Find out all about gnomes, based on the picture book of the same name by Loes Riphagen

What a lot there is to see in the city! Cars, squares, traffic lights, big buildings, but if you look a little closer: what do you see? Is that a gnome disguise? Is there sometimes a mouse cafe under that manhole cover?

The Picture Book Festival is a wonderful experience world for toddlers and preschoolers: two performances, complemented by the wonderful colorful playground in which to play to your heart's content.

During the festival you can watch Sam & Julia (ages 3-7) at 10:30 a.m., our new performance about the famous mice from the Mouse House by Karina Schaapman. Or learn all about gnomes in the performance Het Kabouterboek (2-6 years), based on the picture book of the same name by Loes Riphagen.

From 9 a.m. playtime in the foyer

In the foyer st...

Find out all about gnomes, based on the picture book of the same name by Loes Riphagen

What a lot there is to see in the city! Cars, squares, traffic lights, big buildings, but if you look a little closer: what do you see? Is that a gnome disguise? Is there sometimes a mouse cafe under that manhole cover?

The Picture Book Festival is a wonderful experience world for toddlers and preschoolers: two performances, complemented by the wonderful colorful playground in which to play to your heart's content.

During the festival you can watch Sam & Julia (ages 3-7) at 10:30 a.m., our new performance about the famous mice from the Mouse House by Karina Schaapman. Or learn all about gnomes in the performance Het Kabouterboek (2-6 years), based on the picture book of the same name by Loes Riphagen.

From 9 a.m. playtime in the foyer

In the foyer is a colorful play city. Build your own skyscraper, have fun in the playhouses, disguise yourself like the gnomes do from The Gnome Book and build a beautiful road, until it's time to go to the show!

10 a.m. & 11:15 a.m.: The Gnome Book (2+)

In The Gnome Book by Loes Riphagen (awarded with a Silver Brush) you will learn almost everything about the gnome. For example, you find out that gnomes just live in the city these days, you learn what a flatware clip is and how best to disguise yourself.

In The Gnome Book - the performance, you'll learn even more about gnomes. How do they sound when they sing (false!), how do they smell, what does a house gnome feel like? On stage we create the gnome world and with a Very Large Gnome Book we take all viewers into fantasy. But is it really fantasy?

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when

  • Sunday, April 13, 2025 at 10 a.m.
  • Sunday, April 13, 2025 at 11:15 a.m.

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