A Pond Full of Ink
2011
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3.91
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36
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Annie M.G. Schmidt is a household name in the Netherlands, where almost everyone can sing at least one of her songs or recite a couple of lines of her poetry. The jury of the Hans Christian Andersen Award, which she won in 1988, praised her for her ironic tone, witty criticism and a style that is amusing, clear, rebellious and simple to its essence. David Colmer has produced sparkling new translations for this collection of her most iconic childrens poems, illustrator Sieb Posthuma presents his own colourful take on Schmidt's universe, and Irma Boom's design turns it all into a dazzling whole.
Avg Rating
3.91
Number of Ratings
129
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Annie Schmidt
Author · 43 books
Anna Maria Geertruida Schmidt was a Dutch writer. Although she wrote a variety of poems, songs, books, plays, musicals, and radio- en television drama, she is known best for her children's literature, for which she received the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1988. She committed suicide a day after her 84th birthday and was buried in Amsterdam.
