Edward van de Vendel writes for children and young adults: novels, poetry, picture books, non-fiction, and song lyrics. His books have won awards in The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and France, and he has twice been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (2011/2012), and once for the Hand Christian Andersen Award (2018). His books are translated into over twenty-five languages. More poetry in English is to be found in I'll Root for You (Eerdmans, 2018, also translated by David Colmer).