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cor_bruijn sil de strandjutter - cor bruijn
a dutch book, very famous in holland, for children and for adults. it shows the society on one of the wadden islands in the north of the country. it's about a beach comber who finds a child in a wrecked ship. the child becomes part of his family

the growing pains of his two sons, and the found child when she is a little older, are part of the best things i ever read in my life.