hi!
my name is inventor-johanna and I´m going to be the world’s best inventor! this is my place on the internet! here you can read about my inventions and about the people who live on my block.
you can watch my tv-serie, in swedish, on ur play.
here you can watch the trailer. »
people (and dogs)
the films
Inventor-Johanna is 8 years old and an inventor. She sees solutions where others see problems.
Here we will get to know an inventive girl full of fantasy that her younger brothers, Sten and Stanley, admire. Her motto “if it doesn’t work in one way, it works in another” is very useful when things never go quite as they are planned.
dockaroo
scary larry
the wake-up machine
the scaring-machine
the no-need-to-walk machine
the grand sporting day
the lucia-tree
the books
(age 3-6 yrs)
the books are in swedish
Simsala daft, get ready for laughs! Inventor-Johanna is going to be the best inventor in the whole world. Today she is going to test her new invention on the grumpiest old man in town, Scary Larry. Nothing can go wrong. Johanna’s little brothers Sten and Stanley go with her.
Oh! Johanna gets so angry! “Too little to be here?” Johanna decides to invent a Scaring Machine. An invention that silences all bullies and “you´re too little to be here”-people.
Every day it´s the same. When Inventor-Johanna and her brothers are going to go home they totally run out of energy. They can´t walk any further. “Is it going to be like this our whole lives?” they wonder. “Off course not!” Johanna says and starts to invent. Simsala ultrasupreme, my No-Need-To-Walk-Machine!
Simsala lightning and thunder, I have my moments of wonder! Inventor-Johanna knows exactly what to dress us as. She needs a hairdryer, flour and paint. And the fairy-lights from the balcony. Now its just to get stuck right into inventing. This must turn into the best show ever.
johanna in swahili and english
We are delighted that the Swedish Ambassy in Tanzania has chosen to translate and print the book “Full Speed ahead Johanna the Inventor” in Swahili and English. This is how the book looks like!
postcards with johanna
the craft and activity book
Inventor-Johanna loves to keep herself busy with crafts and inventions!
In her craft and activity book you will find a lot of things to work with.
You can draw your own invention, do crosswords, colour in and make things up.
fix and trix!
choose a page to print and work with.
at the museum
At the Museum of Work in Norrköping, Sweden, Johanna guides and lets children and families explore different kinds of jobs through history.
Free admission
Monday–Friday 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Saturday–Sunday 11 a.m.–5 p.m.
More information:
the book creators
Ann-Christine Magnusson
Has written about 30 books for children and teenagers and also a large number of plays. She also works a director.
To invent is to have the will/urge to create something that never has been made before –this is very similar from writing. To make up new people, relationships between them and environments they live in is a way of inventing things. This is probarbly why I think it is so fun to write.
I hope that Johanna’s creativity can inspire kids as I belive that the process of creating can be a kind of ‘free zone’ where everyday rules and norms don’t apply. Where the thought and the making can go how- and whereever. A place where it doesn’t matter if things turn out a bit wonky.
Lovisa Lesse
I am an illustrator and animationdesigner and I have illustrated about 80 books and worked on several animated TV-series for children.
My Dad, uncle and grandfather were inventors. The goodnight stories of my childhood were all about the things my grandfather had invented by using parts of his old T-Ford car.
To find solutions to everyday problems is something both Johanna and my grandfather have in common.