Rien Poortvliet
Birth date: August 07, 1932
Died: September 15, 1995
Rien Poortvliet's Books
The art is still lovely, but the text is so twee, so folksy and back-to-nature, but also sexist as hell. Library copy
Received for Christmas 2013. Way cute.
My parents had this book on the coffee table in the family room growing up. I loved this book, I would frequently look at and make up stories, so I suppose it's unfair to say that I've actually read it, I've read parts of it, but probably not the whole thing - the pictures were far to captivating.
I can’t believe I had gone through so many years, working in libraries, without discovering this gem until this past week. Since gnomes make up a big part of this year’s summer reading theme, I have a gnome display on the bulletin board in the children’s area. One of my coworkers and I started talki...
Absolutely adored this book as a child - my parents had it in their bookcase & I spent hours pouring over it. I Very very much wanted to believe that gnomes & faieries (& smurfs for that matter) were real. Good memories.
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