She was also a charter member of the Children's Book Guild and the only person to have served as its president for two consecutive terms. In the 1920s, she worked as an illustrator for the Dublin Born February 9, 1908, in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Hilda van Stockum was a noted author, illustrator and painter, whose work has won the Newbery Honor and the National Conference of Christians and Jews Brotherhood Award.
A penchant for art evidently ran in the family, which counted the van Goghs as distant relatives. With no car and few companions, she recalled turning to writing out of boredom. Van Stockum was raised partly in Ireland, and also in Ymuiden, the seaport of Amsterdam, where her father was port commander. The everyday occurrences seen through the eyes of Dirk Jan will captivate educate American boys and girls.Born February 9, 1908, in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Hilda van Stockum was a noted author, illustrator and painter, whose work has won the Newbery Honor and the National Conference of Christians and Jews Brotherhood Award.
Each chapter introduces readers to another aspect of life during these troubled times and reveals, with a ring of reality, the generousity and courage these people displayed. Young Dir Jan is sent on a mission by his Uncle Cor, an underground worker, and even six year old Joris a part. Nevertheless, mother rescues a Jewish baby whom she as her own, takes in two refugee Dutch girls her spirit high. With a landwatcher (a traitor who enforced the laws of the Nazia) living next door, the Verhagens have to exercise extra care. During these terrifying years, many acts of bravery were performed by loyal Dutchmen. It is here that an is safely hidden, and it is the action of the windmill that the crops of several farms. There is one hero in the story, the ""winged watchman"", a windmill on the Verhagen farm. This is a heartwarming story of a Dutch family during the Nazi occupation who managed not only to survive but to extend to a helping hand to many others.
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