Are you allowed to steal bread when you are poor? Or to break in to rescue a pet in distress? Are you allowed to take a family member’s place in prison? These are all difficult questions. A criminal offence is when you do something that is not allowed according to the law. But whether you behave well or badly is not determined by the law alone.
In this book Stine Jensen and Ellie Lust get the reader to think about how complicated it can be sometimes to do the right thing and to know what the right thing is and why.

The beautiful illustrations are done by Marijke Klompmaker (‘Everything I Feel’ and ‘Everything That Once Was’).

A unique collaboration between three women who are each half of identical twins!

Ellie Lust (Amsterdam, 1966)
worked for 31 years as a police officer. In 2007 Ellie became the spokesperson for the Bureau of Communication for the Amsterdam Police Department. In 2005 the Dutch television audiences got to know Ellie for her appearances as the police spokesperson in the show ‘Most Wanted’. Since then, she has featured on several television shows. She starred in three seasons of ‘Ellie on Patrol’ in which she shadowed and worked with foreign police departments. Ellie is a popular expert for crime and security and often features on the television show ‘112 Today’. In 2020 her memoirs ‘My Years with the Police’ came out. ‘Everything That Is (Not) Allowed’ is her children’s book debut.