Ploegsma News guest of honour Holland and Flanders are Guest of Honour at the 2016 Frankfurt Book Fair. Several of our authors will be presenting their work during the fair next year. Of course we will keep you informed! movie rights sold!
mees kees – third movie 600.000 visitors!
reprinted within 4 months
The Pirates Next Door will be adapted for the screen by the Dutch creative film-making company Revolver Amsterdam. The Pirates Next Door is the first book in a hilarious series. Besides being very funny, it’s also about friendship and being different.
visit to brazil
Nominee Dutch Children’s Book Award 2015
Rights sold to Germany (Oetinger)
Janny van der Molen has visited Brazil to promote the Portuguese edition of Outside it’s war – Anne Frank and her world. This touching book was also published in France by Bayard Presse.
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
Wibautstraat 133, 1097 DN Amsterdam, Netherlands rights@ploegsma.nl www.ploegsma.nl www.singel262rights.nl/childrensbooks Rights manager Luciënne van der Leije lucienne.vanderleije@wpgmedia.nl
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Marie-Claire Loudon Animals novelty picture book ages 1 and up
Open this book and enter the world of animals. Fluffy, cute and cuddly ones, big wild and dangerous ones. Eight small booklets inside show pets, farm animals, zoo animals and many more. Point at the pictures and say the words! When Marie-Claire Loudon wanted to buy her children books with first words, she noticed they were all very similar. That’s why she decided to create her own book, together with designer Dominique van Hattem.
frankfurt 2015
Original title: Dieren 24 x 31 cm | fold-out book with eight small booklets To be published in January 2016 www.ploegsma.nl rights@ploegsma.nl
• Interactive and fresh • Early learning • Untearable booklets inside
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Adrienne de Jonghe-Rouleau fiction ages 4 and up
Angel from here and there
• Warm and comforting • Coping with the loss of a loved one • Full-colour art work by Sabine Wisman
When Chrissy is allowed to leave her cloud and go down to earth, she is over the moon. On earth she gets wonderful parents, three jolly sisters and everything is just like she hoped it would be. But suddenly things are not going so well anymore: Chrissy becomes ill, very ill. Then one day the doctors tell her they don’t know how to make her better any more… Everybody around her is sad, but Chrissy is angry! Fortunately her family is always right there with her, and she with them, even when she has to leave earth and go back to heaven. Chrissy shows us that you are loved here and there and everywhere. ‘In a beatiful way the author makes it tangible for young children how life is a circle of coming and going, of being born and dying. And how in the end you can make the link between the earth and the world above the clouds as an angel from here and there, comforting the people who are left behind.’ – Pluizuit
frankfurt 2015
Original title: Engel van hier en daar 15,3 x 20,5 cm | 64 pages English and French translation available www.ploegsma.nl rights@ploegsma.nl
Adrienne de Jonghe-Rouleau wrote this book after her youngest daughter died of cancer at the age of 8. She hopes it will be a comfort to people who are grieving the loss of a loved one.
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Yehudi Menuhin & Martijn van der Linden The king, the cat and the violin picture book ages 5 and up
• Money vs. art: a very relevant tale!
Once upon a time there lived a king who had eight violinists and a wise cat called Joachim. And in his royal accounting room there were so many accountants that no-one could count them all. That is how this fairy tale begins, written by maestro violinist Yehudi Menuhin. It is a wise tale, which shows us what happens when the accountants are given the power, and music disappears because it is too expensive to keep the orchestra‌
frankfurt 2015
Original title: De koning, de kat en de viool 21,3 x 2,55 cm | 48 pages Art work rights only www.ploegsma.nl rights@ploegsma.nl
Menuhin wrote this story over 30 years ago, but it has never been more relevant than in this day and age. Martijn van der Linden made the fabulous art work.
