picture books

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picture books

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GOTTMER
PUBLISHING GROUP
Baby & Toddler
Picture Books
Fiction & Read Aloud Books
Non-Fiction
Early Readers
Apps
Spring 2014
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TUMMY TOM
Jet Boeke (concept & ill.) & Arthur van Norden (txt)
Tummy Tom, Spring is in the Air
Picture book. 24.4 x 24.5 cm. 32 pages
Ages 3 and up. € 9.95
Four brand-new Tummy Tom stories about spring. The arrival of springtime is always
a delightful time for animals, including Tummy Tom. In this latest book, toddlers and
preschoolers can experience the joys of spring along with their favourite cat!
Tummy Tom’s
XL Look-and-Find Book!
Picture book. 32 x 49 cm. 24 pages
Release: April 2013
A giant look-and-find book: stretch out on the floor and
spend hours searching for Tummy Tom. Tummy Tom has
cleverly hidden in-between the other cats, is lost inside
a maze, or disguised and difficult to find amongst the
other animals.
Tummy Tom
The Finger-Paint Book with a “Mess Pot” Apron
Paperback. 30 x 35 cm. 32 pages
A colouring book, especially aimed at toddlers which are not yet capable of
painting within the lines. The book comes with a “mess pot” apron to make
sure the kid’s clothes don’t get covered with paint!
Tummy Tom’s Most Beautiful Stories
Picture book
24.5 x 24.5 cm. 96 pages
For Tummy Tom’s 35th birthday, Jet Boeke selected her 4 favorite picture book stories:
Where is Tummy Tom?, Tummy Tom and the Balloon, Tummy Tom at the Beach and
The Cat Circus. With three happy animal sound buttons on the cover.
Tummy Tom’s Large Read Aloud Book
Picture book with hologram cover and DVD
24 x 24 cm. 192 pages
New adventures for Tummy Tom in thirty read aloud stories.
Twenty-four stories are animated on the DVD, together
with twelve games for toddlers to play themselves.
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Tummy Tom’s Read-Along Book
Release: August 2013
A collection of the best Tummy Tom stories designed for reading aloud together. Whenever you get to a picture in-between the text, you ask the child to
say the word aloud. This makes storytelling interactive and gives toddlers and
pre-schoolers the feeling that they’re reading too!
The Cat Circus
Picture book. 26 x 22 cm. 24 pages
A brand new story about the Netherlands’s most popular tomcat who gives a
circus performance together with a bunch of his cat friends.
Ask for the other picture books!
Rights sold: China
Tummy Tom On the Farm
Tummy Tom In the Garden
Tummy Tom In the Forest
Tummy Tom In the Zoo
Board book with flaps. 17 x 17 cm. 10 pages
Ages 12 months and up. € 7.95
Four sturdy board books with large flaps to search,
discover and learn new words together with Tummy
Tom. Or simply to hold, ‘read’ and enjoy!
Tummy Tom’s Deluxe Birthday Book
Picture book with hologram cover
24 x 24 cm. 192 pages
Thirty of the best Tummy Tom short stories collected in a superdeluxe book almost 200 pages long! The large illustrations make
it perfect for reading aloud.
Tummy Tom Green Block Book
Board book. 14 x 14 cm. 110 pages
Sixteen Tummy Tom adventures of each 6 pages have been collected in the series of
coloured books. The books are made of sturdy, yet flexible carton. On the cover
Tummy Tom is printed in relief; he almost really jumps of the page!
Available are 4 different block books in 4 different colours
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Ted van Lieshout (txt) and Philip Hopman (ill.)
Picture book. 24 x 24 cm. 32 pages.
Farmer Fred
Is there any child that would not want to be Farmer Fred? He has his own farm,
where he can drive around on his red tractor all day long. And on this farm
there are so many things to look at: ploughs, fields and of course lots and lots
of animals. And everything can be counted from 1 to 10. Uh, sorry, 11!
Farmer Fred at the Beach
What kinds of things will Farmer Fred need while
he’s on vacation? Hmm… a whole lot of stuff.
So he decides he’d better go by tractor. Still not
enough space? Farmer Fred has a solution for that too!
It’s going to be a super holiday!
Farmer Fred Snowed in
Farmer Fred! Look out the window!
Open the curtains and see the snow.
Come outside. Everything on the farm
is white, white, white!
