Tingle Books - foreign rights
Contract: licensing
Six picture books about six basic needs in life
The Tingle Books are a new series that consists of six picture books for children between 4 and 7. This series of animal stories is built around six basic needs adults!). The fact that they are not sufficiently met can lead to social-emotional problems. Each picture book deals with a specific need. The Tingle Books want to help children to live through the basic needs more intensively and to explore and deal with possible problems.
To adults the Tingle Books offer impulses to be more attentive to children’s problems and to explore sensitive issues with children. Each picture book deals with a specific need.
Tingle Books (6 volumes)
Genre: fiction
Age range 4-8
Format 21,5 x 26,5 cm - hardback 32 pages
Text by Luk Depondt
Illustrations (in full colour) by Marijke ten Cate, Kris Nauwelaerts & Riske Lemmens
Book design by Peer De Maeyer
- Silence! Stripes Sleeps!
This story is about (a fysical need and) a cat whose night’s rest is being disturbed by a terrible noise. Consequently it cannot enjoy its dinner and its play with a ball of wool.
- Poor Froggy!
This story is about (a need of attention and warmth and) a little frog that doesn’t get enough attention and warmth from its ‘cool’ parents. Fortunately there is a toad (with scary warts and bumps) that is gives its affection to the little frog.
- Where’s Homer’s Home?
This story is about (a need of safety and clarity and) a little rabbit that cannot find back its burrow and its friends. A small bird starts for a search and finally finds back the burrow ‘by a huge, thick tree’
- Casper’s Rat Plan
This story is about (a need of appreciation and) a rat that isn’t being taken seriously by its ‘friends’ (a cat and a dog). At the end the rat turns ou
t to have a solution for their problem: how to reach the other side of the river?
- Little Feather Flies!
This story is about (a need of feeling to be able to accomplish something and) a birdy that wants to learn to fly. Its mother doesn’t think it is ready yet. But the birdy perseveres and barely escapes from the attack of a big black cat.
- Laugh, Lilly, laugh!
This story is about (a moral need and) a little pig that always wants to be neat and diligent. But it is not feeling happy. Thanks to its Aunt it learns that being a gourmet, romping in the mud and lying in the sun go with the real life of a pig.
About the author (°1952)
Luk Depondt has publsihed picture books, stories and poetry for children with a focuss on sensitive issues. One of those series (‘Clown dares…’; ‘Snowman can…’ and ‘Ghost wants…’) was an international success.
The illustrators are Marijke ten Cate, Kris Nauwelaerts and Riske Lemmens. All three of them have a strong reputation in the world of the famous Flemish children’s books.
