(1) 4-6 Translated by John Nieuwenhuizen. This sequel to Nine Open Arms follows the fortunes and adventures of the Boon family, in 1938 Netherlands, from the viewpoint of the young teen daughter Fing. Lindelauf does a stunning job, in this classic episodic family story, of showing the difficult relationships that war creates. Played out in a suspenseful action-filled plot, this is a welcome and distinctive addition to WWII literature for young people. Glos.

Reviewer: Sarah Ellis | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2019

(1) 4-6 Translated by John Nieuwenhuizen. In this Dutch import, a family of nine--hapless dreamer and cigar-maker father, tough grandmother, four almost-grown-up sons, and three younger daughters--moves into the titular house and tries to figure out its mysteries. While the setting is specific (the Dutch province of Limburg in the 1930s), the whole thing feels more like a folktale. This is a strange, somber, and oddly compelling narrative.

Reviewer: Sarah Ellis | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2014

(4) YA Translated by John Nieuwenhuizen. Re Jana moves with her fisherman father to the desert in order to escape the rising waters of the marshes. There they join up with the despised, ridiculed "Rrattika," a family building an enormous ark. This retelling of the biblical Flood story is packed with incident but overlong and tedious.

Reviewer: Jeannine M. Chapman

(2) YA Translated by John Nieuwenhuizen. Anna can't know that certain coincidences are the makings of a signal from her older brother, dead five years of AIDS. Another older brother, Michael, has been missing for two years in the former Yugoslavia, and now people and messages from Anna's past are suggesting that Michael may be alive. Sometimes diffuse with a shifting point of view, this Dutch import offers a spiky heroine up to the task of grappling with hard questions.

Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2002

(4) YA Translated by John Nieuwenhuizen. Morengaru, a hunter, is rejected by his people after he accidentally kills a man. His solitary journey across the African landscape leads him to a group of baboons; when he kills their leader, Morengaru becomes the simian king and helps the others fight a marauding leopard. Morengaru's experiences are very well observed, but the plot is often oblique in a novel that doesn't seem particularly geared toward young readers.

Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta