BLOWN AWAY

HET WOEI (BLOWN AWAY)
year:
2003
genre:
picture book, 32 p.
publisher:
illustrator:
Sebastiaan Van Doninck
age:
6+
awards:
Vlag en Wimpel 2004 (for the illustrations)

My first picture book with the (at that time) beginning Flemish artist Sebastiaan Van Doninck. The story: Dad was very busy - he had to wash our clothes, paint the gates, grub up the potatoes and phone the grannies. Yet, he agreed to go rowing with us. Nelly and I asked where his muscles had gone to and he answered: 'They have been blown away.' Also his hair and the parties and mum had been blown away. In the middle of the lake, dad fell asleep. Nelly and I wondered if things could be blown back as well. Yet, there was no wind. Or was there?