Marjet Huiberts & Sieb Posthuma
Feodoor Has Seven Sisters (Feodoor heeft zeven zussen)
Just imagine it happened to you: seven older sisters, all of them crazy about you. It may sound nice, but it isn’t. And that’s what Feodoor finds out in Feodoor heeft zeven zussen (Feodoor Has Seven Sisters).
Going to bed takes hours because they all want a kiss and are scared of the dark. Getting dressed ends up with Feodoor completely bundled up: seven sets of clothes on top of one another. Being ill can be a killer, because seven doctors immediately come running. And when they go camping, the seven sisters naturally sing all hundred verses of the campfire song, until the sun comes up again.
He only really has any fun on his birthday. Because that’s when Feodoor, as is right and proper, gets to call the shots. And then the sisters, after he’s unwrapped seven presents, have to do tricks in his circus!
Marjet Huiberts poetically combines five wonderful episodes with just as much rambunctious pleasure in rhyming as the famous Annie M.G. Schmidt. Illustrator Sieb Posthuma does what he’s good at and supports the story with pictures that are robust, yet also soft, in which he mixes ink and watercolour, pen and brush. The only one who doesn’t always have the best of times is Feodoor himself. What a bunch, those seven sisters!
By Pjotr van Lenteren
Publisher
Gottmer
Wilhelminapark 6
2012 KA Haarlem
TEL. +31 23 541 11 90
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.gottmerkinderboeken.nl
Publishing details
Feodoor heeft zeven zussen (2006, 48 pp)
Age: 4+
Biographies
Lyricist Marjet Huiberts (b. 1960) is a relatively unknown name in the world of children’s books and has only recently been discovered as a writer of extremely entertaining light verse for children. She has worked for years as the regular lyricist for Frank Groothof, the theatre director and star of the Dutch version of Sesame Street, but published her own work for the first time in 2006.
Sieb Posthuma (b. 1960) worked as a graphic designer and newspaper illustrator for adults, before making his writing debut with books about his dog Rintje, which he both wrote and illustrated. In 2002, he won the ‘Penseel’ jury’s incentive prize for the first book in this series. His work has been published in America, Japan, Brazil, Italy, Denmark and Germany.
Website: www.rintje.nl
Quotes
A captivating book, full of humour.
Friesch Dagblad
This is humour that kids will lap up! (…) Funny and familiar. (…) A superb piece of work!
Trouw