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Het Zakmes

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1981 Dutch children's novel by Sjoerd Kuyper This article is about the novel. For the film based on it, see The Pocket-knife.

Het Zakmes is a children's novel by Dutch writer Sjoerd Kuyper. It was first published in 1981. The novel is about a young boy called Mees who has difficulty returning a penknife to his friend in another town.

The 1992 film based on the novel, The Pocket-knife, won several awards including the Golden Calf. A television series based on the book won an International Emmy Award for children's programming in 1993.

References

  1. Het Zakmes at WorldCat
  2. Golden Calf winners earlier editions
  3. International Emmy Awards – Previous Winners Archived 2017-10-19 at the Wayback Machine. Translated as The Penknife


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