Bologna 2020
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Picture book Fleur van der Weel
Naughty Kittens QUERIDO
A funny and endearing picture book about two little cats who do all kinds of things that are not allowed: they sit on the kitchen counter, secretly eat out of the pan, bring other animals into the house and make a mess everywhere. But no matter how naughty they are, they’re still irresistible!
• Heart-warming story and illustrations • For cat lovers of all ages • By Zilveren Penseel winner Fleur van der Weel
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Hardback | 20 x 22.6 cm | 96 pages Published in April 2020 4+
Picture book Françoise Beck
Seven Little Penguins Seven little penguins have to go to bed, but they’re not in the mood for sleeping. So they sneak outside to play and find themselves going on a journey. Hey, what’s that over there? It’s a piece of red thread. The penguins decide to follow it... But the thread is always just that little bit too fast for them. It travels across the ice and through the water. Wide-awake toddlers everywhere will recognize themselves in this book!
• A great debut by a young illustrator • Ideal for reading aloud at bedtime • A happy, cuddly story
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Hardback | 21 x 27.5 cm | 48 pages Published in October 2019
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Bologna 2020 4+
Picture book Annie M.G. Schmidt & Noëlle Smit
• A happy picture book about a small problem with big consequences • An entertaining story by Annie M.G. Schmidt, winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award • With colourful illustrations by Noëlle Smit
The Midge on the Bridge
It’s busy on the bridge in Breukelen, very busy indeed. And more traffic is coming along all the time: cars, bikes, mopeds, animals, an ice-cream man and his cart – and on it goes! It’s just about okay, but then a midge arrives. And that midge is the last straw. The bridge breaks in two! What to do? What to do?
Hardback | 18.8 x 25 cm | 32 pages Published in September 2019
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Die brug was tot nu toe nog helemaal heel, maar nou met die mug was het net iets te veel.
En zo kwam het dan dat van krikkerdekrak de ijzeren brug in twee helften brak.
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Picture book Tjibbe Veldkamp & Sebastiaan Van Doninck
• A picture book about a spectacular flying competition • Packed with funny details • Extra funny because the narrator doesn’t notice the cheating that’s going on – but the reader does! • The first collaboration between two awardwinning picture-book makers
The Fantastic Flying Competition Welcome to the Flying Competition for Birds! Ten teams cross the starting line. But during the race, one by one, all of the participants run into problems. Team Flamingo can’t get off the ground, Team Hawk leaves the plane by ejector seat, and Team Ostrich–Penguin crashes! What is going on? And why is Team Chicken the only team that’s not having any trouble? A fantastic picture book in which readers get to discover the true story of the race for themselves.
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Welkom bij De fantastische vliegwedstrijd voor vogels! Alle teams staan klaar voor de start, alle teams behalve één, want waar zijn de uiltjes? Team Uil is te laat! Hebben de nachtdieren zich wéér verslapen? Het aftellen begint:
drie… twee… één…
English translation available
Hardback | 25.5 x 34 cm | 32 pages Published in March 2020
QUERIDO CHILDREN’S BOOKS Contact details for Flanders Literature:
Contact details for the Dutch Foundation for Literature:
Flanders Literature, Generaal van Merlenstraat 30,
Dutch Foundation for Literature, Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89,
2600 Antwerp, Belgium
1018 vr Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Lien Devos, lien@flandersliterature.be
Agnes Vogt, a.vogt@letterenfonds.nl, phone + 31 20 520 73 00
and Elise Vanoosthuyse, elise@flandersliterature.be
Bologna 2020 6+
Picture book Jef Aerts & Merel Eyckerman
• An original story by prize-winner Jef Aerts • About the power of the imagination • With beautiful illustrations by Merel Eyckerman
Someone Else Every Day
Juno dresses as someone else every day. She can be the leader of an orchestra or a Brazilian chef, or even a party with decorations. Her little brother, Billy, plays along with her too. But Juno’s imagination has no limits and her games become wilder and wilder. It’s time to take a break!
