Review of the Day: A Pond Full of Ink by Annie M.G. Schmidt

A Pond Full of Ink

By Annie M.G. Schmidt

Illustrated by Sieb Posthuma

Translated by David Colmer

Eerdmans Books for Young Readers

$16.00

ISBN: 978-0-8028-5433-9

Ages 7 and up

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International children’s authors are great. They’re just not particularly well known in America. There are various reasons for this. Some of it has to do with the dearth of international children’s book importing. Bringing a book over sometimes requires translation, and there’s often little hope of the writ...