It’s winter. ‘I want visitors’, says Dunne Door with a sigh. ‘That’s not possible’, says Dikke Door. ‘The snow is too high.’ But then somebody does come to visit. A thief! Somebody is taking things from the house. Door and Door lay a trap. Will the thief be caught?
Age 5 and upwards
Sam is scared. Of everything. The Three-Headed Bloodman lives under his bed. When Sam moves house he has a row with the biggest bully of his new school. But then Sam finds a mysterious book. A book which helps him to become master over all the shadows. Especially his own.
Age 8 and upwards Translations… >>
Limburg 1937. The sisters Fing, Muulke and Jes are constantly moving house. This time they land up with their family in a dilapidated house in which nobody else wants to live: Negen Open Armen. Disaster after disaster very quickly stack up and another move appears inevitable. Then the sisters discover a tombstone with a mysterious inscription. The find marks the beginning of a wonderful voyage of discovery back into the past.
Age 12 and upwards
Negen Open Armen was awarded the Gouden Zoen and the Thea Beckman prize and nominated for the German Youth Literature prize. Translations… >>
Johannes has been very ill. Something to do with his blood. He has been lying in hospital for months. One day he’s allowed to return home, to his fathers Herman and Pieter. But Johannes is scared of becoming ill again. Sometimes fear is like a dark cloud. Fortunately Pieter is a weatherman. Every evening he points the good weather into the right direction. And if stormy weather still appears there’s always Herman’s coat at hand.
Age 9 and upwards Translations… >>
One morning Annelie stumbles in the sitting-room. She falls very badly, not on the ground, but upwards, upwards! ‘I think I’m going to heaven,’ says Annelie. ‘Today is Falling Up Day’. 16 ultra short stories exploring the colourful world of an imaginative young girl.
Age 6 and upwards