Op maandag is ze de baas van het orkest. Ze slaat de maat met haar vork. Kleine Billy trommelt met de lepels op zijn bord.
English translation available
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Juno is elke dag iemand anders. Ze wordt wie of wat ze maar wil.
Hardback | 19.5 x 25 cm | 32 pages Published in February 2020 6+
Beginning readers Maranke Rinck & Martijn van der Linden
• A hilarious series about a moody little popcorn man • Funny, exciting and imaginative • With lots and lots of illustrations • Words and pictures complement each other perfectly
Bob Popcorn When Ellis makes popcorn in the microwave one day, something strange happens. One of the bits of corn doesn’t pop, but instead gets bigger and bigger and grows arms and legs and a face. The corn man is called Bob, and he’s not the easiest of guys. He doesn’t sleep, eats everything in sight and is pretty moody. After a while, Ellis decides that she’s had enough. Bob has to go, but how do you get rid of a giant piece of living popcorn who has temper tantrums? Sample translation available
Ik maak echt supergoeie popcorn. Toch doe ik niks bijzonders. Gewoon, precies wat op het pak staat.
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Stap 1 Leg een zakje mais in de magnetron. Stel de juiste tijd in.
Rights sold: World-English (Levine Querido) Stap 2 Wacht rustig af tot alle korrels zijn gepoft.
Stap 3 Doe de popcorn in een kom.
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Hardback | 14 x 20 cm | 160 pages
QUERIDO CHILDREN’S BOOKS
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‘The fun bursts off the pages – and it’s contagious.’ – jaapleest.nl
Bologna 2020 6+/8+
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Fiction for young readers
Fiction for young readers
Middle-grade fiction
Robbert-Jan Henkes
Anna Woltz
Henry Lloyd
Lieke’s Gang
Shark Teeth
Flin, or the Lost Love of a Unicorn
• 31 imaginative stories about a quirky little girl and her gang of friends • Familiar, funny and a touch absurd • To read aloud or read alone • With illustrations by comics genius Aart Clerkx
• An adventurous story about family, friendship and growing up • Shark Teeth was the Dutch Children’s Book Week Gift with a print run of 350,000 copies • Anna Woltz’s work has been translated in nineteen languages
• An exciting and funny story about friendship, jealousy and budding love • For boys and girls aged 10 and up • With funny illustrations • Nominated for the Woutertje Pieterse Prijs 2020
Lieke and her gang of friends, all girls, meet up every day on their bench in the street. It’s where they come up with their rules for doing nothing, discover how hypnosis works, and think of the best birthday present ever. That’s if they ever get around to anything, because Yara just wants to play football, Lotte would rather be reading her comic, and Amira is always juggling. It’s just as well that Lieke is there to keep the gang together!
Atlanta has a crazy plan. For the most important journey of her life, she needs twelve slices of bread, four bananas, her night braces and some Christmas lights. She’s only just set off when she crashes into Finley’s bike. Finley has run away from home and only has two shark teeth with him. Was meeting him bad luck for Atlanta – or was it perhaps good luck?
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Flin grows up in the forest, far away from the world of people. He is raised by two eagles, and Mono, the twoheaded dwarf, teaches him how to survive in the wild. When Mono tells Flin about human beings, Flin is delighted and decides to go in search of them. On his journey, he meets a unicorn, who is hopelessly in love with a girl from a neighbouring village. Flin falls for her too, and this is the beginning of constant rivalry. But when the village is attacked by a dragon and the girl gets kidnapped, the unicorn and Flin have to work together.