Farmer Fred No time to party
A little lamb has been born. A good reason for a party, however Farmer Fred does not have time to party. There a lot
of work to be done at the farm. But what is a good reason to
have a party?
That One!
Mirte Stut & Geert van Donkelaar
Board book. coloured edges. 23.2 x 28.8 cm. 32 pages
That One! is a fantastically original and educational picture book that creates order in the
chaos of words young children have to make sense of daily. Thanks to a broad photographic overview of everyday objects, children learn how to refer to the world around them.
But what makes this book really special is that it’s divided into 14 fun categories, amongst
which: 'that is dirty’, ‘that is thin’ and ‘that is round’.
That is small
Mirte Stut & Geert van Donkelaar
Board book. 16 x 12 cm. 32 pages
Another original and educational picture book, but in a smaller format.
And of course all images are small too: a baby chicken, a nail,
a ladybug; all kinds of things toddlers love.
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A Big Day Ahead
Arnoud Wierstra (txt & ill.)
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Picture book. 24.5 x 30 cm. 36 pages
This picture book’s main character is clearly excited about a special event that’s
about to happen. Final preparations are put in place before he goes to bed. Tomorrow
is the big day... but when he wakes up and sets out, nothing goes as planned. From
all the signs along the way, the observant reader will realise that this is a story about
a bad dream. Fortunately there’s a happy ending… but by then you’ll want to go back
to the very beginning to uncover a lot more clues.
Is That All?
Jan Paul Schutten (txt) & Kees de Boer (ill.)
Dirk is staying with his grandfathers. However, he still has to go to school as usual.
That’s why his grandfathers have made him a bicycle, with their own hands.
And, while Dirk is looking at this very rickety bicycle, his grandfathers are bragging
about how much they had to go through on their way to school in their time.
Three Brave Little Horses
Rian Visser & Margriet van Noort (ill.)
Ages 4 and up. € 13.95. Release: May 2013
The three little horses, Spotty, Foxy and Blackie have decided to jump over the ditch,
to go in search of adventure. Spotty becomes a workhorse at a farm, whereas Foxy
will be the riding horse for the daughter of an aristocratic family. But Blackie is the
one that will have the most exciting future – he’ll become a circus horse!
Stan the Stuttering Lamb
Mark Haayema (txt) & Wouter Tulp (ill.)
Picture book, 20.7 x 26 cm, 32 pages
Ages 4 and up, € 14.95
Stan the lamb stutters, especially when he’s nervous. And that can be frustrating when
you want to say something important. And what’s even more frustrating: Stan’s friends
don’t let him speak his mind and constantly finish his sentences for him. Luckily Dirk has
just moved to the meadow next door and is perfectly happy to listen to Stan. This cheerful
picture book subtly introduces two themes to children: stuttering and being gay.
Good Knight
Bette Westera (txt) & Thé Tjong-Khing (ill.)
Long ago, in the Middle Ages, all knights had beards. Except for Knight Roderick,
and this made him something of an outcast. He was never invited along to slay dragons.
Knights without beards were only good for growing carrots and tomatoes and cucumbers.
But surprisingly enough Knight Roderick has the secret recipe for dragon meatballs,
so he can capture the fair lady’s heart
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The Year of the Badger
Nicole de Cock (txt & ill.) & Debbie Saul (typesetting)
Only few illustrators succeed in depicting nature in a realistic way without
becoming boring and educational; Nicole de Cock is one of them.
For this picture book she has chosen to work with a very special technique
called the scraperboard or scratchboard, which was highly popular in the 19th century.
The result is a drawing with great detail. This book does not only tell a story of the badger
through all seasons, but it also stimulates children to freely associate and
to add their own ‘seasonal’ words to the text.
Rights sold: France
Swift’s Travels
Nicole de Cock (txt & ill.)
For over ten years Nicole followed up on ‘her’ swift Spot, who returns to his
familiar nest underneath her roof every single year. She monitors his life by using
a little camera, pointed at the nest at all times. In this story, she describes in word
and image a random summer in Spot and his family’s life, from the moment of
their first chirp in the spring to the moment that they fly back to Africa.
Rights sold: France
Scram and Screwy
Nicole de Cock (txt & ill.)
Picture book with separate endpapers
22.5 x 22.5 cm. 32 pages
A lovely, moving story with a few words necessary to tell the story of a friendship
between Scram the donkey and Screwy the mouse. Sometimes their friendship
seems not entirely in balance, but this book learns that giving is sometimes more
rewarding than taking.
