Jan Lööf

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Mathilde Coffy

Foreign Rights Director | Children's Books (On Study Leave)

Agent

Mathilde Coffy

Foreign Rights Director | Children's Books (On Study Leave)

Agent

Mathilde Coffy

Foreign Rights Director | Children's Books (On Study Leave)

Agent

Mathilde Coffy

Foreign Rights Director | Children's Books (On Study Leave)

Category: Children

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…

Swedish title: Pelle på planetfärd

Series: Pelle

Category: Children

Pub date: 01-09-2010

Format: 32 pages, 250x290mm, colour

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…

Swedish title: Pelle och Frasse

Series: Pelle

Category: Children

Pub date: 15-08-2009

Format: 32 pages, 210x210, colour

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…

Swedish title: Pelle och Farbror Ottos uppfinning

Series: Pelle

Category: Children

Pub date: 30-01-2006

Format: 36 pages, 210 x 210 mm, colour

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

Swedish title: Sagan om det röda äpplet

Category: Children

Pub date: 22-08-2004

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…

Swedish title: Pelle träffar en lokförare

Category: Children

Pub date: 26-03-2004

Format: 36 pages

Oscar’s Cars

Carl Johan De Geer

Swedish title: Örnis bilar

Category: Children

Pub date: 01-08-1994

Format: 32 pages