Buurkinderen

by H. Scheepstra, Jan Ligthart, C. Jetses (illustrator)

This book is a story about the children Jan, Grietje en Hiltje. They are brother and sisters, living in the early 20th century in a small village.
All kinds of adventures come on their paths when they are starting to widen their horizon from around the house to 'the village' and the reader goes along with them.
It pictures 'the typical family' like it was in villages at that time.

Genres: Childrens

280 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

Hindericus Scheepstra

Reviews

[Sylvia · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the collection of a series of textbooks used in the fifties and early sixties of the last century at primary schools. Being a K-12 kids by that time I learned to read using these books in class. I remember I loved the stories, although the characters doesn't have any connection with the lives of young kids after WWII. It's to romantic and idealized, but it's always nice to re-read them. The original prints of these books date back in the twenties and thirties.

[Grada (BoekenTrol) · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the third book in a series of four. A different family, but still the children and their adventures are the center of the book.
I wondered how things could have been so different back then. I am a city girl, not used to life at a farm or in a village. Being really glad that I had a bike, that my school was nearby, that I had leather shoes instead of the wooden shoes people used to walk on.
But all these differences made it the more intersting to read the book. It was not a new country, but still a new world that opened for me.