Francine Oomen
How To Survive Everything I Don’t Tell Anyone?
Everything you need to know to survive the present day as a Millennial or Gen Z. Which takes quite a lot…
After 25 years of success with How To Survive… there is a new book for Millennials and Gen Z.
For example, how does it make you feel when there are important things you don’t dare tell anyone?
What do you do when you’ve lost both your friends and yourself?
What do you do when you hear nasty voices in your head?
When you compare yourself to others and never feel good enough...
Or when you discover you are pregnant (accidentally and for the second time)?
When you have a sky-high student debt but no degree (and you have lost your bearings)?
In short: HOW do you go about being an adult in this day and age? By not letting on that you are just pretending? Fake it until you make it? Are you doing it alone, or are you happy to do things together?
Francine Oomen made her breakthrough with the How To Survive… series, which won her numerous awards. The series comprises 15 volumes, was filmed for television and the cinema and made into two successful musicals.
• The How To Survive…-series has sold over 3 million copies
• Volume 1 of the new series for ex-adolescents
• Featuring all the problems/issues/concerns of our time
Text: Francine Oomen, cover illustration: Annet Schaap Hardcover, 13.5 x 21.5 cm, 320 pages, published September 2023
famous How To Survive… series
Text: Francine Oomen, cover illustration: Annet Schaap Hardcover, 13.5 ´ 21.5 cm, 320 pages, published September 2023
Leon Römer
This is How You Make Cute
Drawings!
Volume 2
You never tire of drawing Kawaii! After the successful first volume of This is How You Make Cute Drawings! there is now a second volume with even more adorable step-by-step drawings. Put your pencil to paper and draw different kinds of dogs and cats, koalas and porcupines. What is new in volume 2 is the vehicles category, so from now on you can doodle the cutest camper vans, police cars and hot-air balloons. And, of course, this volume also offers lots of drawing tips from Leon Römer!
Dutch bestseller about drawing Kawaii
is an artist and illustrator. He presented De Stripshow for Dutch television, in which he taught children how to draw comic strips.
• Dutch bestseller: four reprints in one year!
• Step-by-step instructions for drawing Kawaii
• Hours of fun for both boys and girls of both
Text and illustrations: Leon Römer
Paperback with fold-outs and colour illustrations, 21 x 27.9 cm, 96 pages, published June 2023
Bette
Westera and Naomi Tieman Want To See My Room?
Our house has 18 rooms. Would you like to see them? Come on in! In the yoga room, Mum tries to imitate a palm tree. In the bathroom, you can have swimming lessons. Are you hungry? Come taste Yasmin’s tagines in the kitchen. Our house has no secrets: you can even find out who lives in our broom cupboard. There is one door that has a no-entry sign on it, but you can peek in through the keyhole… In Want To See My Room? there is room for everyone. Welcome to my home!
Original read-aloud book by award-winning authors
Bette Westera writes stories, poems and songs for toddlers, four-to-six year olds and older children. She has won numerous awards for her work.
Dorien Bellaar is an illustrator and teacher. She is curious and likes to meet people and animals of all sizes, colours and tastes in her illustrations.
• Every room has a story
• Read-aloud book with nursery rhymes, stories, recipes and songs
• Written by award-winning authors
Text: Bette Westera and Naomi Tieman, illustrations: Dorien Bellaar Hardcover, colour illustrations, 17 ´ 24 cm, 48 pages, published August 2023
Joukje Akveld
Bam! I Can Read - Oops, a Shark!
If you read about what really interests you, you can read before you know it. That is why there are now playful non-fiction books for beginner readers from the age of six. They are about your favourite animals: the shark, the panda, the snake, the dog, the spider and the crocodile. Or about your favourite hobbies: dancing, football, drawing, racing, gaming or horse riding.
The freshest beginner-reader series with funny facts
2023
• Beginner-reader books with kids’ favourite topics
• From the age of six
• Easy-to-read lettering and generous page layouts
• Funny facts to stimulate reading
Text: Joukje Akveld, illustrations: Anna Sikkes Hardcover, colour illustrations, 32 pages, published January 2023
Fred Diks
Bam! I Can Read - Football is (Not) Fab
If you read about what really interests you, you can read before you know it. That is why there are now playful non-fiction books for beginner readers from the age of six. They are about your favourite animals: the shark, the panda, the snake, the dog, the spider and the crocodile. Or about your favourite hobbies: dancing, football, drawing, racing, gaming or horse riding.
The freshest beginner-reader series with funny facts
• Beginner-reader books with kids’ favourite topics
• From the age of six
• Easy-to-read lettering and generous page layouts
• Funny facts to stimulate reading
Text: Fred Diks, illustrations: Jill Heesbeen Hardcover, colour illustrations, 32 pages, published January 2023
Susanne Roos Boris Bat is Blown Away
Boris Bat: who doesn’t love him?
A second volume in the Boris Bat series full of funny, delightful and endearing adventures to snuggle up to together on the sofa. Naturally, Boris’ nocturnal animal friends Snail, Moth and Hedgehog are also present. Together with his friends, Boris discovers that being scared can be fun sometimes. But how do you find a Champion of Camouflage when you are playing hide-and-seek?
A beautiful and richly illustrated book with little stories about big emotions, such as sadness, anger, fear and joy.
English translation availabe
Susanne Roos is a theatre maker, dreamer and writer. Her previous books include The Kid’s Book of Forts.
Aniek Bartels is an illustrator and designer. Her drawings have been used by Hema, Flow Magazine and Babboe.
• Accessible stories for toddlers and four-to-six year olds
• Full of little jokes and stubbornnes
Text: Susanne Roos, illustrations: Aniek Bartels Hardcover, colour illustrations, 23 ´ 27 cm, 96 pages, published August 2023
Door Susanne Roos en Aniek Bartels
Awards and rights sold
Turkish rights of My Year in a Tent sold to Uyurgezer Kitap. Selected for the Dutch Children’s Book Week.
Hungarian rights sold to Pagony
The film righs to Speedy Sam have been sold to BazarMedia
The theatre rights of The Unicorn That Said No have been sold to Bos Theater
Winner IBBY Award and the Silver Pencil.