Pond Full of Ink

A Pond Full of Ink

Annie M.G. Schmidt; illustrated by Sieb Posthuma; translated by David Colmer
Eerdmans, 2014
ISBN 9780802854339

Hardcover, 34 pp.
8.66 X 10.57 X 0.33 inches | 0.79 pounds

This delightful collection of poems offers children and the young at heart a refreshing, inventive look at the world from the well-known Dutch author, Annie Schmidt. The rollicking poems tell the stories of such intriguing characters as three elderly otters who long to go boating but find themselves biking instead, animated furniture that comes to life when no one is home, and Aunt Sue and Uncle Steve who nest up in a tree! 

The poems in A Pond Full of Ink transform ordinary events and places into extraordinary adventures full of imagination, much like the work of Shel Silverstein or Jack Prelutsky. Accompanying the poems is bold and expressive artwork that makes this book too charming to resist.