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Highlights Spring 2022

Marit Törnqvist

Tortoise and I

4 years and up Picture book

Pim Lammers & Sanne te Loo

I Miss Milo

• a touching story with a hopeful ending

• with heart-warming, sensitive illustrations

• an impressive new picture book by Marit Törnqvist

• about a lifelong connection and friendship

• with an endearing tortoise in the lead role

• an appealing story for readers of all ages

English translation available French rights under option Swedish and Farsi rights sold

Published April 2022

Hardback | 21x 23 cm | 64 pages

4 years and up Picture book

Noëlle Smit

By the Sea

4 years and up Picture book

• an atmospheric picture book that makes you long for the sun, the sea and the beach

• an ideal gift book, created by the illustrator of Teckel Tom

‘A book you can look at a thousand times without losing interest.’ – jaapleest.nl

‘Each of the pictures is a work of art, packed with beautiful colours, shapes, patterns and details.’ – NBD Biblion

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Published May 2022

Hardback | 24.5 x 28 cm | 32 pages

Published April 2022

Hardback | 22 x 25 cm | 32 pages

French rights under option

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Marije Tolman Egalus

Picture book of the Dutch Children’s Book Week 2022

When it’s quiet and cold outside, Grandpa Hedgehog tells his grandson about the Age of Speed, when the world was full of hustle and bustle. No one had time to stand still. Everything had to be higher, faster, farther, bigger, more beautiful, more, more, more! Egalus was the only one who did not join in. He preferred to stand still and keep the forest clean. But one day, he could no longer carry all the litter by himself… When the exhausted Egalus falls asleep at home, the other animals realise that this can’t go on any longer. And when he wakes up, the world is a very different place!

Also by Marije Tolman

• picture book

English translation available

Rights under option: World-English, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Farsi, Russian, Slovenian, Slovak, Spanish and Turkish

Published October 2022

Hardback | 24.5 x 32.7 cm | 32 pages

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Françoise Beck & Herman van de Wijdeven

I’ll Stay If I May

Help from an unexpected place

When rain starts to fall in the forest and then the wind begins to blow and finally there’s a storm, all the animals run. The ducks, the squirrels, the frogs… everyone flies or runs or hops back to their homes. Except for Maurice. He doesn’t have a home! All alone, he gets lost in the storm. But luckily, Mole is there. Deep underground, he isn’t bothered by the wind. But he can hear Maurice’s tears...

About Onder de wol:

‘A must-have picture book’ – chicklit.nl

‘A very successful debut’ – NBD Biblion

• about running and finding shelter

• by the creators of Onder de wol

4+ Picture book

An unforgettable animal portrait

Meet Shoebill. His head looks as big as a whale’s, his beak is more like a shoe, and his feet are huge. There’s nothing elegant about Shoebill, say the other birds. What does Shoebill think of them saying such unkind things about him? Nothing at all. He doesn’t even listen. He has better things to do.

Publication November 2022

Hardback | 21 x 27.5 cm | 40 pages

Rights under option: French and Korean

• a fantastic and funny animal fable

• about vanity and gossip

• for everyone who loves birds

Already published

Hardback | 21 x 28 cm | 40 pages

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Joukje Akveld & Piet Grobler Shoebill/Schoenbek

5+ Picture book

Benny Lindelauf & Marieke Nelissen

They Had Counted Their Sheep

An atmospheric Christmas story for the whole family

Like her brothers, Gili wants to become a shepherd, but her brothers aren’t sure about that. Aren’t girls too weak to look after sheep? To make matters worse, one cold December night, Gili lets her favourite sheep escape from the flock. Are her brothers going to be proved right?

