Keepvogel: De kijktoren

by Wouter van Reek

Coppernickel thinks glue is nice stuff. You can practically do anything you want with it. Repair the roof, for instance. Or glue a table on top so you can stand on it better. And a few more things, so you can look further. And a little further...

Keepvogel vindt lijm mooi spul. Daar kan je eigenlijk alles mee doen wat je wilt. Het dak repareren bijvoorbeeld. Of er een tafel op lijmen om beter te kunnen staan. En dan nog een paar spullen, om lekker ver te kunnen kijken. En nog iets verder...

32 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2007

About the author

Wouter van Reek is a Dutch writer of children's books and a film animator. Van Reek studied audiovisual design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Since 1994 he creates one short animation film each year for the Dutch version of “Sesame Street”. Van Reek is known for his animation series and picture books about Keepvogel (Coppernickel in the English version), a flightless bird with a red cape. The picture books have now been translated into six languages. Keepvogel en Kijkvogel in het spoor van Mondriaan (Coppernickel Goes Mondrian) won the Golden Apple at the 2011 Biennial of Illustration Bratislava, Slovakia.

In 2019, van Reek created the art picture book Escher, about on of the most famous graphic artists of all time, the Dutch M.C. Escher. Critics hailed Van Reek as the perfect illustrator to convey the work and world of Escher to a young public. Escher is translated into English in 2019.

Reviews

[Sylvia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Funny book to read to young children and view them the illustrations with many objects that can be named and thus increase their vocabulary. You can also talk about what can be done with the various objects. The figures are kept simple and the colors in the illustrations are soft and friendly. Yet the humor is not lacking in the story.