The Sourballs

Brothers Harry and Huibert were so sour, even the flowers on their wallpaper were wilting! They appear to be pretty content with their stagnant lives; day after day they soak their dentures in vinegar and eat pickled herring and nettle tea for breakfast. ‘The Sourballs’ is a tale of two bitter loners, stuck in a rut and clinging to obsolete habits. Their routine is disrupted when they receive a letter that turns their lives upside-down and uncovers a dark secret from their not-so-colourless past.

Picture novel
22 x 18 cm, 160 pages
Ages 8 and up
€ 15.00
Rights sold: German, Afrikaans

Story: Benjamin Leroy & Jaap Robben - Illustrations: Benjamin Leroy - Text: Jaap Robben
Published by De Geus Publishers (NL) - ISBN 9789044516715
Contact Jolijn Spooren at Singel/De Geus Publishers to get to know more about Foreign Rights:
j.spooren@singeluitgeverijen.nl

 

 Reviews

What a wonderful, cheeky children’s book!
— Frankfurter Allgemeine (DE)
Black humour, wonderfully oblique details, tickling full-page drawings and colored collages
— Badische Zeitung (DE)
Funny and cleverly subtextual
— NRC Handelsblad Newspaper (NL)
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