THERE WAS A TINCAN IN THE GRASS

ER LAG EEN TROMMELTJE IN HET GRAS (THERE WAS A TINCAN IN THE GRASS)

year:

2020

genre:

picture book, 32 p.

publisher:

Querido
illustrator:
Sanne te Loo

age:

5+

awards:

Silver Slate 2021

 

This story is about time. A young boy finds a tincan at a flee market, loses it in his way home, and then we go back in time... To see that the tincan once belonged to Lina, who used it to store a personal treasure when she was small. But then she forgot about it and years later, after her death, her daughters selll the tincan... to the young boy. From that point in the story we go forward: what happens when it's the boy's turn to grow old? Sanne te Loo beautifully illustrated this journey through the decades, and she reveils to the viewer what Lina's treasure was... The book ends with a treasure map that leads the children once again through the years and provides them with the last missing links...

THE BOY THAT SKATED WITH THE ANIMALS

DE JONGEN DIE MET DE DIEREN SCHAATSTE (THE BOY THAT SKATED WITH THE ANIMALS)
year:
2018

genre:

childrens book, 48 p.

publisher:

Querido, Amsterdam

illustrator:
Sanne te Loo
age:

6+

I have been friends with ex-speedskater Beorn Nijenhuis for years. And his athlete story is perfect for a children's book: growing up as a Canadian kid, skating in winter at his family's own lake, to being one of the speedskaters starting for The Netherlands at the Olympics in Torino, Italy. Sanne te Loo made Beorns story into a wonderfully warmhearted document and Maarten Deckers did the book design. The book has little text, is based on Beorns life story and answers questions like: is the future athlete already part of the 8-year old boy, and vice versa?