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Bologna 2018
Leopold is delighted that two titles have been nominated for the prestigious Woutertje Pieterse Prijs 2018. The winner will be announced on April 5th. We are keeping our fingers crossed!
Nominated for the Debut Prize of the Jonge Jury
And then, Sheherazade? And then? – Tales of Thousand and One Nights – Age 10+
Under My Mattress the Pea – Poetry
Thirteenth Day Fiction – Age 14+
Winner of the Grand Prix Biennial of Illustration Bratislava
We are proud to announce that Milja Praagman has been chosen to create this year’s picture book for the annual Dutch Children’s Book Week.
By the Dutch queen of fantasy, published in more than 20 countries.
Translation grants: The Dutch Foundation for Literature supports writers and translators and promotes Dutch literature abroad. Foreign publishers may apply for a subsidy towards translation costs. For information and application forms: Dutch Foundation for Literature, Agnes Vogt, post@letterenfonds.nl, Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89, 1018 VR Amsterdam, T +31 (0)20 520 7300, www.letterenfonds.nl
Leopold Publishers Postbus 1050, 1000 BB Amsterdam, The Netherlands Rights Manager: Luciënne van der Leije lucienne.vanderleije@wpgmedia.nl rights@leopold.nl www.leopold.nl
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Bologna 2018
now also available: an official gorgel cuddly toy!
new edition
Published in Germany (Freies Geistesleben) and Denmark (Turbine) – Continuously in Bestseller List since one year
Published in Germany (Mixt Vision), Spain (Ediciones SM) and Turkey (Galata) Winner of the Gouden Lijst (Golden Frame Award for best YA book of the year) and the Thea Beckman Award (best historical juvenile novel)
recent rights sold:
Russian rights
Polish rights
World English rights
Swedish rights sold to
Spanish rights sold
Simplified
sold to Kachelly
sold to Dwie
sold to Eerdmans
Berghs Forlag
to Siruela
Chinese rights
Siostry
Japanese rights sold
rights sold to
Hungarian
to BL Publishing, via
Beijing Yutian
rights sold
English Agency
Hanfeng Books
to Kolibri
Co.LTD, via
publishing
Grayhawk
Translation grants: The Dutch Foundation for Literature supports writers and translators and promotes Dutch literature abroad. Foreign publishers may apply for a subsidy towards translation costs. For information and application forms: Dutch Foundation for Literature, Agnes Vogt, post@letterenfonds.nl, Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89, 1018 VR Amsterdam, T +31 (0)20 520 7300, www.letterenfonds.nl
Leopold Publishers Postbus 1050, 1000 BB Amsterdam, The Netherlands Rights Manager: LuciĂŤnne van der Leije lucienne.vanderleije@wpgmedia.nl rights@leopold.nl www.leopold.nl
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Imme Dros & Annemarie van Haeringen age 10+
And then, Sheherazad? And then? – Tales of Thousand and One Nights
• Nominated for the Woutertje Pieterse Prijs 2018 • ‘Dros writes in a flowing metre, choosing her own approach that fits her passion for storytelling and does justice to the oral narrative tradition of the fairy tales.’ – NRC Handelsblad • ‘Imme Dros has made a vibrant new selection from the One Thousand and One Nights stories. Beautifully illustrated by Annemarie van Haeringen.’ – de Volkskrant A long time ago in a land far away... ... lived the young king Shahryar, who discovered that his wife was being unfaithful to him. Crazy with heartbreak, he had her killed. Then, every night, he took a new bride, whom he had beheaded by his visor the next morning. Until Sheherazad, the visor’s daughter, asks her father if she can be the next bride. On the first night, Sheherazad tells the king a story that is not finished by the morning. Shahryar lets her live another day in order to hear the ending the following night. But the story continues into another story that will not be concluded by the morning. The betrayed ruler cannot resist the incomplete, and the nights come round again and again… A selection from the One Thousand and One Nights stories, retold by multiple Zilveren Griffel winner Imme Dros. Richly illustrated by multiple Gouden Penseel winner Annemarie van Haeringen.