In the pitch darkness of the hills around Bethlehem, Gili goes in search of her sheep. She had better not get lost or fall

8+ Non-fiction

Bibi Dumon Tak & Annemarie van Haeringen

Today I’m Going to Talk about the Anaconda

School presentations about animals by the queen of children’s non-fiction

In this book, animals give school presentations about other animals. The cleaner fish is an expert on the shark’s sharp teeth, and the fox is mainly interested in what the goose tastes like, while the zebra gives a talk all about black-and-white animals. And, as with every school presentation, there’s a chance to ask questions afterwards. Wild and fun!

into a ravine. And she’d rather not think about dangerous wolves at all...

• about a runaway sheep, a brave girl and a wolf who’s hungry enough for two

• by Woutertje Pieterse Prize winner

Benny Lindelauf

• with beautiful colour illustrations by Marieke Nelissen

Publication November 2022

Hardback | 17 x 24 cm | 56 pages

German rights under option

‘With this author and illustrator, it’s 100% enjoyment every time. What a truly brilliant book! – Friesch Dagblad

• animals giving school talks about other animals

• original, funny – and also true!

• by Bibi Dumon Tak, winner of the Theo Thijssen Prize

• fantastic illustrations by awardwinning artist Annemarie van Haeringen

Published October 2022

Hardback | 18.5 x 25 cm | 112 pages

English sample available

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Bart Moeyaert & Sebastiaan Van Doninck Morris

The new Moeyaert: a freezing yet heartwarming tale

There’s a good reason why Morris’s grandma’s dog is called Houdini: the creature is an escape artist. Morris has to go up the mountain near his grandma’s house to look for the dog. But just as he sets off on the journey home, carrying Houdini in his arms, snow starts tumbling from the sky. Up on the mountain, the north wind cuts through him. Then, to make matters worse, Houdini does what she likes to

All ages

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Ingrid Godon & Paul de Moor From Looking Came Seeing

Poetry in words and pictures

This is the story of a woman who is missing someone. He is gone forever, and the house is full of memories. Everything seems to have fallen silent. But looking and drawing brings light back into her life. The world that had closed with sadness opens up in a desire for new things.

As she drew and painted, something very special emerged from the hands of Ingrid Godon. All kinds of figures who were close to her came crowding in. Writer Paul de Moor was inspired by the

do best – she runs away again. At first, Morris has no idea what to do. But then someone else emerges from the white expanse — a boy with a big mouth and, at his side, a giant ram.

Published October 2022

Hardback | 17 x 20 cm | 64 pages

• a new gem by ALMA winner Bart Moeyaert

• a glowing adventure story about a boy, a runaway dog and lots and lots of snow

• with colour illustrations by Sebastiaan Van Doninck

images and placed them within a wideranging context.

English translation available Italian rights sold Rights under option: German, Spanish (Mexico), Swedish, French, Bulgarian, Estonian, Kroatian, Latvian, Norwegian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Complex Chinese, Slovenian

Published August 2022

Hardback | 21 x 26 cm | 80 pages

• a highlight in Ingrid Godon’s awardwinning body of work

• with words by the author of Witje (with Kaatje Vermeire) and of picture books about artists

• about farewell and hope

English translation available

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6+/8+

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Edward van de Vendel

Anoush Elman

Mishka

A touching story about a dwarf rabbit

When Roya and her parents and brothers finally get a house in the Netherlands, she thinks that a pet should also join the family. So, they get a cute white dwarf rabbit, and she names him Mishka. The whole family falls in love with him. Roya starts telling Mishka about when they had to flee their country. But she realises that she doesn’t remember anything like the whole story herself.

And then, one day, Mishka suddenly disappears.

A touching story by Edward van de Vendel and Anoush Elman, who also cowrote De gelukvinder, a YA book based on Anoush’s life story.

• about the love for a pet and about a family’s escape from a war zone

• to read aloud and for reading independently from the age of 8

• with beautiful colour illustrations by Annet Schaap

Rights under option: German, English, French, Italian, Macedonian

Published August 2022

Hardback | 13.5 x 19.5 cm | 152 pag.

