Jip and Janneke Author:Annie M. G. Schmidt, David Colmer (Translator) For more than fifty years, Jip and Janneke have been the Netherlands' favourite and most famous preschoolers. They are best friends who play together, argue, get into mischief and eat too many sweets. Even modern children have no trouble identifying with these timeless adventures. — Annie M.G. Schmidt (1911-1995) wrote the stories with her ch... more »aracteristic sense of humour. Fiep Westendorp provided the iconic, black-and-white illustrations. Schmidt and Fiep Westendorp (1916-2004) are the uncrowned queens of Dutch children's literature. Now in English.« less