100 Cupboards is being translated into a passle of languages, as I believe I already informed you. I think the Danes are first with 100 Lager.
This very nice review below appeared in Denmark, and was written by one Christina Andersen. I am sure the, um, quaint turns of phrase here are actually a feature of Google translation, and not how it comes across if you actually read Danish.
“For all of you with parents intact: it seems that the magical adventures mainly happening to orphans. It seems to be a perfectly reasonable trade — in fantasy land: You have no parents — in return you get a little more magic to a daily use. “100 doors” is sweet and humorous fantasy with a very high amenity value.
Henry is the easier reluctant protagonist. He is 12 years old and on the way out of the country in Arkansas to live with his uncle and aunt, as he has not seen since he was 4 years old. He is not too bold, and it goes quickly up to us that perhaps it is partly the result of overly protective parents:
“Henry had never sat on the left of a truck before, and he felt it was illegal, but the only one trip, he makes with his parents [.] He had seen the entire cargo of markarbejdere pass on the way. He had been clamped to the back seat of a Volvo at the time, so he had been game to envy. A few kilometres further on, he had to his surprise found that nine-year boys usually do not use child seat. A school bus full of school children had riallera taught him the lesson at a traffic light.”
Henry is given a loftvaerelse in his new home. He discovers that behind polished on the wall hiding a completely different wall full of doors. And these doors leading apparently into the other worlds. Together with kusinen Henrietta he starts to examine the doors, and the confused soon in the great adventure of lost civilizations, evil witches and bitter feer.
Uncle Frank is fun, alternative and entertaining and a good support for Henry. The family is in general way very nice, and even Henry simply wish to be. But Uncle Frank and Aunt Dotty has many secrets, and everything is absolutely, certainly not as it appears in Arkansas.
Fortable Harry Potter fans could find solace here.
The book is the first part of a planned triology, and we can only look forard to the successors with joy and expectation.”