Rights sold: Korea, China
6 Carols for the Christmas Tree
Nicole de Cock
Picture book. 6 x 7.2 cm, 16 pages
All ages. € 1.95 each
In each of these little books you will find the complete text
of a traditional Christmas carol, attractively illustrated.
Each book has a gold coloured ribbon, so it can be hung on
the Christmas tree.
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I Want a Whale!
Bette Westera (txt) & Loes Riphagen (ill.)
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Picture book
25.7 x 25.7 cm. 32 pages
This year Tim knows exactly what he would like to get for a birthday present: a pet
and nothing else. After all, all his friends have pets. Eva has a whale in the pond.
Jasper has a lama, about to give birth, and what’s more: Jerry has a dinosaur!
“How does he come up with such things?” his parents wonder. But when they invite
various parents it appears that Tim is not the little fibber they thought he was.
Counting Sheep
Hans van der Meer
Picture book. 64 pages. 21 x 21 cm. Ages 3 and up. € 12.95
Farmer Jack’s sheep live in the meadow close to the farm.
Photographer Hans van der Meer was looking after the
sheep of his friend. Then he found out how difficult it is
to count them every day. This inspired him to make his
first children’s book.
Johnny and the Helicopter
Bert Vissers (txt) & Eliane Gerrits (ill.)
Picture book
21.5 x 28 cm. 32 pages
Ages 4 and up. € 13,95
An old-fashioned, thrilling story about Johnny who, in his grandfather’s shed,
assembles a home-made helicopter, which can really take to the air. With his
helicopter he flies over the village and over the sea, and, in passing, he even
rescues a skipper who was stuck on his capsized ship. Once safely landed in
his village, together with the skipper, the mayor is there waiting for him.
Johnny is a hero! A book with beautiful illustrations in 4 PMS-colours which fit
wonderfully well into this feel-good story. Part 2 is already on its way!
Little Red Riding Hood Was a Cool Girl
Marjet Huiberts (txt) & Wendy Panders (ill.)
Picture book with CD
25.3 x 23.7 cm. 48 pages
Classic fairy tales like you’ve never heard them! The author took seven
well-known fairy tales, and went all out: princesses surfing on the web,
wolves chilling, and princes landing helicopters on palaces.
And everything in rap! The book has stunning illustrations,
and comes with a karaoke CD. Great fun for children!
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Mr. Cat’s Tail
Tjalling Houkema (concept & ill).
Hardcover. leporello
27.7 x 21.9 cm
The author created a very unusual picture book that does not need words.
Not just because of the format, but mainly because of the many details and
humour in his illustrations. The red and white tail of the cat is the main
character of the story; the daily life of Mr. Blackbird takes place on it.
Will Mr. Cat’s tail ever end? Oh yes,but if that makes Mr. Blackbird happy…
A story to read again and again.
The Storyteller’s 30 Favorite Fairytales
Thé Tjong-Khing
Hardcover with bookmarker ribbon
19.5 x 23.5 cm. 296 pages
Widely acknowledged as a brilliant illustrator, Thé Tjong-Khing has won many prestigious
Dutch awards for his work including three Golden Paintbrushes, a Silver Paintbrush and the
Woutertje Pieterse Prize for the best literary work for children and the Max Velthuijs Award
2010! With the fairytale books, Thé Tjong-Khing fulfils one of his long-time desires. When
reading traditional fairytales aloud, he realized the use of language was often too difficult
for small children. To make these splendid stories accessible for his grandchildren, he has
rewritten them and of course made the most beautiful new illustrations!
Cowboy Kimmy
Marjet Huiberts (txt) & Noëlle Smit (ill.)
Picture book
29.7 x 22.7 cm. 48 pages
Age 4 and up. € 14,95
Marjet Huiberts
Noëlle Smit
Two highly praised and honoured top talents have joined
forces and made tough Kimmy Cowboy the unforgettable
picture book protagonist. Five thrilling stories all in
one thick picture book.
Dawdle
Rian Visser (txt) & Noëlle Smit (ill.)
Picture book
27 x 23 cm. 32 pages
‘Hurry up, Dawdle’, Mama hollers each morning. ‘We have to go to school.’
But Dawdle finds it hard to hurry. However one day with all his lingering and
paying attention to little things, he arrives right on time to safe his friend! In a
humorous way this book shows that a little lingering and dreaming may sometimes
be better than hurrying.
