuddly cats reflect on jokes, consider the weather, and long for tomorrow to come.

"I love it completely. Toys Talking is the only book which both I and my eleven-month-old daughter agree is a masterpiece - she thinks it is a delightful series of candy-colored toy portraits; I think it is unbearably poignant. A children's book for adults, or an adult book for children! Nothing else I know of more accurately describes the strange mêlée of feelings that we call, for convenience, a family." - Adam Thirlwell

"This is a book created out of the rich emotional landscape of parenthood... Toys Talking is that category of book you'll read aged three, that betrays deeper layers when you reread it aged 20. It possesses a knowing humour which, years later and all grown-up, will finally make you laugh out loud." - Oh Comely

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"This is an extraordinary book - remarkable, but also odd. Each two-page spread depicts a toy animal, illustrated in broad brushstrokes, with an accompanying caption. So far, so normal. Yet the muted colours of the board-paper are reflected in the lonely, melancholy air each animal exudes and the tone of the captions, which are riddled with insecurity and sadness.

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important artifacts...
Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009
144 pages

Auction catalogs can tell you a lot about a person - their passions and vanities, peccadilloes and aesthetics; their flush years and lean. In Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry, the 325 lots up for auction are what remain from the relationship between Lenore and Harold. Through photographs of the couple's personal effects - the usual auction items (jewelry, fine art, and rare furniture) and the seemingly worthless (pajamas, Post-it notes, worn paperbacks) - the story of a failed love affair emerges. From first meeting to final separation, the progress and rituals of intimacy are revealed through the couple's accumulated relics and memorabilia. And a love story, in all its tenderness and struggle, emerges from the evidence that has been left behind.

"Leanne Shapton has accomplished a small victory in the age-old artistic struggle to do something unprecedented. Her intriguing new novel - if you can call it that - charts the rise and fall of a relationship, not through wordy descriptions or even graphic-novel drawings, but rather via a convincingly realistic auction catalog. The reader, cast in the unfamiliar role of consumer/detective, is put to gathering information about a failed romance between the two New York protagonists, with nothing to go on but photos and brief descriptions of their belongings." - Time Out New York

"A captivating and completely sui generis creation" - T he New York Times

"[Shapton has] simultaneously invented a form - a sort of fiction-as-still-life - and probably broken the mold on it." - Time Out Chicago

"And so let's just get it out of the way here and now, before things get complicated by other releases: the book of the year for 2009 is Leanne Shapton's Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry. Yes, yes, I know: there are great books coming this year... but please believe me - no other book will come close to this one. Not even remotely close." - Corduroy Books

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Auction catalogs can tell you a lot about a person - their passions and vanities, peccadilloes and aesthetics; their flush years and lean. In Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry, the 325 lots up for auction are what remain from the relationship between Lenore and Harold.

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Olivia Twist is a London based Illustrator, Arts facilitator and Lecturer who graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Visual Communication. Never not watching. © Olivia Mathurin-Essandoh All rights reserved

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A story for #11 of your favourite comics anthology, Decadence

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Cat Sims' design and illustration portfolio.

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Maira Kalman, with wit and great sensitivity, reveals why dogs bring out the best in us
Maira Kalman + Dogs = Bliss

Dogs have lessons for us all. In Beloved Dog, renowned artist and author Maira Kalman illuminates our cherished companions as only she can. From the dogs lovingly illustrated in her acclaimed children's books to the real-life pets who inspire her still, Kalman's Beloved Dog is joyful, beautifully illustrated, and, as always, deeply philosophical.

Here is Max Stravinsky, the dog poet of Oh-La-La (Max in Love)-fame, and her own Irish Wheaton Pete (almost named Einstein, until he revealed himself to be "clearly no Einstein"), who also made an appearance in the delightful What Pete Ate: From A to Z. And of course, there is Boganch, Kalman's in-laws' "big black slobbering Hungarian Beast." And that's just the beginning.

With humor and intelligence, Kalman gives voice to the dogs she adores, noting that they are constant reminders that life reveals the best of itself when we live fully in the moment and extend unconditional love.

"And it is very true," she writes, "that the most tender, complicated, most generous part of our being blossoms without any effort, when it comes to the love of a dog."

Purchase a copy of this book at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Powell's, BAM, Hudson Booksellers, IndieBound, and Walmart.

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Maira Kalman, with wit and great sensitivity, reveals why dogs bring out the best in us Maira Kalman + Dogs = Bliss Dogs have lessons for us all. In Beloved Dog, renowned artist and author Maira Kalman illuminates our cherished companions as only she can.

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