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Reggie Naus
The Pirates Next Door: The Sandwick Zombie fiction ages 8 and up
• Sixth book in the series • Black en white illustrations by Mark Janssen
When Grandpa Blunderbuss dies, pirates from all over the world come to the funeral. Not because Grandpa was particularly well-liked, but because he has supposedly buried a treasure somewhere. And indeed, amongst his belongings a treasure map is found. But is Grandpa really dead…?
frankfurt 2015
Original title: De piraten van hiernaast: De zombie van Zandwijk 15 x 22 cm | 112 pages www.ploegsma.nl rights@ploegsma.nl
Praise for Reggie Naus’ work: ‘It’s not only suspenseful, but also very funny. His books are easy to read and full of hilarious, even absurd situations and humorous language.’ – www.leesplein.nl
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Marjon Hoffman Flora racks her brain fiction ages 8 and up
• 11th book in the series • Flora series: over 200,000 copies sold! • Black and white illustrations by Georgien Overwater
Rule #1: When you have to think of something nice to say about your horrible brother, you simply have think really hard. Flora is entering a competition in which you have to write down why you like you brother or sister so much. Flora doesn’t like her brother at all. But in order to win, she doesn’t mind racking her brain a bit – that is: a lot! 14 new and hilarious rules by Flora. ‘Contemporary, wise, funny, naughty. Perfect for girls of eight and up. And it must be said: it’s a great series.’ – Het Parool
frankfurt 2015
Original title: Floor denkt door 14,5 x 21,8 cm | 128 pages www.ploegsma.nl rights@ploegsma.nl
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Marjon Hoffman The Boskampi’s
a legendary mafia family fiction ages 9 and up
• Now a major film • Hilarious story • Black and white illustrations by Annet Schaap
When Rick Boskamp and his dorky dad move house, Rick sees this as an excellent opportunity to change their image. He just adds an i to their name and pretends his father is an Italian mafia boss. Soon the whole neighbourhood believes this, and his father has no clue why everyone is so polite to him all of a sudden…! The film De Boskampi’s was released in April 2015. Within two weeks over 100.000 people had gone to see it.
frankfurt 2015
Original title: De Boskampi’s 15 x 22 cm | 112 pages Rights sold: German (Carlsen Verlag) www.ploegsma.nl rights@ploegsma.nl
‘One of the best family films of the last few years.’ – De Telegraaf
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René van der Velde
Steve, inventor puts up a tent fiction ages 9 and up
Steve and his family go camping. That is quite an undertaking, but fortunately they have a real inventor on board. Steve makes sure they avoid the traffic jams around Paris, keeps his tent dry during a downpour and gets yummy fresh baguettes without going all the way to the bakery at the top of the hill. He even manages to win a prize at the campsite football tournament… without scoring a single goal!
frankfurt 2015
Original title: Stijn, uitvinder zet een tent op 14,5 x 21,8 cm | 128 pages German rights under option www.ploegsma.nl rights@ploegsma.nl
• Reprinted within three months! • Black and white illustrations by Georgien Overwater • Great for boys ‘Entertaining, funny and creative.’ – Pluizer ‘Van der Velde has a great, flowing style of writing. Full of typical boys’ jokes. The funny illustrations by Georgien Overwater are an asset.’ – Kinderboekenpraatjes
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Kristine Groenhart
Mulberry House: Keep it cool fiction ages 10 and up
It’s Marjolein’s second term at Mulberry House boarding school for girls. She befriends a new girl, who happens to be an Arabian princess. When they hear that the best students will be allowed on a skiing trip to Switzerland, Marjolein is determined to be one of the happy few. She hopes her new friend will also be able to come, not to mention her boyfriend from the neighbouring school...