Rights sold: Germany, Poland
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Little Captain Kidd
Marjet Huiberts (txt) & Sieb Posthuma (ill.)
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Picture book
29.7 x 22.7 cm. 48 pages
Awarded with the Silver Pencil 2010 for the original, funny text and an
Honourable Mention 2010 for the beautiful illustrations. And also this title
was selected as one of the Best Designed Books and was National Picture Book
of the Month in September 2010.
Little Captain Kidd – the most lovable pirate in ages – is growing up
at sea amount rough-and-tough pirates. But, just like any other child,
he has to empty his plate, take a bath and learn how to swim.
Rights sold: France, China, Denmark and Sweden
Also as an app
Little Captain Kidd Runs into Great Dangers
Picture book
29.7 x 22.7 cm. 48 pages
Once again, in this new volume, Little Captain Kidd sails the seven seas on board
of his father’s pirate ship. Very soon it becomes clear that life on a pirate ship is
not without its dangers. Little Kidd falls ill, but there is no doctor on board, Little
Kidd goes digging for treasure an gets lost, and a few evil pirates attack his ship.
Fortunately all his own tough pirates help Little Captain Kidd out in word and deed
(albeit not always in a very practical way).
Captain Kidd Needs a Bath
Bath book
30 x 23.5 cm. 12 pages
Ages 4 years and up
€ 14.95
A New Kid on the Farm!
Marjet Huiberts (txt) & Iris Deppe (ill.)
Picture book
Ages 3 years and up
€ 13.95
There’s a new baby on the children’s farm. But before Mick finds the
newborn goat he ends up visiting all the farm’s animals, who each express
their happiness about the birth of the new kid in their own unique way.
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Sir Francis the Fearful
Marjet Huiberts (txt) & Philip Hopman (ill.)
Picture book
Sir Francis the Fearful is no hero at all. Apart from dragons
he also fears witches, big lords, knights… really anyone.
But fortunately the world is not as scary as Sir Francis thinks.
Friends for Sir Francis
Picture book
After the success of Sir Francis the Fearful six new adventures are collected
in Friends for Sir Francis. In this second volume he finds out that the world
is not as scary as he fears it is. He even makes friends!
Sir Francis: On Your Marks: Go!
Picture book
22.5 x 22.5 cm. 32 pages
A special edition with new adventures about the sweetest knight in the
world. Sir Francis – not being a hero at all – competes in a knight tournament,
a hunt and a horse race. His opponents are very impressive, but Sir Francis
learns that he can also be a winner!
Feodor has Seven Sisters
Picture book
29.7 cm x 22.7 cm. 48 pages
Awarded with the Silver Paint Brush 2007 Feodor has seven sisters, seven big and
noisy sisters. Being their younger brother is not an easy job for Feodor. Except when
it’s his birthday, then having seven sisters is a blast!
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High in a Blossoming Linden Tree, a Podgy Rooster Sat…
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Maria van Donkelaar/Martine van Rooijen (txt.) & Sieb Posthuma (ill.)
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Hardcover
20.5 x 32.5 cm. 160 pages
Fables are part of everybody’s cultural heritage. Who hasn’t heard the story of the tortoise
and the hare or the fox and the stork? Authors Maria van Donkelaar and Martine van Rooijen
collected seventy-five of the most beautiful animal fables from literature around the world
and put these in rhyme. Sieb Posthuma’s beautiful illustrations depict the human
characteristics of the animals in a sublime and humorous way. The result is a splendid book
for reading aloud.
Rights sold: China
Floating on a Cloud
The Marvellous Teachings & Tall Tales of Mr. Mandrillus
Bette Westera (txt.) & Sylvia Weve (ill.)
Hardcover, with bookmarker ribbon
20.5 x 32.5 cm. 100 pages
A beautifully designed book with 47 animal stories set to rhyme and adorned with
colourful illustrations. The stories form a humorous mixture between biology and language,
specifically layered to suit both children and adults. The lovely illustrations – made with the
use of various techniques – are perfectly complementary to the stories.
Step Aside, I Am Not Your Grandmother!
Bette Westera (txt) & Sylvia Weve (ill.)
Wire-O with flaps
Step Aside, I Am Not Your Grandmother! is a book of narrative poems about fifteen older people
(nine individuals and three couples), who – and children tend to forget this – were once
young as well and have a lifetime of experience behind them. This book is exceptional
in its kind: it is the first book for children to focus on older people but then not in the
typical grandparent role. Earlier collaborations by Weve & Westera have been very successful.
