In his special role, Dolf uses his knowledge and implements from the twenty-first century.
When he has resigned to the fact that he can never go back, he sets himself up as protector of the children, who en route are subjected to the most terrible ordeals and threats. He ends up in the thirteenth century, in the midst of a crusade of children on their way to liberate Jerusalem from the Arabs. He gets into the time machine his mother is working on, but makes a mistake entering the date. Dolf wants to go back in time to redo a deciding pass in a soccer match. She died in her residence in Bunnik of unknown causes in 2004, aged 80.Epic, English-spoken adaptation of the legendary Dutch children's book by Thea Beckman. Though the book contained superfeminist themes, Beckman didn't consider the book's ideology as her own, stating: "People are greedy, aggressive and intolerant." In this statement, she specifically referred to the idea that a female society would work out better - an idea she did not believe in. She also received notable attention for her trilogy Children of Mother Earth, which depicted a post-apocalyptic earth where soldiers from societies led by men invade and disrupt a newfound Greenlandic society, which is led by women. The book describes a children's crusade in 1212 and was adapted into a movie in 2006.
Her publisher urged her to change it to Beckman with only one "n" to prevent her name from sounding "too German", in wake of Germany's negative reputation after World War II.īeckman is best known for Crusade in Jeans, a 1973 children's novel for which she was awarded the Gouden Griffel. In wake of the 1929 economic crisis, her father lost his job and Beckman was glad she had finished her study, especially after World War II occurred.Īs a writer, she intended to use her husband's name of Beckmann as her pseudonym. As a teenager, she would write numerous stories and would listen to various types of music, ranging from classic to exciting film scores, depending on the kind of scene she was writing.īeckman studied social psychology while she was in her twenties, attending the University of Utrecht.
At young age (11), Beckman knew she wanted to be a writer.
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