If lucky we might stay up reading a book, such as the Travels and Adventures of Mister Prikkebeen, the skinny butterfly catcher, who found his wife inside a whale.
After a number of calamities, he was able to raise a happy family with his eight stepchildren. Everybody in The Netherlands knew the story of this leggy maniac with his odd habits and his sister Ursula.
Books that captivated us were ‘The Light House’ with its bandits, than of course the works of Karl May who wrote those captivating Indian stories like ‘Winnitou’ and ‘Old Shatterhand’.
Arendsoog was another exciting book we devoured.
Plenty of gripping pages in ‘Maskers Af’ or the humor, laughter and tenderness in editions of ‘Piggelmee’, comical ‘Tom Poes’ with his lumbering, clumsy bear friend ‘Ollie B. Bommel’ the gruesome adventures of ‘Bulletje&Boonestaak’, ‘Dik Trom’, ‘Pietje Bell’ or ‘Monki’s reis om de wereld’, (Monkey’s travel around the world) just to recall a few.