Winner of the Golden Paint Brush 2013
Where was Jack?
Iene Biemans (txt) & Ceseli Josephus Jitta (ill.)
Hardcover
14.5 x 22.5 cm. 64 pages
For the first time Jack is home alone. Jack discovers that, at the back of a cupboard, there is a
bottle, filled with bright orange coloured lemonade. Wonderfully soft and deliciously sweet. But, is
it really lemonade? It looks more like a magic potion! From the very moment Jack has taken his
first sip, his whole world changes. Jack is in real trouble. And he is determined to get out of it.
Vlag & Wimpel 2013
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A Lesson in Breaking Wind
and other Stories about the Gang of Four
Sunna Borghuis (txt.) & Harmen van Straaten (ill.)
Picture book
25.3 x 23.7 cm. 192 pages
A great big, new read-aloud book about the twins Maya and Jude, their younger brother Chase and their nutty father. Not only are the original twenty stories from The
Poo Castle and Grandpa Cowboy included, but ten unforgettable new stories as well.
Chase has to give a talk at school, but he’s having a lot of trouble coming up with a
good topic. Cats, dinosaurs – hasn’t it all been said before? But then his dad gets
one of his ingenious ideas: isn’t breaking wind as good a topic as any?
The Voice Slurper
Lisa Boersen (txt.) & Lars Deltrap (ill.)
Hardcover. 14.5 x 22.5 cm. 160 pages
A package is delivered to Mika one day. Her Aunt To, who has lived in the jungle for years, has
sent it to the family with an appeal for help. She’s afraid the content of the package will fall into
the wrong hands. It appears to be some kind of a straw: one that slurps up voices. Mika and her
neighbour Danny see it as a handy way to get people to shut up, so they immediately use it on
Danny's annoying sister Jessica. Mika’s mother also has someone in mind: her boss. But when
everything goes differently than planned, it’s time to take a trip to the jungle to unravel the mystery of the voice slurper.
Hotel Time Out
Lisa Boersen (txt.) & Lars Deltrap (ill.)
The four main characters of this story have only one thing in common: they are embarrassed about something stupid they did and in
some mysterious way they all ended up in this time-out hotel, where
the ever optimistic hostess helps them to find the courage again to
return to the situation they wanted to escape from. A strong story
full of humor!
Also by the same author: Jani Kekke and the Blue Daydreamer
Rights sold: Germany
Some More Tea, Elephant?
Linda Groeneveld
Hardcover
14.5 x 22.5 cm. 160 pages
The little princess is longing for a puppy dog. Her father never finds the time to play with her,
but puppies might. Unfortunately the princess does not get a puppy, but to everyone’s big surprise an elephant is delivered on the doorstep of the palace. Nobody knows what to do, except
for the princess. It is a bit difficult though, because elephants do not behave like puppies...
Also by the same author: A Pancake for the Queen, The Icecream Factory
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Ted van Lieshout is the winner of just about every award available for authors of children’s books.
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His stories for children are characterised by a melancholy humour, his collection of poetry for children is dominated
by the search for security and identity. With beautiful and funny illustrations by Sylvia Weve
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Also by the same author: The Queen and I
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The Sweetest Boy in the World
Thyme is a quiet boy. He’s always polite and his clothes never
get dirty. And he’s worried, especially about the future when
he’ll have a family. His sister tells him he’s boring, but adults
think he’s the sweetest boy in the world… and that’s a talent
too?! Thyme takes advantage of this and goes out on the street
to peddle money. Something to put away for later – when he
has a wife and children...
Release: June 2013
Mike Has a Secret
There are two stories in the book Mike Has a Secret. In the first story Mike loses
a tooth, whereas in the second story his grandmother disappears. More than anybody else
Ted van Lieshout knows how to imagine the emotions of a child, a child that at times
will take a grown-up’s words literally. With all its consequences.
Dotty and her Lemonade Mother
Dotty is such a very clean girl, that she never needs a bath. However, when
her mother tells her to clean up under her bed she gets covered in dust and,
for the first time in her life, she will need a bath. But then it appears that
Dotty is allergic to bath water, so she shrinks and shrinks and then
disappears through the drain pipe!
I Am a Hero
A funny book about a father and his son. All their adventures
are full of fantasy and written in a beautiful way. Together they
have to beat sharks, ghosts and other creatures.
