Name Chris Abkoude Role Writer | Parents Piet van Abkoude | |
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Died January 2, 1960, Portland, Oregon, United States Spouse Johanna van Wijk (m. 1905–1950) Movies Little Crumb, Peter Bell, Peter Bell II: The Hunt for the Czar Crown Children Dirk Winters, Mary Winters Similar People Maria Peters, Dave Schram, Hans Pos, Henny Vrienten | ||
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Chris van Abkoude (6 November 1880, Rotterdam – 2 January 1960, Portland, Oregon) was a Dutch writer and novelist of mostly children's books. He wrote the series of Pietje Bell novels from 1914 to 1936 and many books in between. He moved to the United States in 1916 and wrote all the Pietje Bell books in the United States, except for the first one, which he wrote in 1914 in Rotterdam. In 1923 Abkoude wrote the novel Kruimeltje (Little Crumb) and in 1999 the film Little Crumb was released. Before his writing career, Van Abkoude was a teacher; when he noticed the children did not like reading the children's books of the time, he wrote his own.
In the U.S., he anglicized his name to Charles Winters.
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