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8+ Children’s book

Toon Tellegen & Igor Oleynikov

The Mammoth Would Have Liked to

7+ Children’s book

Evelien de Vlieger

I Never Win Anything

8+ Children’s book

Simon van der Geest & Karst-Janneke Rogaar Weather Wolf

New stories about the squirrel, the ant and the other animals

Many of the animals in Tellegen’s new collection are longing for change. The ostrich wants a neck that’s longer than the giraffe’s, the polar bear wishes it were really cold for once, and the elephant would like to stop falling out of trees. The mammoth would have really loved to learn to sing. But it’s too late now. Extinct means extinct…

• a collection of 25 new stories

• by the master of the animal story

• Oleynikov received the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2018

A feel-good story for beginning readers

At the school party, the unimaginable happens: Nelle wins first prize in the raffle! It’s a trip to a sunny island – her very first trip ever! She has a wonderful time there with her mum and dad, with the sea nearby and lots of good food. She also finds something priceless: a new friend! The week is over far too quickly. But Nelle really is very lucky indeed: a random twist of fate means they can’t go home yet.

• light and summery

• for beginning readers

• illustrated by Ruth De Jaeger

About Gibbe en de maandagman: ‘The first real Dutch counterpart to the Treehouse books (...) full of fun and nonsense – and that’s a compliment.’

– nrc.next

English sample available

Published September 2022

Hardback | 17.5 x 24 cm | 112 pages

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Already published Hardback | 13.5 x 19.5 cm | 96 pages

A wolf who, when there’s a full moon, turns into a... weatherman

Masha loves her friend Ivan. He’s the coolest of all the wolves. Masha wants to ask him if he’ll be her wolf. But by the light of the full moon Ivan suddenly changes into… a thin and weedy human. Masha isn’t sure how she feels about him anymore. Ivan may be puny, but it turns out that he can predict the weather: he’s a weather wolf! The other wolves just laugh at him. Even when he warns them that there’s a big storm on the way. And what about Masha? Will she believe her Ivan?

• a funny and exciting story for beginning readers

• by two-time Gouden Griffel winner

Simon van der Geest

• full of puns and original twists

Rights under option: French, German and Polish

Publication: August 2022

Hardback | 14 x 20 cm | 80 pages

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9+ Children’s book

Hans Hagen & Martijn van der Linden Lightning Child

9+ Children’s book

Joke van Leeuwen I Am HERE!

10+ Non-fiction

Daan Remmerts de Vries

Behind the Trees Stood a Lion

Two great masters, one miraculous child

It’s a miracle! Yoko is struck by lightning during a storm. When she comes round, she has a stone in her hand that she can use to heal people. The news spreads like wildfire. Sick people flock to see her, and the money comes pouring in. But the long days and all the misery she sees start to wear Yoko out. She’d love to throw the stone away, but every day there are queues of desperate people at the door... Yoko is not the only one who gets to speak. The lightning, the stone and a bathtub also have voices in this story, providing relief and surprising twists

• a compelling story based on facts • brilliantly told by Gouden Griffel winner Hans Hagen

• with attractive colour illustrations by Gouden Penseel winner Martijn van der Linden

‘Hagen is the uncrowned king of rhythmic language.’ – jaapleest.nl

English sample available

Published June 2022

Hardback | 15 x 23 cm | 192 pages

Sleeping on the roof of an office block

After school, Jona always goes to her dad’s office. While he’s hard at work, Jona roams the building. On the thirtieth floor, she discovers the steps to the roof, where she falls asleep one afternoon. When she wakes up, the building is deserted. And there’s water everywhere, right up past the second floor. Everyone else has been evacuated, but they’ve forgotten Jona... Jona comes up with a plan to get people’s attention for when they come looking for her. But when are they going to come?