The result is an exciting book for early readers. And this time
the son is the hero, not the father!
Rights sold: Spain, Germany
I Am a Magician
The second book about the son and his father. The son inherits a
magic box from a distant relative. Not just an ordinary magic box,
but one with which you can saw someone (a orphan girl) in half.
When the son tries to saw his father in half the trick fails… But the
father does expect his son to put him together again!
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Wolfie
Claudia Jong, With illustrations by Kees de Boer (ill.)
Hardcover. 15 x 21.5 cm. 176 pages
Wolfie’s mother thinks that she is old enough to buy a new coat all by herself. Wolfie agrees
with her. However, Wolfie gives her money to vagabond Ginger, whom she has befriended
because he tells Wolfie such beautiful stories (when she is all out by herself). Ginger is very
thirsty and red wine isn’t cheap. Wolfie is afraid to tell her mom the money for her new coat has
disappeared. Fortunately, Ginger has devised a plan to earn back the money. The plan went off
smoothly, that is, until Wolfie’s mother finds out what they are up to. However, when she gets to know
Ginger better and finds that he is a great help to little Wolf getting over the loss of her father, she forgets about being angry.
The Red Egg
Han van der Vegt
With illustrations by Loes Riphagen
Hardcover. 15 x 21 cm. 208 pages
The Red Egg is the humorous tale of sisters Sam, Zus and
Lot. Through an inept mistake of local politics, the three
sisters lose both their home and their parents in a single
blow. The village’s shady mayor offers them a quaint new
home: a big red egg. It soon turns out that this egg has
more to offer than just a roof over their heads…
Forever Famous
Mireille Geus
Blossom
Hardcover, 15 x 21.5 cm. 176 pages
Ages 10 and up. € 13.95
Derk Visser
Hardcover. 13.5 x 21 cm. 160 pages
Ages 10 and up, € 13.95
Release: September 2013
Everybody knows Rembrandt’s famous painting The
Nightwatch. It inspired the author for this novel.
Mireille Geus gave the two children in the painting a
name and a life. A realistic story about the Golden
Age in the Netherlands. Albert’s mother died and this
made his life very difficult. He gets a job at the
household of lieutenant Van Ruytenburch. While Rembrandt paints his master, Albert gets to know Cornelia
who lives in the household of the famous painter.
Blossom just moved from Brussels in Belgium to the Netherlands. Whether at
school or at home she’s never shy about
expressing her opinion. She does everything she can to get her divorced parents
back together. When she finds out she has
a brain tumour, Blossom doesn’t give up.
While undergoing chemotherapy she falls
for a boy at school, gets the best scores of
her group on the high school entrance
exam and learns to play the drums. And
even though she’s confined to bed, she
gives a stirring speech about world peace.
Mama, Come Back!
Thérèse Major
Hardcover
15 x 21.5 cm. 176 pages
Ages 10 and up. € 12.95
Johnny’s mother does not return from her vacation in Hungary. She wants to stay in Hungary
until she found her real father. Johnny misses his mother desperately and can not put up
with the situation any longer. With the help of his aunt he also leaves for Hungary trying to
help his mother with her search, thus discovering several secrets.
Also by the same author: Dive (Rights sold: Germany)
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Brothers
Ted van Lieshout
Hardcover
14.5 x 22.5 cm. 160 pages
Ages 14 and up. € 14.95
Brothers is a semi-autobiographical story about the loss of a brother. ‘How can you be a brother
after your brother died?’ This questions troubles Lucas, the main character in this book. Lucas
finds the diary of his older brother and starts reading it. The diary confronts Lucas with himself;
his brother already seemed to know things about Lucas before he did about himself. A highly
appreciated book, translated in many languages.
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Risk
Jelmer Soes
Hardcover
13.5 x 21 cm. 192 pages
Ages 14 and up. € 14.95
The playground castle in the park is like a second home to Sally. That’s where she meets
all her friends, but the local council has decided to demolish the castle for archaeological
research. Sally is determined to find out whether it is really true that, many years ago,
there used to be a real castle on the site of her castle.
Barbed Wire
Derk Visser
Hardcover
13.5 x 21 cm. 208 pages
Ages 14 and up. € 13.95
Fifteen year old Pearl lives in a normal neighborhood in a big city, but other than that, there is
not a lot of ‘normality’ in her life. Her father’s café is broke after the ban on smoking and her
elderly sister is not happy either. But even though nobody is showing affection, the family does
love each other. However, due to a drama, everything seems to change. Pearl tries to go on
with her life and tries to cope with feelings of guilt and sadness. Her friend Micky is a great
support for her.
