books — Karin Holmström - illustratör & formgivare

Ajja & Bajja på förskolan

Pippa & Boo at the preschool

Text: Elvira Ashby Illustration and graphic design: Karin Holmström Published by: Hatten Förlag 2018

Join Ajja and Bajja to preschool. There is a lot of fun to do; there is a gathering, lunch and all the kids play with the toys ... but where is Bajja?

Ajja & Bajja

Pippa & Boo

Text: Elvira Ashby Illustration and graphic design: Karin Holmström Published by: Hatten Förlag 2012

Pippa is a sweet little tyke who likes bouncing on the sofa. But who's that hiding underneath?

Ajja & Bajja ska sova

Night-night, Pippa & Boo

Text: Elvira Ashby Illustration and graphic design: Karin Holmström Published by: Hatten Förlag 2012

It's nearly bedtime, but there's still lots left to do. Pippa wants to take a bath, and read a book, and who falls asleep first do you think?

Ajja & Bajja hos doktorn

Pippa & Boo at the doctor’s

Text: Elvira Ashby Illustration and graphic design: Karin Holmström Published by: Hatten Förlag 2018

Oh no. Ajja has a stomach ache. Ouch! And of course Bajja. Aj aj aaj! They have to go to the doctor. But who do you think come up with pranks once they arrive?

Ajja & Bajja i parken

Pippa & Boo at the playground

Text: Elvira Ashby Illustration and graphic design: Karin Holmström Published by Hatten Förlag 2012

Time for an outing! Grandma comes to take the gang to the playground. It's fun to go on the swings, play in the sand and throw the ball. But what happens when Grandma wants to go down the slide?

Ajja & Bajjas ramsor

Rhymes for you with pippa & Boo

Text: Elvira Ashby Illustration and graphic design: Karin Holmström Published by: Hatten Förlag 2013

A rhyming book, designed to fit everyday situations in order to build vocabulary, speech and language.

*** Rhymes for you with Pippa & Boo was Nominated by IBBY International to “Outstanding books for young people with disabilities”, 2014

Vem lurar vem?

Who tricks who?

Text: Carin Wirsén Illustration: Karin Holmström Published by: Rabén & Sjögren 2011

Alma has been tricked by some classmates. Now she wants to trick them back. She figures out a clever plan and her friend Egon helps her. Are they going to be able to trick the others into believing that pieces of toffee can have children?

Häxläxa

Who's the witch?

Text: Carin Wirsén Illustration: Karin Holmström Published by: Rabén & Sjögren 2012

Alma and Egon experience and invent mysteries in everyday life. Now they have discovered that there is probably a witch living in their building. Or is there?

Glassmaskinen

The Ice Cream Machine

Text: Carin Wirsén Illustration: Karin Holmström Published by: Rabén & Sjögren 2012

Alma loves ice cream. Egon does too. It is best and cheapest if you can make your own with an ice cream machine! Egon and Alma check out the department store. HOW expensive! Now they have to make money!

Ensamma hunden

Lonely Dog

Text: Carin wirsén Illustration: Karin Holmström Published by: Rabén & Sjögren 2013

Alma and Egon are in the kitchen playing a game. They look outside. In the street they see a man and his dog waiting for the bus. Alma loves dogs! When they look outside again the man is gone but the dog is still sitting there shivering by the bus stop. Alma and Egon rush off to save it!

Hemliga nyckeln

Text: Carin Wirsén Illustration: Karin Holmström Published by: Rabén & Sjögren 2014

Alma and Egon find a key with a little monkey when they are looking for tussilago. They decide to investigate where the key goes. The key does not fit in the garbage room lock, not the laundry room and not in the mysterious little door next to the gate. They go up the attic, to try if the key goes to any of the stores. They try the key in all padlocks, but it does not fit in anything. But one of the storage cages is open, and there are duvets and torn clothes in a pile on the floor. Does anyone live here?

Vem bus-ringer?

Who is making prank calls?

Text: Carin Wirsén illustration: Karin Holmström Published by: Rabén & Sjögren 2013

Alma really wants her own cellphone. What a luck that her cousin has an old one that she never uses. Nobody knows that Alma has her own phone – just think about all the mischief she can do! But the following day at school is not so fun. Lisa has lost her cellphone and Leon and Malte believe that it’s Alma who took it.

Kidnappare

Text: Carin Wirsén Illustration: Karin Homström Published by: Rabén & Sjögren 2015

Alma and Egon are on their way home from school. They walk past a playground. There is a little kid standing there, and it is not a man nearby. Should such a small one go to a playground completely by itself?

Låna i smyg

Text: Carin Wirsén Illustration: Karin Holmström Published by: Rabén & Sjögren 2016

Today, the class will be skating. It's the best Alma knows but she has no skates! Hers are way too small. Then Egon tells her that there are a lot of forgotten things in the janitor’s store, and maybe, maybe there are a couple of skates to Alma there. And of course there are skates in the store, but if Alma should be able to take them, she must say that they are hers ...

Moa älskar Jesse

Text: Micka Andersson Illustration: Karin Holmström Published by: LL-förlaget, 2009

When Moa sees Jesse she gets butterflies in her stomach, she is in love! The problem is just that Jesse is one year younger. And you can't be with a kid! At least Moas best friend Agnes says so, and Moa dare not admit to Agnes how she feels. Rumors begin to spread and someone starts to scribble horrible words about Moa on the walls of the school. What should she do?

Rulle och raketen

Text: Elvira Ashby Illustration and graphic design: Karin Holmström Published by: Hatten Förlag, 2011

One night, Rulle wakes up by a buzzing sound. A rocket has landed in his room! The rocket takes him to the planet Rariporoxicus where he meets a whimsical robot.