Author

Dieter Schubert

Ingrid Schubert and Dieter Schubert are married and work together. In 1977 they attended the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, where the well-known Dutch illustrator Piet Klaasse inspired them to start illustrating children’s books. Their first title, There’s a Crocodile Under My Bed!, was an immediate success and published in fourteen countries. In 1987 they were awarded the Golden Paintbrush for Where’s My Monkey?

Ophelia

Ophelia

(Lemniscaat, 2008, 26 pages)

A tubby little hippo is happily bobbing around on her back in an African pond. Her name is Ophelia and the illustration is a reference to the famous painting by John Everett Millais. But unlike the English painter’s tranquil picture, in which Hamlet’s heroine serenely floats along a river amongst luxuriant vegetation, Ingrid and Dieter Schubert’s Ophelia is the very image of chubby cheerfulness.

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