Also by the same author: Chips and Curry Sauce, About True Love
Charlie Wallace
Stan van Elderen
Paperback
14 x 21.5 cm. 176 pages
Ages 14 and up. € 11.95
A modern, intelligent novel about a friendship with the free-spirited extrovert daredevil
Charlie Wallace, who has recently moved to New York, and Jonathan, the only child of a
well-off family. The friendship between the boys grows. However, what is to come is
inevitable and painfully illustrates how pure chance can make life seem futile.
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Classical Music for Kids
Hardcover picture book, with CD
Ages 5 and up
€ 19.95
In this beautiful series text and illustrations combine perfectly with the classical music of famous composers. Each book is illustrated
by a different top-illustrator, whose talent is recognized all over the world. The music on the cd is performed by the best orchestras
in the world and conducted by equally famous conductors. Classical music is thus made accessible for children.
Available in this series:
Carnaval of the Animals – Saint-Saëns
Peter and the Wolf – Prokofiev
Exhibition of Paintings – Moussorgsky
The Nutcracker – Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake – Tchaikovsky
Carmen – Bizet
Cinderella – Prokofiev
The Firebird – Stravinsky
Don Giovanni – Mozart
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50 Questions Series
There are lots and lots of questions children ask about in our successful ‘Children’s Questions’ series.
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Is there Wind in
Outer Space?
Govert Schilling
G Does the sun ever stop shining?
G Can you build a house on Mars?
G How big is the universe
Fifty Things Kids Want to Know about
Space Travel & Astronomy.
Does a Train have
a Steering-Wheel?
Christa Carbo with illustrations by Irene
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Paperback, 15 x 20 cm. 112 pages
How Much Paper Goes
into a Tree?
How to Become Rich
Quickly?
Bas van Lier
Bas van Lier with illustrations by
Irene Goede
The answer to the question in the title is:
‘With one tree trunk of around ten metres
long and thirty centimetres thick, you can
make around eight thousand sheets of
A4 paper. Enough to print three hundred
of these books’.
G Can you be rolling in money ?
G Why do people borrow money if
they have to pay it all back?
G Why are bank managers always
pictured as being fat?
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Bas van Lier selected 50 questions out
of the many questionschildren asked
and went in search of answers.
Do Fish Drink Water?
Will People Always Exist?
Margriet van der Heijden &
Maarten Frankenhuis
Bas van Lier
Also available in this series:
G Can a train get a speeding ticket?
G Will trains exist in 2112?
G What is the heaviest object ever
Are There Any Sharks in the Castle Moat?
– Herman Pleij
transported by a train?
Does the Queen Own Her Own Latchkey?
– Cor de Horde
Christo Carbo went in search of answers
to these and other questions, which give
a very varied image of the history, technology and a number of other subject
matters like trains and tracks.
Do the Police Ever Get a Fine Themselves?
– Christa Carbo
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The Mystery of Life
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and the Smelly Socks of Joey Spark from Regal Park
Jan Paul Schutten (txt) & Floor Rieder (ill.)
Ages 10 and up. € 19.95
Release: April 2013
With this splendid book, the successful Dutch author Jan Paul Schutten delivers a
new top-notch work! Here he shares what he’s discovered about life’s mysteries
and evolution. What is 'life' exactly? How did it come to exist? How do living things
reproduce? Why do all living things die? And what does Joey Spark from Regal Park
have in common with the shark? Or with the bacteria in his socks? These are just
some of the big questions Jan Paul Schutten lucidly addresses in his book.
Winner of the Nienke van Hichtrum prize 2013
Comic Strip Drawing with Sissy
Drawing a Comic Strip with Sissy and Kitty and Me
Gerrit de Jager
Softcover, 21 x 29.7 cm. 224 pages
Also as an app
Two titles about how-to-learn-comic-strip-drawing for children! Sissy and
Kitty are waiting in the cat basket. However, nothing happens because the
artist who draws their adventures is on vacation. With the reader’s Sissy and
Kitty can start their adventure. The result is a unique personal book, because every child creates her or his own solutions and situations.
Easy and fun books for children: comic strip drawing is not hard at all!
