Sumarlidi og Soldis have moved with their parents into a basement suite to be with the asylum-seeker Karitas. They devour the many books they find there to discover what life was like in the old days when people had phones and computers and bicycles. But in between the books are also hidden high-tech messages from the future! The bad guys in Heidardalur valley haven’t forgotten anything and send spies to find out what’s going on down in the basement.

The Copper Egg is the continuation of The Silver Key which won the Icelandic Literature Prize for Children’s literature, and which was also nominated for both the Reykjavik Children’s Literature Prize and the Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize.