Uit het leven van Dik Trom

In the Dutch village of Sliedrecht, young Dik Trom rules the canals and meadows with his boundless appetite and irrepressible mischief. This 1895 classic introduces us to a round, cheeky boy whose father insists, with weary affection, that "he's a special child, and that's what he is." Dik and his gang of friends navigate childhood adventures that involve stolen apples, escaped farm animals, cleverly worded lies to exasperated adults, and the occasional well-deserved punishment. Kieviet captures something eternal: the sheer joy of a child who sees the world as an endless playground, where a muddy puddle is a fortress moat and a forbidden wood is territory worth defending. The book endures because it remembers childhood exactly as children experience it: reckless, hungry, sorry-not-sorry, and endlessly inventive.