De Koning (The king)
Author/illustrator: Dick Bruna
Series: Miffy and Friends
Original language: Dutch
Translated into English: not
Released: January 1996
Publisher: Mercis Publishing B.V.
ISBN13: 9789073991828
Price: € 7.95
Age: from 3 years and up
Today is King's Day and we read a book by writer/illustrator Dick Bruna and it's called De Koning. Could it be more appropriate? What can we say about Dick Bruna that nobody knows, the whole of the Netherlands knows who he is and what his book friends are called. Whole the Netherlands? From England to Japan, the whole world we should say.
The rhyming story is so much fun! The king has everything he could wish for, but he has no one to play with in the palace. The gardener's daughter lives in the garden and her name is Rose. The King and Rose always play together and after a while the King wants to marry Rose. But then the thin green ladies say: no no, that's really not possible! Rose has no crown, she is not a princess! The king is crying, now what to do?
3 bright shining stars for The King, from our youngest mini-monsters!