SOFIE AND THE ELEPHANTS

SOFIE EN DE OLIFANTEN (SOFIE AND THE ELEPHANTS)
year:
2018

genre:

childrens book, with comic- and non-fiction-elements, 144 p.

publisher:

Querido, Amsterdam

illustrator:
Floor de Goede (illustrations and comics)
Ype+Willem (photo-comics)
age:

8+

In this sixth book about Sofie we again combine several elements (text, illustrations on every page, comics, photo-comics, short non-fiction pieces and extra's at the end of the book). Sofies parents are abroad for work, so Sofie stays at her grandparent's house. But they have another guest as well: a grumpy old zookeeper who doesn't know what to do with himself, after his retirement. But then he starts telling the story about two baby elephants. Sofie and her best friends Timmie and Billie are mesmerized. And there is even a surprise at the end. A big surprise...

- The other volumes are called:
SOFIE EN DE PINGUÏNS (2010)
SOFIE EN HET VLIEGENDE JONGETJE (2012)
SOFIE EN HET IJSBEERTJE (2013)
SOFIE EN DE DOLFIJNEN (2014)
SOFIE EN HET GEHEIME PAARD (2015).

SOFIE AND THE SECRET HORSE

SOFIE EN HET GEHEIME PAARD (SOFIE AND THE SECRET HORSE)
year:

2015

genre:

childrens book, with comic- and non-fiction-elements, 144 p.

publisher:

Querido, Amsterdam

illustrator:
Floor de Goede (illustrations and comics)
Ype+Willem (photo-comics)
age:

8+

SOFIE AND THE DOLPHINS

SOFIE EN DE DOLFIJNEN (SOFIE AND THE DOLPHINS)
year:

2014

genre:

childrens book, with comic- and non-fiction-elements, 144 p.

publisher:

Querido, Amsterdam

illustrator:
Floor de Goede (illustrations and comics)
Ype+Willem (photo-comics)
age:

8andup

SOFIE AND THE LITTLE POLAR BEAR

SOFIE EN HET IJSBEERTJE (SOFIE AND THE LITTLE POLAR BEAR)

year:

2013

genre:

childrens book, with comic- and non-fiction-elements, 144 p.

publisher:

Querido, Amsterdam

illustrator:
Floor de Goede (illustrations and comics)
Ype+Willem (photo-comics)
age:

8+

In this third book where we combined several elements (text, illustrations on every page, comics, photo-comics, short non-fiction pieces and extra's at the end of the book), it's not just about penguins, like the first book, but also about polar bears. Sofie, this cheerful, sweet girl, visits the zoo with her two funny friends Billie and Timmie. When they are looking at Vicks, the young polar bear at the zoo accidentely breaking his wondow (an event that really happened at the Rotterdam Zoo!), they get entangled with Vicks's whereabouts...

- The other volumes are called:
SOFIE EN DE PINGUÏNS (2010)
SOFIE EN HET VLIEGENDE JONGETJE (2012)
SOFIE EN DE DOLFIJNEN (2014)
SOFIE EN HET GEHEIME PAARD (2015) -
to be continued...

SOFIE AND THE FLYING BOY

SOFIE EN HET VLIEGENDE JONGETJE (SOFIE AND THE FLYING BOY)
year:

2012

genre:

childrens book, with comic- and non-fiction-elements, 144 p.

publisher:

Querido, Amsterdam

illustrator:
Floor de Goede (illustrations and comics)
Ype+Willem (photo-comics)
age:

8+

In this second book where we combined several elements (text, illustrations on every page, comics, photo-comics, short non-fiction pieces and extra's at the end of the book), it's not just about penguins, like the first book, but also about all kinds of flying animals. And the story is again about Sofie, this cheerful, sweet girl with her two funny friends Billie and Timmie, and the rest of her family. This time they will spend a holiday with Sofies grandparents. But when they arrive, there is Ulrik: a peculiar, nerdy little boy that seems to dislike penguins...

- The other volumes are called:
SOFIE EN DE PINGUÏNS (2010)
SOFIE EN HET IJSBEERTJE (2013)
SOFIE EN DE DOLFIJNEN (2014)
SOFIE EN HET GEHEIME PAARD (2015) -
to be continued...

SOFIE AND THE PENGUINS

SOFIE EN DE PINGUÏNS (SOFIE AND THE PENGUINS)
year:

2010

genre:

childrens book, with comic- and non-fiction-elements, 160 p.

publisher:

Querido, Amsterdam

illustrator:
Floor de Goede (illustrations and comics)
Ype+Willem (photo-comics)
age:

7+
awards:
Nominated for the Prize of the Dutch Children's Jury 2011
Feather of the Senate of the Dutch Children's Jury 2011
Winner of the Flemish Children's and Youth Jury 2012
rights sold:
Italian (Il Castoro), Estonian (Päike ja Pilv), Israel (Rimonim Publishing)


Cover paperback version (2014)

I really like penguins. I really wanted to make a book with several elements (text, illustrations on every page, comics, photo-comics, short non-fiction pieces and extra's at the end of the book). And I really wanted to work with Floor de Goede again (after the comic-poem-books we made) and with Ype Driessen and Willem Stam, who make wonderful and funny photo-comcs. All the wishes combined gave me SOFIE AND THE PENGUINS, the story about a sweet girl with her two funny friends Billie and Timmie, and the rest of her family. Sofie adores penguins. She thinks she might even be in love with them. And so her story became the basis for a whole, still ongoing series. Winning two children's jury awards (for the first time in my career) absolutely helped us wanting to make more and more volumes, every episodes combining an upbeat story with information about penguins ánd some other animal (polar bears, Dolphins etc.) - and a small lesson to be learned about family, friendship or love, as well.

- The other volumes are called:
SOFIE EN HET VLIEGENDE JONGETJE (2012)
SOFIE EN HET IJSBEERTJE (2013)
SOFIE EN DE DOLFIJNEN (2014)
SOFIE EN HET GEHEIME PAARD (2015) -
to be continued...