"The best picture book maker (...) we currently have in the Netherlands." —— NRC Handelsblad on Tjibbe Veldkamp

★ An instant classic with a vintage feel
★ English sample translation available

On a ship lived a rat. It stole what it liked and if you got close, it would bite your finger. One day the ship sank. “Gotcha!” said the rat, and he climbed onto the best piece of wreckage he could find. The rat washes up on a beach to find a girl who has lost her mother. The rat observes the situation for a while - and saves the girl once or twice - and then decides to steal her. Gotcha! The rat has never stolen anything more beautiful. But then her mother comes looking for her. Now what?

Tjibbe Veldkamp wrote a delightful story book about a reluctant friendship. Sophie Pluim turned it into an instant classic with a vintage look.

As soon as you see this book, you’re bound to think: Gotcha!

TJIBBE VELDKAMP
writes picture books, stories for young children and young adult novels. Lemniscaat previously published his picture books Bert, get off the Crane!!, Tom the Tamer and most recently But fi rst I caught a monster which won the 2021 Silver Slate award.

SOPHIE PLUIM
studied at the HKU University of the Arts in Utrecht. She now works independently as an illustrator. As she herself says: ‘I like to create worlds with grit and personality. I give you punks and princesses, post-apocalyptic folklore, meditations in a sandstorm and dancing in the wind. Let’s voyage into the unknown and make sure we feel at home there.