Ciske the Rat is the story of eleven-year-old lonely street child Ciske Vrijmoeth, who has no friends and is only called "the rat". The setting is in Amsterdam in the 1930s. Ciske has to change school, because he poured ink over his teacher's head. After school, he helps out in a pub, where his mother Marie also works. His beloved father Cor is a fisherman and therefore not at home. The story is told by his new teacher Bruis, who gives him a chance.
This edition contains the first and second volumes of the Ciske trilogy, in English translation.
Ciske the Rat is the story of eleven-year-old lonely street child Ciske Vrijmoeth, who has no friends and is only called "the rat". The setting is in Amsterdam in the 1930s. Ciske has to change school, because he poured ink over his teacher's head. After school, he helps out in a pub, where his mother Marie also works. His beloved father Cor is a fisherman and therefore not at home. The story is told by his new teacher Bruis, who gives him a chance.
This edition contains the first and second volumes of the Ciske trilogy, in English translation.