• by award-winning author and illustrator Joke van Leeuwen

• a captivating story about a brave and inventive girl

• a clever balance of serious and light

‘A classic Van Leeuwen: she tells the story in words and pictures, she lightens a serious theme with lots of humour and addresses deeper questions about life through everyday observations.’ *****

– De Standaard

German rights under option

Published September 2022 Hardback | 15 x 20 cm | 192 pages

A nature diary about travelling through the wilderness

Coming face to face with tigers and lions in the Indian jungle. Risking your life on the edge of a cliff for a photograph of a famous albatross. Two weeks camping in the middle of nowhere to watch rare otters on the Shetland Islands. Sailing in a small boat around the Isle of Man, in search of basking sharks. Daan Remmerts de Vries describes the journeys he’s taken to see special animals in such an accurate and eloquent way that it feels as if you’re there in person

• by the winner of the Theo Thijssen Prize

• twelve gripping accounts full of fascinating observations

• with lots of beautiful colour

Already published

Hardback | 16 x 20 cm | 160 pages

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10+ Children’s book

Marjolijn Hof Madame Petrova’s Cards

15+ Young Adult

Jelmer Soes D.I.

The long-awaited sequel to Lepelsnijder

Afraid of what the fortune-teller Madame Petrova has predicted, Silke has fled with her twin brother, Janis. She finds it hard sleeping outdoors, and it’s not even winter yet. Then they meet a married couple who travel from market to market in a covered wagon. The woman reads cards for people who want to know what the future will bring, and the man has a bear that can dance. Silke wants to join them and to learn how to read cards herself, hoping that it will help her to conquer her fear of the prediction. But Janis is suspicious. Can they stay together? Or will they go their separate ways?

• exciting, atmospheric and with a great conclusion

• standalone sequel to Lepelsnijder, which was critically acclaimed and sold over 7,000 copies

A YA novel about the search for a donor father

Sam is 17 when his parents tell him that he and his brother were conceived with the help of two different anonymous donors. Shock, anger, amazement –emotions race through Sam’s body. Is his dad still his dad? What does it mean that he and Kai are half-brothers? And what does this say about who Sam himself really is? He knows only one way to get a grip on the situation: he’s going to do everything in his power to find his donor.

When he was already an adult, Jelmer Soes found out that he was conceived by donor insemination (D.I.). He discovered that the doctor who treated his mother was himself the donor. This gynaecologist is now known to have fathered more than 50 children.

• a gripping YA novel that will give readers lots to think and talk about

• based on Jelmer Soes’s own experiences

‘Marjolijn Hof once again demonstrates that she is among the very best of Dutch children’s writers.

– Noordhollands Dagblad

Published October 2022

Hardback | 15 x 21.5 cm | 296 pages

• lots of attention in the Dutch national press

14+ YA novel

Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem Daughter of Doom

Published in November 2022

Paperback | 13.5 x 21.5 cm | 296 pag.

A unique historical YA novel about the Vikings

Denmark, 870 AD: Yrsa is the heathen daughter of a Frisian slave and a Danish helmsman. When the men of her village return one day with a high-ranking hostage on board their ship, Yrsa is ordered to look after her. Although the attitudes of Yrsa and the wealthy Sister Job are almost entirely incompatible, a friendship develops between the two. But when Sister Job kills a Danish savage, they have to run away together across the unpredictable sea. Is it possible to escape the vengeance of the Danes and their gods?

• by the author of IJzerkop

• two strong girls in the main roles

• humorous and thrilling

About IJzerkop:

‘It’s as if you were there yourself.’ – De Standaard ****

‘A cast-iron book that has everything it takes to become a classic. – Jury report, Boekenleeuw 2019

Righs under option: English, Italian, Slovenian

Already published Hardback | 13.5 x 21.5 cm | 304 pag.

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Recent rights sold

German edition published by Carlsen Verlag

Italian, Korean, Slovenian and Swedish rights sold

English edition published by Levine Querido

Italian and Slovenian rights old

Italian edition published by Sinnos

French edition published by La Partie Korean rights sold

English edition published by Tate UK, French edition published by Alice Jeunesse

Italian rights sold

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Recent rights sold: Frysk, Macedonian and Vietnamese

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