Lotta Geffenblad
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Lotta Geffenblad
Born 1962 in Lund, in the south of Sweden. 1982 she moved to Stockholm to study at Beckmans, a school of art and design. Since 1985 she has primarily worked with animation, and she has produced a great deal of animated films during the years, often in cooperation with other illustrators. Her co-operation with Uzi Geffenbladthat has resulted in the multi awarded animation Apricots, Among the thorns, and Aston’s stones , that was released in the movie theatres in December 2007. Lotta is also lecturing at drawing schools on the special ”cut out” technique. She has also designed the characters for an animated Tv-series for older children, called Creepschool, and also made props and masks for different dance – and theatre performances.
”I have always loved picture books. During the years as a parent of small children I read lots of picture books to my own children. But children grow and suddenly they didn’t like the same books as they had a couple of years ago, so the daily contact with picture books stopped, sadly enough. But sometimes I sneaked in at the younger children’s department at the library to sit there and read for a while. And sometimes I was secretly reading picture books in the bookstores, but it wasn’t quite the same without a listener. So I started to play, probably driven by some sort of an abstinence, with my own ideas. It is so much fun to tell stories! Everything can happen in a picture book. You can use colour and form, drama, moods and play with words in a free and playful way. I think it’s great to be the one to open the door to the amazing world of picture books. Both as a reader for children as well as a creator of books.”
Aston’s stones won Bonnier Carlsen’s picture book contest in 2004, for its beautiful poetic and magic text and illustrations, in competition with over 1200 other manuscripts. Lotta says that she was inspired by old Japanese wood cuts when she made the illustrations.
Books by Lotta Geffenblad
Tora and Titch Exercise
Lotta Geffenblad
The two friends Tora and Titch are warming up — it’s time to exercise!It turns into a sweaty session with dumbbells, heavy weights and skipping ropes. Giant Tora and tiny Titch prefer different kinds of equipment. But they both jump and dangle, and t…
Tora and Titch on Planting Day
Lotta Geffenblad
Tora and Titch are two wonderful friends who are completely different. Tora is really big and Titch is teeny tiny.In this first book in the series, we follow Tora and Titch on their gardening mission as they prepare for the first day of planting. As…
I Am the Troll
Jenny Bergman
On her way to nursery a little girl is suddenly transformed into a big troll. And just like that, the former child scares away her parents, gobbles up her nursery friends and goes to live in the forest. There she can do whatever she wants, like runni…
Magical December
Katarina Genar
A shimmering Christmas story to read, one chapter a day, until Christmas eve! Nothing is as it should, with Julia’s best friend having moved away and her parents being constantly busy with work.She isn’t even sure that there will be a Christmas at al…
Spot and Splodge Upside Down
Lotta Geffenblad
Spot and Splodge are back in new adventures.Lots of clowns with big red noses, jugglers, drums and trumpets. And acrobats! The acrobats perform amazing somersaults and high jumps. It looks fun, exciting and perhaps just a little bit dangerous… Imagin…
Betty in the Middle of the Night
Lotta Geffenblad
Betty has left home! But she’s only a hungry, lonely little cat, sailing along in a potty and fishing with her rod… She does get a bite, but it isn’t something to eat, just horrible stuff. And cats can’t eat rubbish. But what’s this on the end of her…
Spot and Splodge Learn to Print
Lotta Geffenblad
Can Spot and Splodge actually read? You have to ask yourself! They often hold books and other reading material upside down. But as they sit there peeling potatoes, they get a magnifying glass to look at a mark on one of the potatoes, and suddenly the…
Aston’s presents
Lotta Geffenblad
It’s Aston’s birthday! He gets a bike, and his aunt sends him a present by mail. It’s a kite, and also a board, so the kite wouldn’t break during the transport.But today it’s raining, so Aston cannot try his bike or his kite. The board, though, is go…
Spot and Splodge See Stars
Lotta Geffenblad
When you’re out in the dark you have to watch out! Far out in the sky there are lots of stars that shine like small spots. And a very big spot – the moon. If you watch really close, you can see letters and numbers. Spot and Splodge are watching very…
Spot And Splodge – Tooth Magic!
Lotta Geffenblad
Spot and Splodge are up to all sorts on the sofa today! They’ve got a bag full of sweets – cola cubes, jelly babies, liquorice laces . . . And besides the fact that the sweets taste so good, you can do all kinds of magic tricks with them – make them…
Spot and Splodge at Home
Lotta Geffenblad
Spot and Splodge’s blue sofa is at the very heart of their home and their lives. One evening they discover that both the sofa and the walls are much dirtier than they should be – yuck. But you can sort out splodges and that sort of thing – Spot and S…
Aston’s stones
Lotta Geffenblad
Aston feels sorry for all the lonely stones he sees, so he picks them up and brings them home and takes care of them. Every day he finds a new one; how strange that there are always new stones who are lonely, or bored or cold. It soon gets crowded at…
Spot and Splodge Get Cooking
Lotta Geffenblad
Spot and Splodge decide they fancy something nice to eat, and they immediately set to work baking white dough balls and brown sponge buns. They end up covered in sticky splodges and spots and have to have a bath. Then they can enjoy the good things t…
Spot and Splodge on a picnic
Lotta Geffenblad
It is a day with buzzing and bird-song – the ideal day for a picnic! But lots of other little animals also want to take part and taste the cakes and some of them start to bite and sting! Before long, Spot and Splodge are even more spotty and splodgy…
