Floor Rieder (b. 1985) is best known for her illustrated interviews in Dutch newspaper. The Mystery of Life (2013) was her impressive book debut. It was awarded the Golden Paint Brush, the country’s most prestigious illustration prize for children’s books.
Jan Paul Schutten’s energetic account of the amazing story of evolution and the origins of life, with his precise yet light-hearted tone, is truly unique and a most admirable achievement. Het raadsel van alles wat leeft (The Mystery of Life) is the ultimate non-fiction book for children: inspirational and a model of how a subtle balance between facts, images and imagination can make the invisible visible.
Floor Rieder (b. 1985) won the Golden Paint Brush, the country’s most prestigious illustration prize for children’s books, with her debut Het raadsel van alles wat leeft (written by Jan Paul Schutten, published in English as The Mystery of Life).
Multiple Gouden Griffel winner Daan Remmerts de Vries has written a humorous story about a monster who doesn’t seem too bad at first, but turns out to be just a mean old cyclops in the end. He rewards the helpful locals who give him an eyeglass for his short-sighted eye by flattening their village.
From the Big Bang to Einstein’s theory of relativity, and from supernovas to reverse gravity: in this book, non-fiction writer Jan Paul Schutten and illustrator Floor Rieder manage to present the most complex of subjects in an accessible and appealing way, one step at a time and with a great sense of humour.
