War and Friendship
It is, of course, no coincidence that the boy on the front of 'Oorlog en vriendschap' (War and Friendship) wears exactly the same distinctive round glasses as the 88-year-old author Dolf Verroen. The protagonist may be called Joop, but his experiences are the wartime memories of Verroen himself.
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Author
Dolf Verroen
Age category
10+
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The greatest asset of 'War and Friendship' is Verroen’s unemotional tone, the small sentences that embody a life.
NRC
'War and Friendship' hits the bullseye.
Het Parool
Dolf Verroen
Dolf Verroen (b. 1928) is a grand old man of Dutch children’s literature. His first children’s book came out in 1957 and sixty years later he has more than a hundred titles to his name, a number of which have won Zilveren Griffel awards.