Jan Lööf
Jan Lööf was born in 1940 in Trollhättan, he works both as an artist and writer. He started drawing different kind of characters very early in his life and graduated from Konstfack/University College of Arts, Crafts and Design. He got international success with the book Sagan om det röda äpplet (1974) and has kept on going since then.
Books by Jan Lööf
Scrapyard-Nisse and his New Friends
Jan Lööf
Scrapyard-Nisse has got some new friends – just when he was about to have a holiday. The cat Missan, pig Nassen and monkey Affe have moved in. It’s noisy, nothing like the peace and quiet he wanted. Scrapyard-Nisse finally gets the animals to go away…
Swedish title: Skrot-Nisse och hans nya vänner
Category: Children
Pub date: 29-10-2020
Format: 260 x 195 mm, 48 pages, colour
The Story of the Red Apple
Jan Lööf
A modern classic.Once upon a time there was a man in a striped suit that placed an apple in the window to let it ripen in the sun. But the apple fell onto his great grandmother’s head, who screamed, which scared the cat so much that it ran up the tre…
Swedish title: Sagan om det röda äpplet
Category: Children
Pub date: 23-08-2018
Format: 195x260mm, 32 pages, colour
Jan Lööf – A Collection
Jan Lööf
This lavish and outstanding collection is a tribute to one of Sweden’s biggest children’s writers and illustrators.For more than 50 years, Jan Lööf has written and illustrated children’s books. Many have become modern classics, read and loved by seve…
Swedish title: Jan Lööf sagosamling
Category: Children
Pub date: 14-09-2017
Format: 215x280mm, 304 pages, colour
When Felix Grew
Jan Lööf
When Felix steps out of the comic strip and into the picture book he is big, much bigger than the rest of the characters in the book. Something must have gone wrong and people seem afraid of him, but one girl says she can help him. She takes him to a…
Swedish title: När Felix blev stor
Category: Children
Pub date: 11-09-2015
Format: 250 x 290 mm, 40 pages, color
Monkeys and Other Animals
Jan Lööf
In Jan Lööf’s picture book for the smallest of children we revel in clear and fantasy-filled pictures of exciting exotic animals like rhinoceros, elephants, lions and more including lots of monkeys. Jan Lööf’s pictures now in small format for tiny to…
Swedish title: Apor och andra djur
Series: The Teddybear books
Category: Children
Pub date: 04-05-2015
Format: 150x160mm
Jan Lööf’s picture book
Jan Lööf
A boardbook for toddlers filled with Jan Lööfs wonderful illustrations!It is a book full of things, and people and animals of course.There will be instruments, dinosaurs, a miniature railway station, a circus, different cars, a doll’s house, and a vi…
Swedish title: Jan Lööfs Bilderbok
Category: Children
Pub date: 01-05-2011
Format: 18 pages, 220x309mm, colour
Pelle on his Planetary Journey
Jan Lööf
Pelle goes out into space! Bertil Hermit really does like to keep to himself. But his calm is always being disturbed by Engineer Björkman, who wants to get at Bertil’s secret book. The Earth has become an irritating place to live on! So Bertil decide…
Pelle and Frasse
Jan Lööf
Once upon a time, long long ago (in the 1970s) he was in a television series for children. He played the eldest brother, the one with the sticky-out teeth. The teeth were fake, but the TV series became a real cult hit! When Pelle is on the way home o…
Matilda’s Cats
Jan Lööf
Swedish title: Matildas katter
Category: Children
Pub date: 11-08-2008
Format: 32 pages, 260 x 190 mm, colour
Let´s Go
Jan Lööf
This book is like a wonderful catalogue, where we can revel in clear, solid, imaginative pictures of different forms of transport: submarines, cars that are a heap of junk, houseboats, tractors, helicopters … Jan Lööf is a completely unique illustrat…
Swedish title: Nu ska vi köra
Category: Children
Pub date: 12-03-2007
Format: 18 pages, 260 x 185 mm, colour
Catch him!
Jan Lööf
Swedish title: Ta fast Fabian
Category: Children
Pub date: 20-02-2006
Format: 165x210 mm, 32 pages, color
Pelle And Uncle Otto’s Invention
Jan Lööf
To anyone who’s read his books, it’s not exactly a secret that Jan Lööf likes machines and engines.In Pelle and Uncle Otto’s Invention he goes all the way and tells all the little petrol heads out there about the history of the internal combustion en…
Pelle Helps a Knight
Jan Lööf
Swedish title: Pelle hjälper en riddare
Category: Children
Pub date: 31-08-2004
Format: 36 pages, colour illustrations, 210 x 210 mm
The Story of the Red Apple
Jan Lööf
Pelle meets an engineer
Jan Lööf
It’s two o’clock, Pelles’ mom will be home in an hour. Should he make the most of the time and finish cleaning his room? He starts with the railway tracks, but barely has time to pick up the first piece before a voice tells him to leave it where it i…
Oscar’s Cars
Carl Johan De Geer