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Annie M.G. Schmidt

Er is maar één schrijfster die zich de ongekroonde koningin van Nederland mag noemen en dat is Annie M.G. Schmidt (1911-1995). Haar werk is Nederlands cultuurgoed. Drie generaties zijn al (voor)lezend, zingend en declamerend vergroeid met haar kinderboeken, liedjes en versjes, waarin het Hollandse huishouden met venijnige tederheid en humor op z’n kant wordt gezet. Schmidts personages wortelen stevig in de Nederlandse klei, maar tegelijk kennen hun avonturen een flinke dosis fantasie. Kleine, onafhankelijke geesten zijn het, die zich niet laten koeioneren door de volwassenen om hen heen. Ze heten Pluk of Abeltje of Otje of Floddertje of Wiplala. Ze rijden rond in een rood kraanwagentje (Pluk), vliegen in een lift het warenhuis uit (Abeltje) of kunnen met dieren praten (Otje).

Minoes

Minoes

(Querido Kind, 1970, 150 pagina's)

Minoes is a glorious, original and funny story. The theme, the openness of the main characters and the choice of words – all of these elements are equally unexpected. As in her other books, Annie Schmidt allows the weak to triumph against authority. In this story, the tetchy, grubby stray cat gets all of the attention and protection and the most powerful man in town gets it in the neck. Minoes is also the book that Annie Schmidt loved best and the one for which she won a Silver Slate Pencil in 1971. It has been translated into many languages and was successfully filmed in 2001.

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Pluk van de Petteflet

Pluk van de Petteflet

(Querido Kind, 1971, 167 pagina's)

There is probably one only children’s book in the world where a cockroach is cherished as a pet and that is Pluk van de Petteflet. Shy little Zaza, content with a piece of apple peel now and again, can be seen as a symbol for the contrariness in all Schmidt’s works. Everything has to be just that little bit different, freer, with more room to manoeuvre. In anything but dignified language, Schmidt creates a world in which children and animals – and the odd nice adult – struggle against hypocrisy and bourgeois respectability. Not too wild, not aggressive, but in a friendly, funny way. ‘Nice and naughty’, as she once called it herself in a poem.

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