Annet Schaap
Annet Schaap (1965) studied at two art schools and a writers’ school before releasing her 2017 debut Lampje (Lampie), which won the Gouden Griffel, Woutertje Pieterse Prijs, Nienke van Hichtumprijs and the Flemish Boekenleeuw awards. Popular among children and adults alike and translated into 28 languages, the book was also made into a successful film adaptation by Juliet at Pupkin and VPRO. Lampie was followed by her picture book De boom met het oor and a collection of stories entitled De meisjes. Krekel, set in the world of Lampie, was released in 2025.
She has since gained international acclaim as the author of the enchanting adventure Lampje (Lampie, 2017). This book was promptly labelled a classic after publication and received rave reviews. Schaap won all the major children’s books prizes in the Netherlands and also received a number of awards in other countries, including a place on the shortlist for the Carnegie Medal. The rights have since been sold to 22 countries and more than 130,000 copies have been bought in Dutch-speaking areas.
More Annet Schaap
Lampie and the Children of the Sea
Emilia lives in a lighthouse with her father. He has a wooden leg, drinks too much and makes his daughter do all the work. In the harbour town, everyone calls her Lampie, or ‘little lamp’. During a terrible storm, Lampie realises she’s forgotten to buy matches and so the lighthouse lamp remains unlit and a ship smashes into the rocks.
The Girls
Annet Schaap selected seven fairy tales as the basis for this dazzling collection of stories, The Girls. Two Perraults, five Brothers Grimm. But these are certainly not faithful adaptations. Schaap takes what she can use from the old stories and then follows her own path.
The Tree with the Ear
‘Something happened today in gym class.’ A little boy is bursting to tell the big news that’s bubbling away inside him, but no one has time to listen to him.
Cricket
Every reader will be enchanted by this all-ages fairy tale.