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Hans Kuyper and Alice Hoogstad - Friends Happy and Sad
Hans Kuyper and Alice Hoogstad joined forces to create this lavish rhyming picture book, with emotions that simply leap off the pages. The fun starts on the endpapers, where Hoogstad portrays a colourful parade of creatures: the lonely elephant with... >>>> read more
Annemarie van Haeringen - JoJo the Snake Girl
JoJo is born in the circus, but with six brothers there isn’t really any room for her. The cutlery tray is her cradle and her first bed is a drawer in the sideboard. She has to fold herself up to... >>>> read more
Henk van Straten & Martijn van der Linden - All the Fish Found Elephant
One day an elephant appears in the sea, just bobbing along. None of the sea creatures know where it’s come from or even whether it really is an elephant. ‘Elephants don’t exist,’ says one. ‘Yes, they do,’ says another, ‘but... >>>> read more
Bas van Lier - How Much Paper Goes Into a Tree?
In part seven of the successful Children’s Questions series, Bas van Lier answers fifty questions about sustainability. As for the title: ‘With one tree trunk of around ten metres long and thirty centimetres thick, you can make about eight thousand... >>>> read more
Thé Tjong-Khing - The Storyteller’s Thirty Most Beautiful Fairytales
Thé Tjong-Khing, the most highly acclaimed illustrator in the Netherlands, realized when he was reading stories to his grandson just how complex fairytales can be. Gottmer commissioned him to compile two books of fairytales, in which he recounted famous tales... >>>> read more
Judith Eiselin - Jim (Illustrator Monique Bauman)
Judith Eiselin is one of those rare children’s writers capable of entering into the heads of their characters, in this case eleven-year-old Kiki Moerman. Kiki’s fourteen-year-old brother Jelmer is highly gifted but extremely sensitive. He goes off into his own... >>>> read more