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Leopold news Frankfurt 2018 exciting news and recent prizewinners: Time to celebrate! A Letter for the King by Tonke Dragt is to become a worldwide Netflix Original series A Zilveren Penseel (Silver Paint 3x3 International Picture brush) for And Then, Sheherazad, Book Show No.15 – A silver and Then? by Imme Dros and medal for Paul Poiret – Annemarie van Haeringen Dreaming of the Orient by Enzo PérèsLabourdette Luchs Prize June 2018 (awarded Hey, Who’s in the Loo? by Die Zeit and Radio Bremen) for reaches the top of the Gideon Samson’s Island Days Irish children’s picture book chart! Don’t Tell Me What I Am by Erna Nobody’s Girl Nominated Sassen winner of the BruutTAAL for the BruutTAAL Golden List 2018 Golden List 2018 Translation grants: Leopold Publishers The Dutch Foundation for Literature supports writers and Postbus 1050 translators and promotes Dutch literature abroad. Foreign publishers may apply for a subsidy towards translation costs. 1000 BB Amsterdam, For information and application forms: Dutch Foundation The Netherlands for Literature, Agnes Vogt, [email protected], Rights Manager: Sophie Mulder Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89, 1018 VR Amsterdam, [email protected] T +31 (0)20 520 7300, www.letterenfonds.nl www.leopold.nl Leopold news Frankfurt 2018 recent rights sold: Italian (Il Castoro), The Horror Bus Lithuanian (Nieko Rimto) Swedish (Tukan) Swedish (Tukan), German (Freies parts 1, 2 and 3 Armenian (Zangak-97) Geistesleben) French (Bayard Presse Editions), Korean (Gimm- Young Publishers) Complex Chinese (Cotton German (Freies Japanese (Bunka Gakuen) Japanese (Bunka Gakuen) Simplified Chinese Tree Publishing House) Geistesleben) and Arabic (Kalima) (Guangxi Normal University Press Group) German (Freies Swedish (Berghs) Russian (Strecoza) German (Moritz Verlag) Swedish (Berghs) Geistesleben) LEOPOLD BOOKS Tonke Dragt The Letter for the King fiction age 10+ • Winner of the Griffel der Griffels, best book of all times! • A young squire, a dangerous mission, the struggle between good and evil • An exciting comingofage story set in the Middle Ages • Translated into more than 22 languages! The Letter for the King will be a Worldwide Netflix Original series! ‘The plot is central, and Tiuri sat up and looked at the that he must not talk to anyone extrememly gripping, but the window. He couldn’t see anything during the night of vigil before writing also delivers lovely detail – not even a shadow – so perhaps his knighting ceremony. He opens and evocative description’ he could even think he’d imagined the door. The strange visitor’s – The Guardian it. If only that were true! But there request turns out to involve a was no way he could do as the very dangerous mission. As he ‘It’s not a Dutch medieval world, voice had asked, no matter how journeys to deliver an extremely but an imaginary one. Most great urgent it sounded. He buried important letter to King Unauwen, books transcend their national his face in his hands and tried to Tiuri is pursued by the vicious Red setting and language and can clear his mind. Again he heard the Riders, who threaten his life. But speak to people anywhere.’ voice, very clearly, even though Tiuri is determined to reach the – Adam Freudenheim in The it was no more than a whisper. ‘In king. The Black Knight with the Independent the name of God, open up!’ Tiuri White Shield must not have died breaks the rules, which declare in vain… more by tonke dragt: FRANKFURT 2018 FRANKFURT Original title: De brief voor de koning 14 x 21,5 cm | 464 pages For more information about available language rights, please contact us www.leopold.nl [email protected] LEOPOLD BOOKS Tonke Dragt The Goldsmith and the Master Thief fiction age 10+ • Classics by Tonke Dragt, for all ages • Stories full of adventure1 and entertaining twists! 2 Tonke •Dragt Emphasis on the strong3 band between twinbrothers, 4 despite their different5 characters 6 7 Verhalen van de tweelingbroers 8 Tonke Dragt’s work has been9 translated into more vrij naar babinase balladen 10 than 22 languages! 11 12 13 14 15 Jiacomo is one of16 twins. He is is crafty enough to become an the spitting image17 of his brother excellent thief... A goldsmith and Laurenzo, but they18 are as different a master thief who look so similar 19 as night and day. 20Laurenzo wants they can easily take each other’s to make beautiful21 things and place – there are many stories to becomes a goldsmith.22 Jiacomo tell about how lives diverge and 23 loves travel and adventure24 and come back together again. 