The Ministry of Solutions

The Ministry of Solutions and the Silverboy

Sanne Rooseboom, illustrations Mark Janssen

A humorous series about helping each other and doing the right thing, being adventurous but most of all about friendship

More than 50,000 copies sold! 57,000 copies sold in this series

We help everyone, not just those you like. That's one of the strict rules of the centuries-old Ministry of Solutions, which anonymously solves other people's problems. But in practice that rule is not easy for Nina. Because the Ministry wants to solve Ralf's problems, and Ralf is an aggressive bully.

Ralf is also a boy who is stuck in his parents' conflicting divorce. Things go bad at school, he hits children on the football field and he doesn't feel at home anywhere. The members of the Ministry, Alfa, Ruben, the old ladies Vis and Tirza, see how things are getting worse with Ralf and decide that they have to help him. And Nina? Nina participates. Reluctantly. Until she meets Ralf's aunt, the stubborn Dewi with her purple cockscomb. And until she finds out who Ralf's father is ...

The Ministry of Solutions faces perhaps the most difficult problem yet: how do you help someone you really don't like at all?

The Ministry of Solutions

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The Ministry of Solutions and the lost Van Gogh

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150 x 220 mm | ca. 170 pages | ca. 35,000 words | B&W illustrations | hardcover age group: 10+ | all rights available Sanne Rooseboom is a journalist and the author of children’s books. She studied political science and went on to work for newspapers, magazines and radio and as a correspondent in London. Mark Janssen studied at the Academy for Visual Arts in Maastricht. He illustrated several children's books and his work is known worldwide. In 2019, he was awarded the Kinderboekenwinkelprijs.

The Ministry of Solutions and the peculiar case of Mr De Haan

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