frankfurt 2015
Original title: Mulberry House: Keep it cool 14,5 x 21,8 cm | 160 pages To be published in October 2015 www.ploegsma.nl rights@ploegsma.nl
• First book very succesful • Set in a British boarding school
Praise for the first Mulberry House book: ‘A worthy successor to Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers.’ – J/M voor Ouders (parenting magazine) ‘Recommended; keep some space on the bookshelf, because there will be more books in the series.’ – NBD Biblion (Dutch Library Association)
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Iris Stobbelaar
Stranders – Be careful what you wish for…
fiction ages 10 and up
• A real page-turner! • Evocative writing • Reminiscent of Cornelia Funke’s Inkheart
Josh always has to babysit his younger sister Katy. One day he is so fed up, he literally wishes her gone. Katy disappears to a strange and dangerous world. A world born from the imagination of others who have wished someone away. This world is inhabited by bizarre monsters and by ‘Stranders’: people who have been wished away and never been rescued. Josh must go and find Katy or she too will become a Strander. And so will he if he doesn’t succeed… This fast paced novel reads like a roller coaster ride. But it’s more than just an amazing adventure story, it’s also a story of courage and love as Josh slowly changes from someone who just wants to go home to someone who genuinely loves his sister and wants to rescue her from the terrible place he’s imagined for her.
frankfurt 2015
Original title: Stranders 14,5 x 21,8 cm | 448 pages To be published in November 2015 www.ploegsma.nl rights@ploegsma.nl
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Janny van der Molen
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Genius! – Clever people who made the world a better place fiction ages 10 and up
• ‘Faction’ • Full colour illustrations by Els van Egeraat
Does the earth circle the sun, or is it the other way round? What is DNA actually made of? And how did Darwin develop his famous theory of evolution?
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Discover how Louis Pasteur saves the life of a 9-year old boy who has rabies, with a vaccine he has only just developed and has not tested on humans yet. Feel the despair of Galileo Galilei when his book is banned by the church and he is no longer allowed to say out loud what he knows to be true. Get inspired by Marie Curie, who puts her own research aside and travels to the battlefields of World War I to help wounded soldiers with X-ray equipment. Janny van der Molen has succeeded in ‘translating’ complicated scientific information into stories that make the subjects come alive, so children can learn and understand more about some of the most important discoveries in our history.
• Galileo Galilei • Leonardo Da Vinci • Charles Darwin • Ada Lovelace • Louis Pasteur, Marie Curie • Alan Turing • Rosalind Franklin • Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
Geniaal! slimme mensen die de wereld beter maakten
Geniaal!
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Original title: Geniaal! Slimme mensen die de wereld beter maakten 16,5 x 23,5 cm | 336 pages www.ploegsma.nl rights@ploegsma.nl
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Guy Didelez
Because I wouldn’t kiss him ‘How my life was turned upside-down in only three seconds’ fiction ages 12 and up
14-Year old Hatice is stabbed on Valentine’s Day for the simple reason she refuses to kiss a boy she doesn’t even know. The knife hits an artery, and Hatice’s life is in danger. This book follows her during the first year after the attack, from the initial pain and panic and her stay in the hospital to the slow healing of the scars on her body and soul.
frankfurt 2015
Original title: Omdat ik niet wou kussen 14 x 21,5 cm | 256 pages To be published in October 2015 www.ploegsma.nl rights@ploegsma.nl
• Based on a true story • Over 250,000 Didelez-books sold
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Vrank Post Head shot fiction ages 13 and up
Monica is assaulted in the bike shed by a group of boys, led by the agressive Stevo. One of the boys doesn’t join in, but walks away. At first Monica is very angry with this Dylan because he didn’t help her, but in spite of everything they become friends. Together they devise a plan to take revenge on Stevo. Vrank Post works at a youth penitentiary. His debut novel Bad boys for life was nominated for the Young Jury Prize.
frankfurt 2015
Original title: Head shot 14,5 x 21,8 cm | 192 pages To be published in November 2015 www.ploegsma.nl rights@ploegsma.nl
• Gritty YA novel • Appeals to boys
Praise for Vrank Post: ‘Post knows no constraint or taboos in his descriptions of youth culture. He doesn’t make it prettier than it is, nor does he look down on it from above, as some authors do.’ – Jaapleest.nl