The Little Captain
Author: Paul Biegel
Illustrator: Carl Hollander
Original language: Dutch
Translated into English by: Patricia Crampton
Published: June 2022
Publisher: Pushkin's Children's Books
ISBN13: 9781782693376
Price: € 11.95 (paperback)
Age: 9 years old and up
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of THe little Captain (De Kleine Kapitein) by the Dutch master writer Paul Biegel (1925-2006), Gottmer published a beautiful omnibus with all 3 stories.
The stories are captivating, exciting but also adventurous and funny. Paul Biegel received a Dutch Golden Stylus Award for The Little Captain and in our opinion it is rightly a Dutch children's classic. Sadly the omnibus is not translated into the English language, but on the bright side Part one is translated in a paperback version. If you want read a book that never gets boring, choose a Paul Biegel book, you can't go wrong with it! The little monsters really like this book and so do we!
Dutch illustrator Carl Hollander's funny illustrations are still the same as back then, in the first edition. They are a sign of the times and still have that 70's retro look and feel. A nostalgic pleasure for parents and grandparents to see that The Little Captain and the other children in the book still look the same as back then.
3+ radiant shining stars for The Little Captain, from our young listeners and from the readers, who once themselves listened to the little Captain with great pleasure!