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Original title: En toen, Sheherazade, en toen? – Uit de verhalen van duizend-en-een-nacht Full colour | 21,3 x 28,6 cm | 208 pages Rights sold: German www.leopold.nl rights@leopold.nl
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Studio Circus
Vroom, vroom, Panda! board book age 2+
• Growing up with Panda: learn all about daily vehicles! • Leporello-edition
Panda makes a little road trip. It’s busy on the streets. Lion rides his bike, Bunny on a scooter and Hippo has a bike with only one wheel. Oh no! Hippo falls down. Luckily, Bear just arrives with his ambulance. Panda and his friends go and eat ice creams. Also by Studio Circus:
Published in Danish
Published in Danish
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Original title: Vroem, vroem, Panda! Full colour | 19 x 19 cm | 16 pages
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Saskia Halfmouw Weekend picture book all ages
• Big look-and-find book full of weekend fun • Find the hidden fairy-tale characters
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Original title: Zaterdag Full colour | 23,5 x 31 cm | 32 pages
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Finally! It’s the weekend. No school! What Saskia Halfmouw, known for Fuchsia the will you do on the best days of the week? Mini Witch, brings the ultimate weekend Play football, go swimming, go to the feeling to life. supermarket or go on an adventure in the dinosaur museum... Enjoy exploring this big look-and-find book full of weekend fun. Can you find everyone?
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Max Velthuijs At Frog’s House picture & play book age 3-6
• Build your own model of Frog’s house and play with Frog and his friends with this book and play set • Picture book with kit and cardboard characters • Made of strong cardboard, easy to assemble
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Original title: Bij Kikker thuis 20 x 20 cm | 24 pages
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It’s early in the morning and the sun is shining. Frog knows for sure: it’s going to be a beautiful day! Together with Bear he cleans his house, because he is expecting his friends. Visit Frog and put his house together.
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Max Velthuijs board book age 0-5
Frog and His Friends’ Big Lift-the-Flap Book • More than 60 flaps • Learn colours, numbers, shapes, sounds and much more
Green is the most beautiful colour in the world! Frog is big and Bear is small. The winter is cold and the summer is hot. Discover and learn colours, numbers, shapes, sounds and much more in the familiar world of Frog in this sturdy board book, with more than 60 flaps!
‘So many flaps!’ – Viva Mama
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Original title: Het grote flapjesboek van Kikker en zijn vriendjes Full colour | 27 x 27 cm | 24 pages
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‘This lift-the-flap book with more than 60 flaps is ideal to learn all about animals, sounds, colors and numbers in a playful way.’ – Weekend
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Max Velthuijs Board Books board book age 0-5
For information on the various titles, please take a look on our website
• Lovely board books with different themes
Board books by Max Velthuijs:
Also by Max Velthuijs:
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Harmen van Straaten picture book age 3+
Rat-A-Tat-Tat! We’re Not Going to Bed Yet!
• New classic for young children • Funny and relatable rhyming story • More than 20,000 copies of Hey, Who’s in the Loo? sold in the Netherlands
‘Go to bed, go to bed!’ says Sheep. He lets out a little yawn. ‘Let’s play first,’ says Hippopotamus. The animals are all dilly-dallying. One hides, another can’t find his pyjamas, the toothpaste is finished, the toilet is occupied... Everyone comes up with an excuse not to go to bed. But in the end they all brush their teeth and hit the sack. Because if they don’t, there’ll be no bedtime story! Mischievous read-aloud story to get your children to bed with a smile.
Also by Harmen van Straaten:
Rights sold: German (Freies Geistesleben), World-English (Red Robin Books), Korean, Simplified Chinese
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Original title: Retteketet! We gaan nog niet naar bed! Full color | 29,5 x 24 cm | 32 pages
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Milja Praagman Join us! picture book age 3+
• We are proud to announce that Milja Praagman has been chosen to create this year’s picture book for the annual Dutch Children’s Book Week.
‘Milja Praagman has a fresh, modern style and knows what small children are interested in,’ – de Volkskrant ‘All [Milja Praagmans] picture books are sweet ánd naughty. The illustrations are always colourful and happy.’ – Gooi en Eemlander
Cover to be revealed during the Bologna Book Fair
‘Familiar and recognisable for toddlers.’ – Jaap Leest
Sold to China
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Original title: Kom erbij! Full color | 24 x 29 cm | 32 pages To be published in October For information on the various titles, please take a look on our website. www.leopold.nl rights@leopold.nl
Sold to China, Denmark, Taiwan
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Annemarie van Haeringen & Ao De picture book age 3+
My Dad
• Every day is Father’s Day • From multiple Gouden Penseel winner Every morning Little Elephant wakes his dad up. That is not easy because Dad loves sleeping very much. But Little Elephant has a solution to that. Humming like a mosquito, with Mum’s watering can... And when Dad finally wakes up, he has to do his morning exercises in order to become a real Superman. Little Elephant knows exactly what his dad needs at any time of day to be the best dad in the world!
