Original title: Wortel schieten

Writer: Maaike Haneveld

Illustrator: Maaike Haneveld

Original Publication: Unpublished/in progress

Rights details: Worldwide rights available

About the book:

Ooke has totally had enough of where she lives. 

Fortunately, after many years of careful love and attention, her little key plant has flourished and grown into a real house: she watched the landings unfolding from their buds, and the top floor is almost fully grown. Almost big enough to live in! 

Now it’s just a question of finding somewhere to put down roots. But of course it really needs to be the right place, and she has to hurry, because before long the house will have grown too big to move. 

Loading everything onto the car, and heading out with Otto the cat to find the right spot for her own home. But what would be the best place for her and her little house? What are all the things you need to think of? Will they find the right spot in time? And even more important: how can you ever be sure that somewhere is really the right place? 

Putting down roots is a book about finding your place in the world, and about what makes a house a home.