Nadia's Night
This is the first collection of stories about a child with two dads published in the Netherlands. As far as the five-year-old protagonist Nadia is concerned, her family situation is perfectly ordinary: ‘My mummy lives somewhere else. She’s my tummy mummy, and her name is Lin.’
Nadia’s lively toddler imagination gives the collection a unique atmosphere. In every story, the events have an extra, sometimes almost magical, dimension. On the beach, she imagines touching a shark’s wobbly tooth. When she’s in a meadow, she pictures the grass turning into spaghetti with red sauce raining down on it. The dreamy drawings are a perfect match for the stories, poised between reality and fantasy. This affectionate portrait of Nadia’s family, creates a close-knit, warm little world, which is a great place to be.