Picture This! winners 2020

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NO TIME! Looking at the world through a child’s eyes: that is what Esther van den Brink tries to do in her stories. In the story No time!, al little girl tries to escape the grasp of the clock. She crawls through a hole in the hedge, in search of a place where time does not exist. In her little life, time is already a domina-

Esther van den Brink   ting factor. Repeatedly, all the fun things she does need   to stop because “it’s time”. It’s why she has to stop eating, stop playing hide and seek, stop drawing, stop swimming, and so on. When she finds a place where time does not rule everything, she discovers that a clock can also be convenient at times!

J U R Y R E P O R T Esther van den Brink’s protagonist is a small girl. In her drawings, the girl is liter-

ally small, and the exciting scenery dominates: a gap in the hedgerow, a forest with tall trees, or a mysterious tangle of rope. Each time, the author lets her protagonist look forward in time, and the

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