Get Your Child Reading During Kinderboekenweek 2022

It’s kinderboekenweek (children’s book week) time in the Netherlands. This is an annual celebration of kids’ literature and this year it runs from the 5th to the 16th of October. This year’s theme is nature (Gi-ga-groen) and it has been officially opened by Andy Griffiths and Marije Tolman.

Kinderboekenweek Activities

Dutch schools focus on kinderboekenweek and libraries and bookshops host special activities too – so jump on board and stimulate your children to up their Dutch reading skills at home too.

Free Book with Children’s Books Purchases

If you spend at least €12,50 on children’s books during the Kinderboekenweek, you get the ‘Waanzinnige boomhutverhalen’ by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton free.

The Kinderboekenweek 2022 Theme Titles

Here are some of the theme titles (all nature related) for this year’s Kinderboekenweek.

Improving Your Child’s Dutch Language Skills

If Dutch isn’t your child’s first language but goes to a Dutch speaking school, then reading is a fabulous way to help increase their vocabulary. Furthermore, it’s a fun way!

One way to stimulate your little readers to give reading in Dutch a go is to get the Dutch version of a book they have already read, or get them engrossed in well-known series (such as Dagboek van een Muts or De waanzinnige boomhut series). There are popular Dutch book tips here too.

*Tip: Remember that Sinterklaas and Christmas are around the corner……*