‘Fresh, honest and sometimes funny.’ – Trouw
‘Everything a good story needs, plus a large dose of humour.’ – Hebban.nl
Paperback | 11.5 x 19 cm | 96 pages Published in September 2019
Paperback | 13.5 x 21.5 cm | 240 pag. Published in November 2019
Paperback | 14 x 21.5 cm | 160 pages Published in February 2020
Rights sold: German (Carlsen Verlag), Slovene (Mis Zalozba)
QUERIDO CHILDREN’S BOOKS Contact details for Flanders Literature:
Contact details for the Dutch Foundation for Literature:
Flanders Literature, Generaal van Merlenstraat 30,
Dutch Foundation for Literature, Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89,
2600 Antwerp, Belgium
1018 vr Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Lien Devos, lien@flandersliterature.be
Agnes Vogt, a.vogt@letterenfonds.nl, phone + 31 20 520 73 00
and Elise Vanoosthuyse, elise@flandersliterature.be
Bologna 2020 10+
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Middle-grade fiction
Middle-grade fiction
Middle-grade fiction
Simon van der Geest
Jeska Verstegen
Mirjam Elias
The Project – Or How I Got Lost in the Jungle
I’ll Keep You Close
Deserted Hotel
Sample translation available
Sample translation available
• Captivating, touching and funny • About the search for a biological father • By two-time Gouden Griffel winner Simon van der Geest Eva (12) doesn’t know anything about her father. So when she has to do a school project on a subject she’d like to know more about, she chooses ‘biological fathers’ as her theme. The more Eva gets into her project, the more certain she becomes that she wants to meet her father. When she discovers that he probably lives in Suriname, she secretly calls in the help of a television show. The result is an exciting and eventful quest. How far will she go to find her father? Rights sold: German (Thienemann-Esslinger Verlag) ‘A plot-driven story with depth.’ – NRC Handelsblad ‘A beautifully thick, cinematic adventure.’ – Trouw Hardback | 13.5 x 21.5 cm | 296 pages Published in November 2019
• A moving portrait of an 11-year-old girl • A true story about the consequences of war and persecution for future generations • Written beautifully and sensitively Jeska does not like the world of adults and would rather remain a child forever in her own dreamy little world. But from the moment her confused grandmother accidentally calls her Hesje, growing up seems unavoidable. Who is this Hesje? Is it the girl in the photo in Grandma’s album? Why doesn’t her mother want to say anything about it? All of these questions open a door into another world. ‘As a reader, you slowly enter into this girl’s mind. And not only into her mind, but also her world, her family and her story. An important story that should never be forgotten.’ Jan Paul Schutten (author of The Mystery of Life: How Nothing Became Everything) Hardback | 13.5 x 21.5 cm | 176 pag Published in March 2020
• A moving and impressive book about friendship, growing up and survival in World War II • Seen through the eyes of a young boy • Includes eight pages of historical photographs Ronny is living in Amsterdam with his parents and sister when the Second World War starts. Quickly everything around him changes: a wall is built in the middle of Ronny’s school, to separate the Jewish children from the non-Jewish children. And his father is talking to two German officers in secret. Gradually Ronny finds out that his father has an important role in the Resistance. When Ronny discovers a boy hiding in a basement on the other side of the street, he decides he is old enough to have his own secret. From that moment on he goes to visit Willy every day, but when Ronny falls ill, everything starts to go terribly wrong.
Paperback | 13.5 x 21.5 cm | 296 pag Published in 2020
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Bologna 2020 12+
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Young-adult fiction
Young-adult fiction
Young-adult fiction
Rob Ruggenberg
Herman van de Wijdeven
Marleen Nelen
Swamp Witch
Liar, Liar
All Things Light
• A historical adventure about a girl fighting for her freedom • A free-spirited girl as protagonist • An original setting: the Netherlands in the Bronze Age • By Young Jury favourite Rob Ruggenberg
• About lies and reality • A familiar theme: an angry teen • A look at the issues involved in parental separation
• A timeless story about love and freedom in the colourful world of the circus • History brought to life
On the morning of her thirteenth birthday, Charlie discovers that her father has left for good. She feels betrayed and abandoned. Her friend would rather talk about something else, and a girl at school is really getting under her skin. To make matters worse, Charlie has to go to a ‘problem doctor’, because it’s so hard for her to ‘come out of her shell’. And then Charlie blows a fuse – and makes a decision that will turn the lives of everyone around her upside down.
