Wil (Willibrord Joseph) Huygen (born 1923), is a Dutch book author. Year 1923 ( MCMXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands He is best known for the picture books on gnomes, illustrated by Rien Poortvliet. Rien Poortvliet ( August 7 1932 – September 15 1995) was a Dutch draughtsman and painter.
Huygen, a painter in his own right, was born in Amersfoort, Holland. Amersfoort is a municipality and the second largest city of the province of Utrecht in central Netherlands. The seventh of ten children, his primary occupation is that of a physician. This helps to explain the method he uses to give realism and a sense of authenticity to his children's books about Gnomes. He still calls Holland home and live there with his wife. His five children are grown.
The first and most well known in this series is Gnomes (published in 1977, and originally known as Leven en werken van de Kabouter in Dutch). In the second book (De oproep der Kabouters) both Huygen and Poortvliet make appearances themselves in both the story and the illustrations as they get contacted by the gnomes because of Gnomes book they have written together.
Books List
The Pop-Up Book of Gnomes (1979) [1] The Gnome Book of Christmas Crafts (1980) [2] Gnome Games (1980, Designed by Larry Evans) [3] Secrets of the Gnomes (1981) [4] Gnomes and Their Families (1983) [5] Gnomes with Animals (1983) [6] The Book of the Sandman and the Alphabet of Sleep (1989) [7]
External links
- Biography at FantasyLibrary.net, incorrectly assumes Wil to be female
- Gnomes at amazon.com
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