The Ministry of Solutions

from Children Bologna 2022

Who is Adam Westerman?

and the Silverboy Sanne Rooseboom, illustrations Mark Janssen

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

More than 120,000 copies sold!

120,000

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 an eleven-year-old. Because the Ministry wants to solve Ralf's problems, and Ralf is such an unpleasant and angry boy that Nina does not want to help him.

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 his only friend wants him to steal things. The members of the Ministry, Alfa, Ruben, the old ladies Mrs Vis and Tirza, decide that they have to help him. And Nina? Nina participates. Reluctantly.

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

140 x 215 mm | 240 pages | 51,000 words B&W illustrations | hardcover age group: 10+ | all rights available Sanne Rooseboom studied international relations and then started working as a journalist in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. She made her debut as author of children’s books with her book Jippie! (Yay!) , a moody fairy tale, followed with the successful series Het Ministerie van Oplossingen (The Ministry of Solutions). Mark Janssen studied at the Academy for Visual Arts in Maastricht and his work is known worldwide. In 2019, he was awarded the Kinderboekenwinkelprijs.