Matey
Pieter Koolwijk & Linde Faas
Trim size: : 14,3 x 21,5 cm | 256 pages
An amazing new book by this peerless duo
Ties has a problem. At least that’s what most people think. Ties doesn’t think so. He has a friend: Matey!
Matey is the coolest, the nicest, and the funniest friend you can imagine. And he is everywhere. At school, at home, at the scrapyard. It’s just that Ties is the only one who can see and hear Matey. And Matey’s plans are usually so fantastic that it lands Ties in all sorts of trouble. At a certain point Ties’s parents just can’t handle it anymore. They decide to take him to Hope Sweet Home for a while, to get rid of Matey. But Ties doesn’t want to lose Matey. Why should he give up his best friend, just because others can’t see him?
Matey is a wonderfully exciting, typical Koolwijk-funny and moving story, all at the same time.
is a wonderfully exciting, typical Koolwijk-funny and moving story, all at the same time.
Why should something not exist, just because most people can’t see it?
Perhaps it isn’t Ties but all of us who have a mental limitation?
Award winner for the Best Dutch Childrens’ Book 2021
Rights sold: Macedonia
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.
