Anna-Karin Garhamn
Anna-Karin Garhamn is an illustrator and textile designer trained at Konstfack in Stockholm. She was born in 1980 in Borås.
In connection with her 2005 graduation exhibition she was asked to create illustration for the book We think of you, grandfather ! It became her debut book as a children’s book illustrator and since then there have been many more books, for example, Everyone wants food! Tove Jansson, Fiepe Westendorp, Marc Boutavant, Gunilla Hansson and Ilon Wikland are some of Anna Karin’s role models in the children’s world.
Anna-Karin currently lives in Belgium with her family. In her spare time, Anna-Karin plays Roller Derby in Gent’s Go-Go-Rollergirls A team.
Books by Anna-Karin Garhamn
Nature First Aid Everyday
Grethe Rottböll
Udde and Leija have started their own club ‘First Aid for Animals’ in order to help animals and nature.One day Udde and Leija decide to do something good for nature, or rather, just some new good thing every day. They challenge their families and cla…
Swedish title: Första Naturhjälpen alla dagar i veckan
Series: Easy-to-read facts
Category: Children
Pub date: 01-07-2021
Format: 148 x 210 mm, 56 pages, colour
Puck Plays Football
Anna-Karin Garhamn
Today there is a football match. Puck and Mum are cheering for Puck’s cousins. It looks like fun – Puck wants to play football too! At home in the garden, Mum shows how to play football. But why won’t the ball go where Puck wants it to go? Puck pract…
Puck at the Restaurant
Anna-Karin Garhamn
Anna-Karin Garhamn’s series about Puck is a set of funny and charming picture books about both the big and small adventures of everyday life. Today, Puck is going to a restaurant. It’s the nicest place Puck has ever seen! All the tables look as if th…
Puck Goes To the Dentist
Anna-Karin Garhamn
It is time for Puck to visit the dentist. How exciting! What happens there? The dentist has a cool chair which moves up and a lamp that shines as brightly as the sun. How lucky that Puck brought sunglasses. Now Puck can look in the mirror and see whe…
Puck and Rabbit Count
Anna-Karin Garhamn
In this book, Puck teaches his stuffed animal Rabbit about finger-counting. Puck and Rabbit count everything, all the time and everywhere. They count the clothes in the laundry room, the ice-cream in the freezer, the stuff at the food store and in be…
First Aid for Animals Goes Camping
Grethe Rottböll
Udde and Leija have started their own club ”First Aid for Animals” in order to help animals and nature. In this story we follow the friends on a real summer adventure as they discover how it works to camp on the beach, in the forest and by the meadow…
Swedish title: Första Naturhjälpen tältar
Series: Easy-to-read facts
Category: Children
Pub date: 02-07-2018
Format: 148 x 210 mm, 64 pages, colour
Puck Learns to Ride a Bicycle
Anna-Karin Garhamn
Puck is going to get his very first bicycle and learn how to ride it. A charming and fun picture book.Puck and his mum go to the bicycle shop and it is full of lots of different models. He chooses the nicest one as well as a new helmet in his favouri…
Puck goes to the cinema
Anna-Karin Garhamn
Mum and Puck are going to the cinema. When they get there they choose which film they want to see. There are funny films and scary films but only two children’s films. Puck chooses the one with rabbits. Then they buy popcorn, look for the right door…
First Aid for Animals
Grethe Rottböll
Udde and Leija have started First Aid for Animals. There are a lot of animals out there that need their help and many of them are surprisingly close – just outside the house or even in the drawer. The club has its own motto: ”Don’t be scared of natur…
Swedish title: Första naturhjälpen räddar djuren
Series: Easy-to-read facts
Category: Children
Pub date: 12-06-2017
Format: 148 x 210mm, 64 pages, color
Puck gets a sibling
Anna-Karin Garhamn
Mummy’s belly is much bigger than usual. Has she been eating too much cake recently? Nope, that’s Puck new sibling who lives in there. Puck thinks of all the fun they will be able to have together. It is almost as exciting and snug as Puck thought it…
Puck Goes to the Hairdresser
Anna-Karin Garhamn
Puck’s hair is too long! He tries to tie it back but that doesn’t help. It needs to be cut! Mum books a time at the hairdresser. Exciting, thinks Puck. But what hairstyle should he have? Maybe a spiky cut or a pageboy cut or a very short cut? Puck wa…
Puck goes on an Aeroplane
Anna-Karin Garhamn
Puck and mum are going on an airplane. First their luggage is weighed, their passports are checked and then they must go through security control. And finally they come to the biggest airplane Puck has ever seen. But who is going to fly it? wonders P…
Everybody wants a home
Grethe Rottböll
A colourful and playful reference book for the youngest children about ordinary animals and insects in our immediate surroundings. How and where do the woodlouse , the squirrel and the bat live? Search between stumps, among trees and in the attic. In…
Swedish title: Alla vill ha ett bo
Category: Children
Pub date: 15-05-2012
Format: 32 pages, 195x260 mm, colour
Everybody wants food
Grethe Rottböll
A colourful and playful fact book for the youngest children, about ordinary animals and insects in our immediate environment.Have you found a butterfly, a worm or a frog? Here you can find out what food they like and how you can look after them while…
Swedish title: Alla vill ha mat!
Category: Children
Pub date: 02-05-2011
Format: 32 pages, 195x260, color