The Summer I Spent in a Caravan

Evelien Feltzer

A sunny setting at a campsite and a brave heroine Recognisable topics for many children: moving, starting a new friendship, etc. Empathetically and realistically written from a child’s perspective

Juno is extremely disappointed. Over the summer her parents have bought a campsite in a hamlet on the other side of the country. However, to Juno it feels like the other side of the world. Goodbye school. Goodbye friends. Goodbye leading role in the musicals. To show her parents how angry she really is, she decides to never leave the caravan are temporarily living in. However, everything changes when their neighbour’s caravan suddenly catches fire and Juno has no choice but to leave the caravan. That’s the night she meets Dean. He takes Juno along and shows her how special the campsite actually is. Is it still possible for her to start feeling at home again.

140 x 215 mm | 160 pages | 28,900 words B&W illustrations | hardcover | age group: 10+ all rights available

Evelien Feltzer was trained as a drama teacher at the ArtEZ University of Arts in Arnhem. That’s where she discovered how much she loved writing. In 2018 she made the longlist of the Hotze de Roosprijs for her debut Waterwatje. In 2019 her second children’s book Tien vragen aan mijn vader was published.