Volt Children's Books Rights Guide - Fall 2022

HOW TO DRAW CUTE

Leon Römer

Learn how to draw kawaii in simple steps

Learn how to draw the cutest avocados, toasters, pizzas and ghosts.

In How To Draw Cute! Leon Römer teaches you how to make adorable drawings in Japanese kawaii style in just a few simple steps. You’ll learn how to add eyes to sandwiches, draw prickly cactuses and colour your drawings for maximum cuteness.

Not only does this book teach you how to draw adorable food, cuddly creatures, and the cutest plants and objects, it also includes tips on the best types of pencils, techniques for easy tracing and ideas for capturing the sweetest expressions on paper.

How To Draw Cute is for beginner drawers who love a good dose of Japanese kawaii.

Impress yourself with your drawing ability by following simple steps

perfect gift for offline creativity!

Leon Römer is an artist and illustrator. He graduated from the St. Joost School of Art and Design and makes art from walls, trams and cars. His clients include the Dutch National Railway, Samsung, McDonald’s and H&M. For the Dutch public broadcaster, NPO, he presented The Comic Strip Show, where he teaches kids how to draw comic strips. Most of Leon’s cute drawings are also for sale as pins.

Paperback with flaps,

cm, 96 Pages,

SUMMER ACTIVITY BOOK

Fiep Westendorp

Make the most of your holiday with Fiep’s summer activity book!

Hooray, it’s summer vacation! Take this delightful activity book with you to the pool, in the car, at the kitchen table or on the balcony. It’s full of puzzles, rhymes, stories, colouring pages, games and crafts—all with the wonderful illustrations of Fiep Westendorp.

— The latest from Fiep – a delightful summer vacation activity book! Plenty of puzzles, colouring pages and pictures for hours of fun

Generations of children have grown up with the illustrations of Fiep Westendorp

She is the renowned artist behind beloved children’s book characters like Jip and Jan neke, the cats Pim and Pom and Tow-Truck Pluck. Even today, her illustrations are a delight for young and old. www.fiepwestendorp.nl

Cover Wietske Lute,

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TIM THE LITTLE FOREST RANGER

Jan Paul Schutten and Emanuel Wiemans

A delightful picture book full of short stories—perfect for bedtime!

MORE THAN 10.000 COPIES SOLD!

Tim’s dad is a forest ranger. He’s taught Tim all about the forest and the animals that live in it. When Tim gets a real forest ranger uniform and a ‘Turbo trapper’ for his birthday, he becomes a real forest ranger just like his dad. There are all kinds of things to do in the forest—like building forts and stomping in puddles. But will Tim be able to help an injured jackdaw get back on its feet? Luckily he can count on the help of his friend Tippi, who might want to become a forest ranger too.

Jan Paul Schutten knows ‘the real’ Ranger Tim. They spent hours walking through the forest and heath together, and Tim shared all kinds of stories from his job as a forest ranger. He also told Jan Paul how he used to stomp in puddles as a kid, how he always dreamed of becoming a ranger, and how he made friends with Hansie the jackdaw. These stories are the inspiration behind the adventures of Tim the Little Forest Ranger.

Written by Golden Paintbrush winner Jan Paul Schutten

Join Tim as he learns all about the forest and the animals that live in it

Tim Hogenbosch became known as Forest Ranger Tim through his tweets about nature and showing people around the forest. Since May 2020, he has been presenting the children’s television programme Animal Brigade on NPO Zappelin.

Jan Paul Schutten writes non-fiction books on all sorts of subjects. His books Children of Amsterdam and The Mystery of Every Living Thing were both awarded the Golden Paintbrush.

Emanuel Wiemans graduated from Utrecht School of the Arts and has since worked as an illustrator, animator and storyboard artist.

TIM THE LITTLE FOREST RANGER: THE BOSS OF THE WOODS

Jan Paul Schutten and Emanuel Wiemans

From a park ranger pony to a game of checkers

Lots of things are happening in the woods patrolled by Tim the little forest ranger. With his friend Tippi and his faithful jackdaw Hansie at his side, Tim is ready for more exciting adventures. No matter what kind of situation they find themselves in, they always come up with a creative solution. Whether it’s vandals in the park, a vicious poacher or noisy motocross racers, the little rangers are able to outsmart them all. Of course, there are plenty of good things going on too. When you know how to have fun in nature, the forest is as thrilling as an amusement park. Once you’ve read all of Tim’s stories, there’s only one thing left for you to do: head out into the woods yourself!

— Back by popular demand: a new collection of stories about Tim and his friend Tippi!

More than 10,000 copies sold of Tim the Little Forest Ranger

Jan Paul Schutten always wanted to be a policeman or a cowboy, or maybe an astronaut, when he grew up. But as he got older, he changed his mind: he decided to become a writer. Jan Paul’s books are about all kinds of different subjects, but they are always very informative.

Emanuel Wiemans is an illustrator, animator and storyboard artist. He lives and works in Haarlem. After graduating from the Utrecht School of the Arts in 1995, Emanuel began his career as an illustrator.

Hardcover,

BORIS BAT

Susanne Roos and Aniek Bartels

The most delightful picture book pal of the year!

This is Boris. Boris Bat. He loves to eat mosquitos. If you ask him, there’s nothing better than a delicious mosquito cookie. He’s got incredible ears, razor-sharp teeth and is a champion flyer.

Did you know that a scale can be a trampoline? How much does a joke weigh anyway? Or friendship? And what do you do when you’re the only creature in the whole forest that hibernates in the winter?

