16-11-2010
Hier is de boze heks recently published in France
Ouillouillouille... une sorcière!
by Hanna Kraan and Annemarie van Haeringen
Published at Syros:
Hanna Kraan is the author of seven delightfully funny books about the adventures of the Wicked Witch and the animals in the forest: the hare to whom everyone comes for advice, the grumpy hedgehog who still makes a fuss about the time the witch tangled up his prickles and the wise owl who loves poetry. The animals have to watch out for the Wicked Witch, but sometimes, in spite of everything, she turns out to have a heart of gold...
Kraan has a simple, charming way of telling the adventures of the Wicked Witch and the animals. The books are very popular among young children and their parents.
28-10-2010
Departure Time
Truus Matti
Recently sold to the USA receiving outstanding reviews:
Remarkable and arresting and wholly original, this novel lingers in the mind long after the last page has been read.
School Library Journal
As the puzzlelike story unfolds, it retains a suspenseful quality.
Publisher's Weekly
Rights sold to: Germany, Korea, USA
28-10-2010
It's a wonderful life
Jesse Goossens
It's a wonderful life has been sold to the United States. It will come out as ebook at Stephen Roxburgh's Namelos.
English translation available
28-10-2010
Silver Slate Pencil
Tiffany Grace by Tjibbe Veldkamp awarded with the Silver Slate Pencil 2010
"I was thirteen and I wanted a baby. I closed the door of the flat behind me and thought: when I come home later I'll be pregnant." That's how Tiffany Grace starts. The title is awarded the Silver Slate Pencil 2010.
English translation available
Tjibbe Veldkamp writes novels as well as picture books. Tamer Tom, published at Lemniscaat in Fall 2009, is as hilarious as Tiffany Grace. With a serious layer in it as well. The splendid illustrations are made by Philip Hopman, one of Holland's most talented and leading illustrators.
27-10-2010
golden paint brush
The Tree House awarded with the Golden Paint Brush 2010
This exceptional picture book received the Bologna Ragazzi Award 2010 and was awarded the most prestigious Dutch award: the Golden Paint Brush 2010.
Sold to: Germany, Italy, USA, France, Korea, Argentina (Spanish)
27-10-2010
Winter in Wartime
Jan Terlouw
An award winning novel taking place during World War II in Holland. The book was first published in 1973, and is still selling strongly. The adaptation for screen has been a huge success in The Netherlands and film rights have in the meantime been sold to Sony Pictures in the United States!
English translation available
30-04-2010
Bologna Ragazzi Award 2010
The Tree House wins the prestigious Bologna Ragazzi Award 2010
De boomhut (The Tree House) has been elected winner in the category Fiction (illustrated fairy tales).
The illustrator Marije Tolman and her father Ronald Tolman created this wonderful book together: Marije made the illustrations, her father made the etchings that make up the background of De boomhut. A unique cooperation between father and daughter.
An exceptional picture book where each spread invites you to invent an extraordinary story (or even stories) without the need for any text whatsoever. Suitable for all ages, for anyone who wishes to submerge in the world of expectations and astonishment that Marije and her father have created. There is a brown bear who meets a polar bear, there are flamingos passing by and many other exquisitely designed animals. The colours are so magnificent they linger on your retina for a long time.
The Bologna Ragazzi Award Jury stated the following about De boomhut:
De boomhut is a wise, clear, even poetic, example of how an established topos of the collective imagination may be revisited with a fresh eye to reveal a continued relevance to modern times. Marije Tolman and Ronald Tolman return to the "house in the trees". Their house, however, is rich with subtle cultural references ranging from symbolist painting to the most refined 20th century graphic art.
The book's message is not declaimed, but is conveyed quietly. It pleads for an enlightened ecological stance in which an intense awareness that we are part of nature does not forego our need for elegance and intellectual enquiry. .