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Also by Annemarie van Haeringen:
The media on Ossip and the Unexpected Journey: ‘Van Haeringen is one of the Netherlands’ greatest illustrators, but each time it strikes us how compelling her writing is.’ – Jaap Leest Selected for the National Picture Book Top 10
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Original title: Mijn papa Full colour | 23,5 x 28 cm | 32 pages To be published in June Originally published by King-in Culture. Rights under option: German and Swedish. Asian rights not available www.leopold.nl rights@leopold.nls
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Paul van Loon Dolfje fiction age 7+
• Most lend out book in Dutch library • Beloved character
Winner Dutch Winner Dutch Children’s Jury Children’s Jury 2004 2006
A beloved character for over 20 years, Alfie is still going strong. More than 1 million copies have been sold and several titles have been published in the Uk, Spain, Germany and Lithuania
Winner Dutch Children’s Jury 1998
Winner Dutch Children’s Jury 2000
Winner Dutch Children’s Jury 2007
Winner Dutch Winner Dutch Nominated Dutch Nominated Nominated Children’s Jury Children’s Jury Children’s Jury Dutch Children’s Dutch Children’s 2008 2009 2011 Jury 2012 Jury 2013
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Nominated Nominated Dutch Children’s Dutch Children’s Jury 2015 Jury 2014
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Erna Sassen
My Best Friend Is an Indian fiction age 8+
• Sensitive, literary story from an acclaimed author • Topical theme: refugees • Main title Kinderboekenweek 2018
Aïsha is the new girl in class. And she’s an Indian. Boaz is sure of it. Aïsha speaks a different language. He can’t understand her, but he can understand her drawings. Then Boaz’s dad and teacher decide that he should skip a year. Because he needs more of a ‘challenge’. But is that what Boaz wants, just when he has found Aisha?
The media on Don’t tell me what I am: ‘The incredibly clever, seemingly light-hearted Don’t tell me what I am wins the reader over with a story about family, friendship and loss that is sometimes wise and incisive, at other times colourful and bellyachingly funny. Giggle, cry and get up again.’ – de Volkskrant ‘Her sentences glide and flow. Erna Sassen has an almost mindboggling feeling for language.’ – NRC Handelsblad
Also by Erna Sassen: Don’t tell me what I am
Published in Germany by Freies Geistesleben
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Original title: Een indiaan als jij en ik 15 x 22 cm | 128 pages
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Paul van Loon
The Horror Handbook non-fiction age 10+
• All there is to know about vampires, werewolves, witches, ghosts, zombies and other creatures • Learn the art of horror from the horror master himself: Paul van Loon • English edition well received in the UK
How do you become a werewolf? Where can you find the most infamous haunted castle? What is zombie powder? And what should you do if you meet a vampire? Nobody can answer these questions better than Paul van Loon, the horror master. At the request of hundreds of readers, he wrote this handbook full of background information about the creepy creatures that inhabit his books. So that you know what to do if your teacher suddenly grows fangs…
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Original title: Het Griezelhandboek 14,8 x 21,5 cm | 176 pages Rights sold: German, French, Spanish, Italian and World-English www.leopold.nl rights@leopold.nl
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Koos Meinderts & Annette Fienieg art picture book all ages
Liebermann: Mr Max’s Sea
• Germany’s best impressionist painter • Koos Meinderts has a keen eye for the emotions of his main characters. Annette Fienieg manages to imbue her illustrations with a touch of happiness.
Mr Max sketches everywhere he goes and everyone he meets. Even the girls from the Orphanage. He wants to paint a portrait of one of them, but the matron won’t let him. She will let him borrow an outfit so that he can paint a smartly dressed girl. ‘No,’ says Mr Max. ‘I paint people as they are.’ Martha’s mother is dead. What about her father? ‘He’s at sea,’ she says. The sea she has never seen. Mr Max takes the girls to the beach for a day.
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Original title: Liebermann – De zee van meneer Max 23,8 x 28,6 cm | 32 pages
• A fairy tale by world-famous mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn, illustrated by Sieb Posthuma
For three days Zarja has been looking for her owl. Where has he gone? Does his disappearance have anything to do with the island of Orplid? Everyone says it is haunted. Or does it have something to do with the mother she never knew? Zarja does what the owl has always forbidden her to do: she travels to Orplid...
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Original title: Zarja en de uil van Orplid 21 x 28 cm | 48 pages www.leopold.nl rights@leopold.nl
The media on Zarja and the Owl of Orplid: ‘Christianne Stotijn digs deep between the lines and musical notes.’ – Trouw ‘Mysterious and thrilling fairy tale.’ – www.mooiboek.nl ‘Beautiful and colourful story.’ – www.leestafel.info
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Gideon Samson Zeb fiction age 10+
• Award-winning author • An ode to boundless imagination
This is the story of our class. It is the story of Imara, Ravi, Jayden, Katinka, Noepy, Max, Ziva, Lev, Annabelle, Meral, Wies, Ozzie and everybody else. And Ariane, of course. Did we mention that Ariane is a zebra? It’s not particularly important, if that’s what you were thinking, but at least you know. We are Miss Cato’s class.
