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. »

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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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Simsala glue, here is your… Dockaroo! When Stanley feels lonely and wants to have a pet then Johanna starts to invent, even though it is her day off. But Stanley has to be careful as Dockaroo can be very fast…
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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

We are also very happy that the organization Barnfonden (member of the ChildFund Alliance) have choosen to print 10 000 Inventor-Johanna postcards and distributed them to all their sponsor families in Sweden. Postcards that the families can send as birthday greetings to the children abroad that they sponsor.

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.

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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.