This first book contains three original stories about Boris Bat and his friends. And sometimes the charming bat needs a little help from his readers: turn the book upside down, give it a shake and help Boris find his way. You might even want to do a little hanging upside down yourself. Because there’s always more to see and sometimes the world is just a little brighter from a different angle.

Susanne Roos is a theatre maker, dreamer and writer. Together with Jaap Robben, she tours the Netherlands and Belgium with their theatre company, Fien. She lives with her family on an old farm in Germany and enjoys working on the house. Previous books include The Kid’s Book of Forts.

Aniek Bartels is an illustrator and designer from Hilversum. She enjoys making everyday objects a little more fun. From clothes and stationery to packaging and cards—if you ask her, everything can use a little more colour and design. Her drawings have been used by Hema, Flow Magazine and Babboe.

MONDI

Milouska Meulens and Hedy Tjin

About Elin:

‘Elin is an authentic story with origi nal characters.’ – Jaap Friso

‘What a warm, rich, beautiful, soft, funny, visual book.’ – Romana Vrede

‘Put this book on your gift list for the kids in your life! And don’t for get to buy a copy for yourself!’

– Inclusive Children’s Book Club

Travel to Curaçao in this eerie island story

Our country’s flag billows in the wind from early Monday morning until Friday afternoon—blue for the sea and sky, yellow for the sun and sand, stars for the two islands.

The four brothers DeeJay, JayDean, Fenchi and Tonchi are growing up in Curaçao. After school, they explore the mondi, the wild backcountry full of secrets. There’s an abandoned house out there. People say it’s home to a bruado, a witch. And there’s definitely something strange about it. The wind doesn’t blow around it, and there’s an inexplicable puddle of water in front of the door. And what’s that giant bulbous thing in the manzanilla tree out front? Some kind of nest?

When the boys’ parents decide to move to the Netherlands, Tonchi and his brothers are so frustrated that they smash the nest out of the tree. Soon they’ll wish they hadn’t. Will the brothers be safe in Holland or…?

Second children’s book by Milouska Meulens with magical realist elements

— Wonderful, captivating descriptions inspired by Milouska’s childhood in Curaçao

With colourful illustrations by Hedy Tjin

Milouska Meulens was born in Curaçao but has always dreamt in Dutch. She works at Zembla, was once The Mole and until 2019 she was a presenter of television programmes such as the NOS Kids’ News, Kids for Kids and Early Birds. Nowadays she writes columns and presents her own evening programme on NPO-radio 1. Her successful debut, Elin, was published in October 2021.

Hedy Tjin is an illustrator and artist. Her work is very diverse—from murals and textiles to newspaper illustrations and children’s books. She is known for powerful colours and images that depict subjects of social value and shed light on complex sub jects in a compelling way.

FLASH AND THE ROOSTER HOTEL

Lotje van der Bie and Roos Pulskens

What do you do with seventeen crowing roosters when your neighbour wants to turn them into soup?

Flash is a lightning-quick inventor who’s always got a brilliant solution for every problem that comes up. And that’s a good thing, because his new neighbour, Mrs. Boenders, is creating all kinds of problems. Mrs. Boenders doesn’t like things that crow. She also doesn’t like stuff that washes up in the river—she calls it junk. And Flash’s garden is full of it because his dad needs it for his art… Having Mrs. Boenders as a neighbour makes for plenty of challenges—and also plenty of ingenious solutions. But Flash is always in a hurry and tends to overlook certain details, which means that not everything goes as smoothly as planned. Will Flash be able to keep his seventeen roosters?

— A witty debut about roosters (for people who love them and people who hate them)

Comes with a fun bookmark ruler

Full of detailed drawings of Flash’s inventions

Lotje van der Bie doesn’t collect roosters, but she does collect other kinds of animals. Formerly an actress in the hit comedy series Oppassen!!!, she’s proud to have published her first children’s book. For this book, she photographed Flash’s seventeen roosters and, of course, her own chickens as well.

Roos Pulskens usually only draws buildings for her work. But for her cousin’s first book she was willing to make an exception. Who wouldn’t want to create drawings of Flash’s brilliant inventions?

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ENZO AND THE BATTLE AGAINST THE ONIS

Thomas van Luyn and Sophie Pluim

Magical debut by comedian Thomas van Luyn

One day, Enzo receives a mysterious box in the mail. It’s made of a coppery metal and is about the size of a large eraser. When his cheeky friend Kira spins the little wheel for the first time, they discover that it’s actually some kind of zippo lighter, and it gives him a strange feeling.

It turns out that the lighter can send him to different rooftops in the city, which gets him into more trouble than he’d like. This is how he accidentally ends up in the house of his horrible teacher, Mr. Harry, and how he meets Ken, a boy standing on a roof with a cape, a stick and green rain boots.

Ken tells him that he’s hunting Onis—evil spirits that swoop into people’s houses and make them do bad things. Before Enzo knows it, he and his special lighter find themselves in a battle against the Onis. But how do you win a war against evil spirits when all you’ve got is a blanket for a cape and two friends who have no idea what they’re doing either?

Much anticipated in the Dutch press — Performances and interviews available on request

Poster and other marketing material available Online campaign Animated trailer for social media

Thomas van Luyn is a comedian, actor, programme creator and writer. He was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and grew up in Utrecht. For years, he has been the most read columnist in Volkskrant Magazine. Thomas tries to avoid hobbies because they have a tendency to become work. He lives with his family in Amsterdam.

Sophie Pluim graduated from the Utrecht School of the Arts and works as an illustrator for various publishers. She loves nature and likes to combine it with elements of history and fantasy.

Hardcover, Black and white illustrations,

x 21.5 cm, 240

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