A girl rushes through the streets of Delft. She has important packages to deliver: letters, guitar strings, precious earrings... and a piece of blue stone called lapis lazuli. It’s for master painter Johannes Vermeer, who will use it to make a deep blue called ultramarine. It’s incredibly expensive, worth more than gold. For an instant, the girl wonders: her brothers and sisters are hungry, maybe she should sell the stone instead...? But after she knocks on Vermeer’s door, he makes her ...

I am mad and I so weep

Teacher is very ill and I can’t sleep.

I’m holding close my cuddly toy

‘cause teacher kissed it and sent me joy.

A story about saying farewell to a teacher.

A story in which a nursery teacher has to say farewell to her toddlers.

With pedagogical guidelines on how to speak with small children about mourning.

What is this nursery book about?

On an emotional evening at the seaside I took a small notebook and wrote down this story. In my book Teacher where are you? I...

Minako is on holiday with her parents. In Amsterdam, they are staying at a very large hotel in the heart of the city. There are mirrors all over the building. At breakfast, she sees four sad little boys who look exactly the same – oh no, there are only two! One set of twins at breakfast and one set in the mirror. The twins just turned six. Their grandmother got them a dog, but he ran away. Minako decides she’s going to help find him. But how do you find a very small dog in a very large ho...