The media on Zeb: ‘This cherishable children’s book is a work of art in itself.’ – Het Parool ‘Zeb is exciting, playful, funny, well-thought-out, subtle and intelligent.’ – de Volkskrant ‘Zeb is already one of the best Children’s books of 2018’ – Trouw
Also by Gideon Samson:
Vlag & Wimpel (Flag & Pennant)
Zilveren Griffel (Silver Pencil)
Zilveren Griffel (Silver Pencil)
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Original title: Zeb 17 x 24 cm | 96 pages
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Tonke Dragt
When the Stars Sing fiction age 11-100
• Collection of short stories with full-colour collages and illustrations by queen of fantasy Tonke Dragt • Lose yourself in a world full of heroism and stardust
A prince who wants to keep his dreams secret. A prince for whom no riddle is too difficult. The secret of the singing stars... Tonke Dragt takes her readers into her archive of well-known and previously unpublished stories. For the first time, and in a personal way, she compiles them in an arrangement that offers an insight into the essence of her writing: from fairy tales, sagas and riddles, to exciting adventures, science fiction and enchanting stories of the night. All the pictures are by Tonke Dragt herself: collages, illustrations and paintings from a period of more than sixty years. Many of the stories are also accompanied by an account of how they came to be written. This book thus not only tells the stories, but also reveals the stories behind the stories. The media on When the Stars Sing: ‘This body of work resounds with the singing of the stars. Reading Dragt feels like looking through a kaleidoscope. Switching perspectives. Shifting colours. Changing patterns. Who wouldn’t want to keep spinning? Who wouldn’t want to be able to hear the singing of the stars in the song of the crickets?’ – NRC Handelsblad
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Original title: Als de sterren zingen 15 x 22 cm | 176 pages www.leopold.nl rights@leopold.nl
‘Wonderful insight into Dragt’s poetics’ – Het Parool ‘The way in which Tonke Dragt brings her very best stories together reveals her enormous love for storytelling.’ – de Volkskrant
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Emiel de Wild
When Darkness Embraces You fiction age 13+
• For A Brother’s Secret De Wild won a Zilveren Griffel (Silver Pencil) and the Young Jury Debut Prize
The knife feels heavy in my hand. It is brand new. We saved for it with supermarket coupons. The blade is long and wide and made of a single piece of metal. It cannot break. No matter what you do with it.
The media on A Brother’s Secret and Who I Am: ‘Flawless debut’ – NRC Handelsblad
His mother covers it up with nice words, his best friend tries to block it out, and his sister mustn’t find out about it. Fedde himself prefers not to talk about what happened to him. Because if he knows one thing for sure, it’s this: always keep others at a distance. One morning he bids farewell to the people he loves, without realising it. Just before he walks out the door, he grabs a knife. Some things just have to be done. Especially when you’re a boy. If his plan doesn’t work out, Fedde wants to stop. But if you seek out the darkness, it won’t let you go that easily.
‘Emiel de Wild’s debut A Brother’s Secret was awarded a Zilveren Griffel (Silver Pencil) and the Young Jury Debut Prize. To win recognition from both a professional jury and a children’s readership is no mean feat.’ – Trouw
‘Who I Am is an intelligent, well-written boys’ novel that, in a dark and subdued way, gets you thinking and yet is so witty in places that it makes you laugh’ – de Volkskrant
Also by Emiel de Wild:
German rights sold to Freies Geistesleben, Slovenian rights sold to Zalozba Zala
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Original title: Als het donker je omhelst 15 x 22 cm | 176 pages
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Lydia Rood Nobody’s Girl fiction age 15+
• Daring novel • ‘Pacey and unputdownable. Fierce, funky and engaged. She goes precisely where her fellow YA authors daren’t or can’t go. Thrilling, exciting, witty, energetic. Rood gives one hell of a right hook’ – de Volkskrant • ‘Rood does not make things easy for her main character, her readers or herself, but it’s also true that she shines when she makes things as difficult as possible.’ – NRC Handelsblad
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Original title: Niemands meisje 14 x 21,5 cm | 212 pages
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Liesbeth is committed to a psychiatric institution. Why? What’s wrong with her? And what happened on Valentine’s Day? A vulnerable girl emerges from Liesbeth’s story. A girl who grows up in an extraordinary family. A girl who sees and understands more than the people around her. A girl who really wants only one thing: someone who will listen to her.