My Drawing Diary
Ceseli Josephus Jitta
Softcover. 15 x 20 cm. 224 pages
Ages 8 and up, € 9.95
Ideal for children to draw or paint their day-to-day life. On each page they
can fill in the date. But of course the book can also be used on a weekly
base! And if children lack inspiration, they may also find lots of tips and
examples, f.i. how to design your own dream-bedroom!
Etiquette for Kids
The Kid’s Ditz
Hardcover with black-and-white illustrations
11.8 x 16.7 cm. 128 pages
Learning good manners is important and makes life much easier. It helps us to get
along with each other in a respectful way. This applies to adults, but certainly to
children too. How should you behave at school, at the table and on the bus? This
handy book is filled with everyday questions about etiquette the come up amongst
children attending the upper levels primary school.
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Zero is a Strange Number
Henriette Boerendans
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Henriette Boerendans’ beautifully illustrated artwork proves that a book about counting can be very special. In her latest endeavour, children learn to count along with
the number of babies an animal gives birth to, for instance: an elephant (1), a polar
bear (2) or a tiger (5). Children also learn other interesting things about these little
ones from the additional info included on the pages.
Reading Raven and Roe
A First Reader about Animals
Picture book. 24 x 20.5 cm. 64 pages
A bat, a fox, a rat, a pig and a cat – what do they have in common? In this book
first readers can read the names of the animals written in large, clear letters next
to the pictures. But the more advanced readers will also be able to read the text in
smaller print and thus learn all about all the special characteristics of each animal.
With beautiful illustrations made in woodcut.
Ape, Bear, Cheetah
With this lovely alphabet book children will be able to recognize different
letters and animals. Also with extra information about each animal,
for instance: why are flamingos pink and what does a Bear do in winter?
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Luna
Clash over a Lost Orca
Jet Bakels (txt) & Anouk Martijn (ill.)
Hardcover illustrated
22 x 27.6 cm. 112 pages
Luna is the true story of a young whale that gets separated from his family in 2001, only to
end up in a bay off Vancouver Island. This is the home of the Nootka Indians who believe
Luna is the spirit of one of their dead chiefs. Luna is very content living in the bay and he
becomes playfully gentle: too tame according to killer whale experts. They want to return
the animal to his pod. This leads to a huge clash in the summer of 2004 between the
scientists and the Indians, who are determined to keep their family close by.
A moving story, wonderfully illustrated by artist Anouk Martijn. With up-to-date and
spectacular photos of orcas and the Nootka Indians.
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Early Readers
Reading cases, each with 6 booklets of 16 pages
Text by Rian Visser with illustrations by Margriet van Noort,
Leo Timmers, Heleen Brulot, Caroline van Pelt
Because of the three different reading levels, these little
cases form the ideal starter package for readers
who are just getting going. Each booklet
has its own reading level, thus giving
children their self-confidence
a tremendous boost.
Blitz!
Rian Visser (txt) & Lars Deltrap (ill.)
Hardcover, 14.5 x 22.5 cm. 144 pages
Release: April 2013
An original read-on-your-own book for children
who have just mastered the skill. An imaginative
and exciting story about an alien, named Blitz,
who lives all alone on the faraway planet of Zero.
Blitz is pleased with his life… until a bird named
Chirp happens to land on his planet. Only when
Chirp departs does Blitz realise he’s always been
alone. So Blitz builds himself a rocket and flies
to Earth to find himself a friend. But is there
anyone like him there?
Also available as an app
Who we are
Gottmer Publishing Group was established in 1940 by printer Jan Hendrik Gottmer.
More than seventy years later we have grown in a dynamic, versatile and modern concern with
a well established and distinguished publisher’s list and thirty people on staff.
What we do:
We publish a broad spectrum of popular books under a variety of imprints: Gottmer (children’s and
juvenile’s books), Altamira (mind, body & spirit), Hollandia (nautical books), Dominicus (travel guides)
and Becht (lifestyle). You may find a selection of our wide-ranging list on our website.
Gottmer Publishing Group
Renée Ferment, foreign rights
Zijlweg 308
NL 2015 CN Haarlem
P.O.Box 317
NL 2000 AH Haarlem
Tel +31 23 54 111 90
Fax +31 23 51 744 04
Website www.gottmer.nl
E-mail [email protected]
Melanie Lasance, publisher
Marieke Spaans, comm.ed. picturebooks
Carine van Wijk, comm. ed. fiction, non-fiction
Janneke Blankevoort, comm. ed. fiction, non-fiction
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