WAIT: This isn't the right book. The one we read is called just 'Jip and Janneke' - not 'Jip and Janneke; Two kids from Holland.' That one's cool too; we have it, but it's not the story collection the other is. Read the whole just 'Jip and Janneke' to my daughter (who is sick and voiceless) this morning. And she said - whispered, barely - that the stories made her 'feel better.' Five stars for that alone.

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Five stars also for being able to share with my 4-year-old girl (in English) the stories my Mommy read to me (in Dutch) when I was her age! And that Jip ('Yip,' it's pronounced, y'all), 'Jip's so silly.' I can't say that I precisely remember any of these short stories - think authentically silly, brilliant two-minute fiction about two little 4/5-year-old buddies, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny (even if you have no voice) and sometimes downright poignant, each one so good you can't help but want to read the next one for another hit of the magic. But I definitely remember the characters and, weirdly, I recognized a lot of myself and my writing in the writing of these perfect little ditties.

These are the style of stories I still love, the rhythm, the direction, the realness. These ain't Dora stories where nothing is plausible but, worse, the fantasy is ridiculous and lazy. Here everything that happens on these pages could, or, well, probably DID happen, perhaps thousands of times around the world to you and me and yours and mine. A talented Annie M.G. Schmidt probably simply had the good idea to chronicle her kid's play. And it worked!

We're let into these kids' world of believable make believe, and that's the beauty of it: Delivering the magic of the ordinary, the wonder of the world around a 4-year old, when uncles with beards are scary and cool, aunties with cars (hey, this is Holland in the '70s) are even cooler and chocolate bars, oh chocolate bars! And the types of payoffs each story provides! 'And they play marbles.' 'And that's fast, too.' ' 'Well,' says Mother, 'you asked for it.' ' - one-line conclusions that tie everything up satisfyingly, stylishly, funnily. And it all is so right on and.

Could I have been conditioned to love this type of story-telling, to want to tell stories like this because I was exposed to these stories way back when I was 4? Our favorite story, I think, judging by the silent and not-so-silent guffawing that took place: 'Bear falls out of the plane' And I just have to give anyone not reading this - 'cause who's reading this? - a sample: Jip has been to the airport with his father. He saw planes from very close.

'They're ever bigger than our house,' he tells Janneke. 'They're as big as from here to the church.' 'They can't be,' Janneke says. 'In the sky they're just teensy-weensy.' 'It's still true,' Jip says. 'And there are people inside. And the pilot sits at the front.

Shall we play aeroplanes?' They line up some chairs. And the piano stool is the steering wheel. Janneke is a lady who's going on the plane, and Dolly-dee and Bear are her children. Jip gets to be the pilot. 'Will you drive carefully, pilot?' Asks the lady.

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Says the pilot. 'We're not driving, we're flying.'

'Will you make sure my children don't fall out of the plane?' The lady asks again. 'I'll make sure they don't,' says the pilot.

'And here's a parachute in case they do. Just tie it on.' The plane takes off, up into the sky.

'Oh no,' the lady shouts, 'my children are getting so dizzy.' 'Too late now,' the pilot says. 'We're already a hundred feet up. We're already in Africa.' 'Oh no,' the lady shouts again.

'One of my children just fell out of the window.' 'Did she have a parachute?' The pilot shouts back. 'Then she's fine. We'll keep going.' 'The other one just fell out of the window as well,' the lady shouts.

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'Did he have a parachute?' 'No, we only had one.' 'Then he's dead,' the pilot says. The lady screams.

'We have to land right away.' The plane goes back down to the ground. What a relief!

Both children are alive and kicking, Bear without a parachute and Dolly-Dee with a parachute. 'Goodbye, pilot,' says the lady.

'Thank you very much for the drive.' 'Goodbye, madam,' says the pilot.

And that's what I mean. You don't get away with writing a children's story about children falling out of airplanes and maybe dying unless you've convinced your readers that it's the kids telling the story, unless you KNOW it is the kids telling the stories. This is a wonderful story as told by Jip and Janneke. The two silhouettes spend the entire book taking you, the reader, on a trip across their country of Holland. The book is written as if Jip and Janneke were personally taking you around the country, showing you the absolute best things about Holland. They start out with the basics and talk about the King and Queen of Holland as well as the canals, windmills and tulips that Holland is known for. The story is then broken down in to the four seasons and what the Dutch do during these times.

Spring was mostly dedicated to Easter and how the children decorate eggs. Summer is all about ice cream, trips and hot lazy days. Autumn is the decline of weather and the fall fair. Winter brings snow and St Nicholas along with Christmas.

The book ends kind of abruptly after the winter section.