Annie M.G. Schmidt

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born

May 20, 1911 in Kapelle, Netherlands

died

May 21, 1995

gender

female

genre

Poetry, Children's Books

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Anna Maria Geertruida Schmidt was a Dutch writer.

Although she wrote a variety of poems, songs, books, plays, musicals, and radio- en television drama, she is known best for her children's literature, for which she received the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1988. She committed suicide a day after her 84th birthday and was buried in Amsterdam.

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Books by Annie M.G. Schmidt

Average rating: 4.06 · 2,838 ratings · 76 reviews · 59 distinct works

	Pluk van de Petteflet by Annie M.G. Schmidt, Fiep Westendorp (Illustrator) 4.21 avg rating — 897 ratings — published 1971 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Jip en Janneke 4.18 avg rating — 427 ratings — published 1976 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Minoes 3.83 avg rating — 321 ratings — published 1970 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Otje 3.98 avg rating — 243 ratings — published 1980 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Floddertje 4.01 avg rating — 203 ratings — published 1973 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Wiplala 4.02 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 1957 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Abeltje en De A van Abeltje 3.61 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1980	My rating:
	Ziezo: De 347 Kinderversjes 4.06 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1991	My rating:
	Een visje bij de thee 4.18 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1983	My rating:
	Abeltje 3.74 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1953 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Series by Annie M.G. Schmidt

Jip en Janneke (9 books)
by Annie M.G. Schmidt, Fiep Westendorp (Illustrator)

4.16 avg rating — 564 ratings

Wiplala (2 books)
by Annie M.G. Schmidt

4.02 avg rating — 198 ratings

Abeltje (2 books)
by Annie M.G. Schmidt, Thé Tjong-Khing (Illustrator)

3.66 avg rating — 129 ratings

Quotes by Annie M.G. Schmidt

“Van wat een kind leest, onthoudt het maar een deel. Maar dat onthoudt hij ook zo goed, dat het zijn verdere leven met hem meereist, in zijn hart en in zijn bloed, het wordt een stuk van hemzelf.”
― Annie M.G. Schmidt

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