Rosemary 4: The Frosty Sorbet Race

By Miina Supinen Miina Supinen & Anni Nykänen

The Cooking Club and kitchen witch Rosemary are enjoying a normal day eating noodles when a strange growling noise starts coming from the freezer. It’s the ice-cream master, who asks Michelin to help out in Humpia in the Great Sorbet Race. The entire group sets off on an adventure to a land covered in snow and ice. But will the bickering between the contestants spoil the race?

The Rosemary series is a whimsical and colourful adventure for fans of illustrated storytelling, with a wacky plot, energetic dialogue, mysterious creatures and surprises at every turn.

Madeleine, Michelin, Slice and Bebe are the four members of the Cooking Club, who are taken on headless adventures with a kitchen witch Rosemary and her magical pepper mill. It does not matter where these characters come from, but their noses are always seeking out the next fantastical journey. With light and fun text and illustrations to carry the story forward, Rosemary encourages reluctant readers as much as comic fans to pick up the book.

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About the author

Miina Supinen is a Finnish journalist, creative writing teacher, and author of five novels, two story collections, a music biography, and two children’s middle-grade series.Her adult fiction breakthrough novel, Liha tottelee kuria [Jelly Control] (WSOY, 2007) earned her critical acclaim as an ’unwilling humourist’. Her works have previously been translated into Czech, Danish and German.

Miina Supinen (b. 1976) is an author, journalist and teaches creative writing. She is known for her whimsical fiction for children and adults. Her adult fiction has received various literary prize nominations in Finland.Anni Nykänen (b. 1983) is a comic artist, illustrator and graphic designer. She has been nominated for the Comic Finlandia prize three times.Rosemary series is their playful collaboration, which started as part of an early reader series Cookery Club in 2018. The characters resurfaced in independent new adventures and in a new format in longer extent as Rosemary series in 2022.