Pim Lammers
Pim Lammers (b. 1993) is one of the most important and innovative voices in the Dutch-language children’s books landscape. Lammers won a White Raven award for 'De boer en de dierenarts', about the love between two men. Pim’s debut Het lammetje dat een varken is, featuring illustrations by Milja Praagman, came out in 2017 and won a Zilveren Griffel, making him the youngest ever winner of the award. In 2025, Lammers won another Zilveren Griffel for Een ongelofelijk grote, ongelofelijk gevaarlijke leguaan, a picture book about a little boy who is at first embarrassed by his ordinary family that turns out to be quite extraordinary. His work, which focuses on diversity, also includes books for young readers, 10+ and poetry .
More Pim Lammers
The Lamb Who Was a Pig
A lamb playing in the mud? That’s not really the done thing. The sheep and the pigs all say he’s mad, but the lamb doesn’t get it. He’s a pig, isn’t he? So the farmer takes him to the vet, who uses a shaver and curling tongs to give him a new identity.
I Think I Was Kidnapped
About struggling with homework, about not being a man but not a woman either, about families with two dads and divorce problems, about jealousy, death and bullying – Pim Lammers writes with the greatest ease about all kinds of issues that might have an impact on children’s lives today. What is interesting is that he doesn’t write about the child but from the child’s point of view. This empathetic perspective, coupled with Lammers’s choice of subjects, makes this collection most definitely a mirror of our modern age.
Runaway Days
A touching and funny story about running away and coming back home to the people you love
Have You Forgotten that Baby Goats Exist
Hopeful poems about the big and small joys in life