Bologna 2019 14+
Young adult Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem
• A historical novel about a girl in Napoleon’s army • About gender and identity • The author has won the Boekenleeuw twice
Iron Head
Eighteen-year-old Stans dreams of seeing something of the world, but her dreams come to an abrupt end when she has to marry a rich and pushy moneylender. Her marriage is a golden cage, and Stans runs away, unrecognizable in her husband’s clothes. She ends up in Paris, with Napoleon’s fourteenth company, where she must do whatever it takes to hide the fact that she is actually a girl. Hardback | 13.5 x 21.5 cm | 320 pages To be published in May 2019
For all ages
Graphic novel
Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem is the co-author of a number of awardwinning historical novels and has written films, television series and comic strips. Jonkvrouw (published in English as A Sword in Her Hand), which he wrote with Pat van Beirs, won various prizes and has been translated into nine languages.
Sample translation available ‘The very model of what a historical novel should be.’ – Boekenleeuw jury’s report about Jonkvrouw
P ET E R VA N D E N E N D E
Wanderer
Peter van den Ende
• A sensational graphic novel • A wordless story in pictures, packed with details • An impressive journey across the Seven Seas
Wanderer
On board a ship, a little boat is folded and carefully launched. Then the ship sails away, and the little boat is left all alone. The little boat sails across the ocean, past reefs and polar regions and between ice floes. It navigates through schools of fish, swaying water plants and terrifying sea monsters. It marvels at the wonderful fairy-tale world above and below the waves, survives storms and saves itself from perilous situations.
QUERIDO CHILDREN’S BOOKS
QUERIDO
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Hardback | 23 x 30.5 cm | 104 pages To be published in August 2019
When Peter Van den Ende , who is making his literary debut with this book, is not drawing, he works as a nature guide on the Cayman Islands. The beauty of the sea was his source of inspiration for this stunning wordless story about growing and learning, about ups and downs. In short: about life itself.
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Bologna 2019