Her rhyming stories for young readers feature characters including No-Hand Jon, Wooden-Leg Joop and Eyeless Jeff, who have been taken under the loving wing of Father Pirate.

The picture-book stories were illustrated by Sieb Posthuma, who was a master at finding the right balance between humour and tragedy. When Aadje writes a letter to his mother, because he misses her very much, he gets some help from No-Hand Jon, a kind pirate whose hair is sculpted into the same shape as the hook on his arm. Sitting on a canon, the two of them write a sensitive letter.

This book contains the best stories about the beloved young pirate. An endearing read-aloud book packed with great humour and pace and with compassion for the eccentric characters in our world.