A small travelling circus tries to survive under the rule of Mussolini. The brothers Berio and Luca perform a breathtaking act on the trapeze. They trust each other completely, until Yulia comes into their lives. She causes a crack in the relationship between the two brothers.
When she runs into trouble with a family member, Aïn fights back and accidentally kills him. She knows no one will believe that she is innocent, so she runs away. But where can a girl go, all alone, in the Bronze Age Netherlands? For this story, Rob Ruggenberg took inspiration from the discovery of a Bronze Age grave in a place where he often played as a child. Inside that grave were twelve children and adults who had suffered a violent death. What can have happened all those centuries ago?
Hardback | 15 x 21 cm | 288 pages Published in April 2020
Herman van de Wijdeven made his debut with Zoals het is gebeurd, which was nominated for the Boekenleeuw and won the five-yearly Lavski Prize for the best children’s book.
Paperback | 14 x 21.5 cm | 176 pages Published in January 2020
‘A magnificent story.’ – Hans Hagen ‘A powerful story about love, perseverance and willpower that will leave no one untouched.’ – **** Pluizer Rights sold: French (La Joie de Lire) Sample translation available
Paperback | 13.5 x 21.5 cm | 272 pag. Published in September 2019
QUERIDO CHILDREN’S BOOKS Contact details for Flanders Literature:
Contact details for the Dutch Foundation for Literature:
Flanders Literature, Generaal van Merlenstraat 30,
Dutch Foundation for Literature, Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89,
2600 Antwerp, Belgium
1018 vr Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Lien Devos, lien@flandersliterature.be
Agnes Vogt, a.vogt@letterenfonds.nl, phone + 31 20 520 73 00
and Elise Vanoosthuyse, elise@flandersliterature.be
Bologna 2020 All ages
Picture book Charlotte Dumas & Bibi Dumon Tak
• A picture book about sleeping and daydreaming animals • With touching photos by internationally renowned artist Charlotte Dumas • Written by Bibi Dumon Tak, the winner of the Theo Thijssen Prize
Dreamers Can a polar bear sleep underwater? What does a dog dream about when it’s sleeping in the sun? Can foals fly in their sleep? Or trot over the water? These are questions prompted by the photographs of Charlotte Dumas. The text invites readers of all different ages to dream like an animal too – like a dog, a horse, a wolf. And who wouldn’t want to do that?
Hardback | 22 x 25 cm | 64 pages Published in October 2019
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Charlotte Dumas has built up an international reputation with her photo series including police and army horses, wolves in the wild, tigers in captivity, stray dogs and working dogs. Bibi Dumon Tak won the threeyearly State Prize for Children’s Literature in 2018.
‘Beautiful, tender photos... brilliant.’ – De Standaard
Lampie and the Children of the Sea longlisted for the Carnegie Medal
28.6mm spine
‘Spectacular… A treasure trove of a book’ Hilary McKay, author of The Skylarks’ War
Every evening Lampie the lighthouse keeper’s daughter must light a lantern to warn ships away from the rocks. But one stormy night disaster strikes. The lantern goes out, a ship is wrecked and an adventure begins.
‘This middle grade jewel about a lighthouse keeper’s daughter is by turns as satisfyingly dark and light as the best fairy story adventures.’ Julia Hale, Chair of Judges In disgrace, Lampie is sent to work as a maid at the Admiral’s Black House, where rumour has it that a monster lurks in the tower. But what she finds there is stranger and more beautiful than any monster.
Soon Lampie is drawn into a fairytale adventure in a world of mermaids and pirates, where she must fight with all her might for friendship, freedom and the right to be different.
Pushkin Children’s
• The first book in translation to be longlisted for the Carnegie Medal • Translated by Laura Watkinson 20/03/2019 16:42
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