Luna
Pieter Koolwijk & Linde Faas
Luna isn’t really crazy!
Luna has voices in her head that bother her. That’s why she’s in Hopeful House. But recently, her life has got better: she can lodge at Ties’s house every weekend. His parents don’t think she’s crazy, and there’s Matey; the voice that keeps the other nasty voices away from her.
But the fine times come to an end when Luna’s mother takes her to her father’s deserted holiday park, so that the two of them could spend more time together. Luna doesn’t want to go. What on earth should she do with a mother who doesn’t understand her, stuck there in the middle of nowhere, with nothing to do?
Although… nothing? Matey has come with them. It turns out that the holiday park is not as deserted as they thought…
Pieter Koolwijk once again shows us that the world is much larger than it seems at first glance. So who is crazy? Luna, who hears voices, or the people who don’t hear them? And who on earth is El Malo?
‘El Malo,’ says Matey. ‘That’s our adventure.’
I looked after the woman with the children. ‘El Malo,’ I said softly. ‘What could that be?’
‘It could be anything, Loen. A monster. A magical witch. Even a man who secretly licks your ears when you’re not looking.’
I shake my head. ‘I think it’ll be something a lot worse.’
‘Then you’ve never had your ears licked.’
‘You’re right…’ And yet I was certain that this would be a lot scarier than anything Matey could imagine. For this was not fantasy.
This was real.
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Luna is a book about the world of Gozert (Matey), but it can also be read independently.
About the author
Pieter Koolwijk’s stories always probe the outer reaches of reality. He came to fame in the world of juvenile literature with his books about Flea and Spikey. These were followed by Ben’s Boat, Boss of the World and Goo.
About the illustrator
LINDE FAAS graduated cum laude from the Breda art academy. She works as an animator of cartoons, and internationally as an illustrator.
For Lemniscaat she illustrated, among others, the books by Pieter Koolwijk about Flea and Spikey and Goo, and the non-fiction titles Cola Fountains and Splashing Paint Bombs and Spurting Arteries and flooded Oceans with Jesse Goossens. After her picture book debut Come with me in 2018, The Boy and the Whale was published.
For Lemniscaat she illustrated, among others, the books by Pieter Koolwijk about Flea and Spikey and Goo, and the non-fiction titles Cola Fountains and Splashing Paint Bombs and Spurting Arteries and flooded Oceans with Jesse Goossens. After her picture book debut Come with me in 2018, The Boy and the Whale was published.
