When Daisy’s Grandma dies, the girl realises to her surprise that she barely knew her and that her mother does not seem particularly upset. Daisy goes to stay with her kind, sensible Grandad, to cheer him up a bit in his loneliness. There begins the search for the woman who was her grandmother. Like a cunning, dogged detective, bit by bit she pieces together what has never been talked about in the family and why.
Translation of:
Krassen in het tafelblad
Year of publishing: 1987
Publisher: Oetinger; Hamburg
Binding: gebonden
Hans Georg Lenzen
Post, Mance
Children's book
German
Present in library Dutch Foundation for Literature
Guus Kuijer (1942) debuted in the mid-seventies, when children’s books were rediscovered as a weapon in the struggle for a better world. His five books about Madelief (Daisy) were an immediate success. As a true disciple of Annie Schmidt, he does not make the children any better behaved or the…
