★ The new book published after "NORTH", which title won several international awards and has been sold to Germany, France, Italy, Russia, Turkey, South Korea, Mainland China & Taiwan!
★ English sample translation available.

After spending time in the Arctic, where she was inspired for her illustrations in North, Marieke ten Berge now moves to the Dutch polder landscape. In her signature style and the brilliant colours of nature, she portrays 36 animals, from the black-tailed godwit and the serotine bat to the badger, the grass snake and the weasel.
Eva Moraal gives the animals their voice.

Did you know:
- spoonbill chicks are called ‘teaspoons’ in other countries?
- godwits can fl y at a speed of 130 km/h?
- the expression ‘smells like a polecat’ comes from the smelly liquid that polecats can spray over a distance of half a metre when they feel threatened?
- rabbits cannot sweat?
- an adult hedgehog has eight thousand spines?

Discover this - and much more - in Polder!

EVA MORAAL
is an author, editor and writing coach for both individuals and publishers. She has a PhD in history and has published several stories. In 2012 her YA Current was published at Lemniscaat. When she is not engrossed in a book, she likes to be outside in nature, where she especially enjoys climbing rocks.

MARIEKE TEN BERGE
has a passion for nature. And she loves to convert that passion into illustrations in the widest sense of the word. Last year Lemniscaat published her stunning non-fi ction book North with texts by Jesse Goossens, and also the picture book Egg must hatch in partnership with Mariken Jongman. In 2021 she released her own fi rst picture book, Colour.