Little Anna

Girlpower in a small and sweet package.

Little Anna & The Tall Man (Lilla Anna och Långa Farbrorn) is a Swedish children ́s book series written and Illustrated by Inger and Lasse Sandberg. The main characters are Anna, a little girl in a red dress, and The Tall Man, a man in a yellow suit and a green top hat. Rights & Brands represents Little Anna for merchandising and publishing rights worldwide, excluding Swedish publishing rights.

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Pia Lindén

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Little Anna News

The 2025 Adlibris Awards Nominees Announced

New Little Ghost Laban Movie Premieres in October – watch the official trailer!

A new Little Ghost Laban film to premiere later this year

Magic & Prints’ playful collection features everyone’s favorite ghost: Little Ghost Laban

Read worldwide stories by Rights & Brands in the second issue of R&B Magazine

Little Ghost Laban wins the Children category in Storytel Awards

Rights & Brands is partnering with the digital fair Digibarn

60 years

The first book was published in 1964

25 books published

about Little Anna and her friend The Tall Man

Music and songs

available on Spotify

Popular character

Audiobooks

available on Storytel

Film & TV

Little Anna has been featured in films and TV

Photo of Inger and Lasse Sandberg for Rights and Brands Literary Rights.

About Inger and Lasse Sandberg

Inger and Lasse Sandberg got married in 1950 and were not only life-partners, they were also co-writers. Together they wrote and illustrated over 100 books. Their first breakthrough was the story about Little Anna & The Tall Man in 1964. Since then, several characters, such as Little Ghost Laban and Thumbkin, have become classics.

Lasse Sandberg passed away in 2008, and Inger Sandberg in 2023. Until this day, Lasse and Inger are still considered one of Sweden’s most popular illustrators and children’s book authors.