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 more by leopold/amsterdam tonke dragt: 36 37 38 Tweelingbroers_voorwerk.indd 3 10-12-2007 16:26:48 FRANKFURT 2018 FRANKFURT Original title: De goudsmid en de meesterdief 14 x 21,5 cm | 364 pages For more information about available language rights, please contact us www.leopold.nl [email protected] LEOPOLD BOOKS Milja Praagman Join us! picture book age 3+ • Picture book for the Dutch Children’s Book Week 2018! • By the creator of the Picture Book of the Year 2013: Another 100 Nights to Sleep • With the heartwarming and important theme of ‘friendship’ There’s something on Kit and ‘Milja Praagman has previously ‘Milja Praagman has a fresh and Pelle’s patch of grass. Something illustrated for magazines Okki, contemporary style, and sticks that wasn’t there yesterday... Bobo and Taptoe, and for Sesame closely to what interests small Extraordinary, colourful picture Street, but she also has a whole children.’ – de Volkskrant on book about friendship and the series of picture books to her Another 100 Nights to Sleep power of imagination. name. They all have a certain sweetness as well as naughtiness ‘Familiar and relatable for toddlers about them, and the illustrations and young children.’ – Jaap Leest are always colourful and lively.’ on Look at This! – Gooi en Eemlander on Another 100 Nights to Sleep also by milja praagman: Complex Chinese Simplified Chinese (Cotton Tree (Juvenile & Children’s Publishing House) Publishing House) and Danish (Turbine Forlaget) FRANKFURT 2018 FRANKFURT Original title: Kom erbij! Full color | 24 x 29 cm | 32 pages www.leopold.nl [email protected] LEOPOLD BOOKS Imme Dros & Annemarie van Haeringen And then, Sheherazad? And then? age 10+ Tales of Thousand and One Nights • Winner of the Zilveren Penseel (Silver Paintbrush) 2018, one of the most prestigious prizes for illustration • Illustrator Annemarie van Haeringen has won a total of 3 Silver and 3 Golden Paintbrush awards • Nominated for the Woutertje Pieterse Prize 2018 • A unique selection from the original One Thousand and One Nights stories, retold by Imme Dros Winner Zilveren Penseel (Silver Paintbrush) 2018 A long time ago in a land far first night, Scheherazade tells the away… lived the young king king a story that is not finished Shahryar, who discovered that his by the morning. Shahryar lets her wife was being unfaithful to him. live another day in order to hear Crazy with heartbreak, he had the ending the following night. her killed. Then, every night, he But the story segues into another took a new bride, whom he had story that will not be concluded by beheaded by his visor the next the morning. The betrayed ruler morning. Until Scheherazade, the cannot resist the incomplete, and visor’s daughter, asks her father if the nights come round again and she can be the next bride. On the again… ‘Dros writes in a flowing metre, ‘Imme Dros has made a vibrant choosing her own approach that new selection from the One fits her passion for storytelling Thousand and One Nights and does justice to the oral stories. Beautifully illustrated by narrative tradition of the fairy Annemarie van Haeringen.’ tales.’ – NRC Handelsblad – de Volkskrant FRANKFURT 2018 FRANKFURT Original title: En toen, Sheherazade, en toen? – Uit de verhalen van duizend-en-een-nacht Full colour | 21,3 x 28,6 cm | 208 pages www.leopold.nl [email protected] LEOPOLD BOOKS Max Velthuijs Peekaboo with Frog board book age 2-6 • Play with Frog on every page! • Includes Frog doll with magnetic hands • Board book, not easily ripped also available: Frog has a new game. He goes straight to Duck’s house to try it out! But she’s not at home. He can’t show it to Bear and Rat either. And there’s no answer at Hare’s door. Where is everyone? What should he do now? Fortunately Frog’s friends are always there for him! FRANKFURT 2018 FRANKFURT Original title: Kiekeboe met Kikker Full colour | 16 x 16 cm | 16 pages For more information about available language rights, please contact us www.leopold.nl [email protected] LEOPOLD BOOKS Max Velthuijs Frog and the Shooting Star picture book age 2-6 • About shooting stars, wishes and unconditional friendship • Adapted into a brilliant stage production by Theater Terra, a wellknown Dutch theatre company Wonderful new classic Frog picture book Frog and his friends were sitting on a They waited patiently but nothing All the friends make a wish. hill outside, looking at the beautiful happened for a very long time. And Except for Frog. He goes home, starry sky. then, suddenly... sad. ‘If you see a shooting star, you can ‘There it is!’ cried Pig and Duck. But Frog wouldn’t be Frog if he make a wish,’ said Hare. Everyone saw it, but at that very didn’t wish for something nice for ‘What’s a shooting star?’ asked Frog. moment Frog was looking the other his friends. And his friends come ‘You’ll see,’ said Hare, ‘but watch way… up with a plan to show Frog a closely because it goes very fast.’ shooting star after all.