Childhood classic ‘Crusade in jeans’ now costs less than 2,5 euro

Art & Literature The novel "Crusade in jeans" by Thea Beckman is since yesterday for 2.5 euro in all the bookstores in the framework of the campaign "Give a (picture)book as a present'. In the action bundle bookstores and various organizations join forces each year, a classic for the youth "in an accessible way", as it sounds on the website of the initiative.

It is the fourth edition of the action, which in 2016 began in February, a classic children's book, and in april, a picture book for a small amount in the store is located in Flanders and the Netherlands. Last year was that " Ronja the robber's daughter’ and ‘guess how much I love you’.

In ‘Crusade in jeans’ gives a 16-year-old boy as a guinea pig to the middle Ages, flashed to be, to be there one afternoon to take a look. To 17 hours that afternoon, he returned at the agreed place to teruggeflitst to the 20th century, but by a mistaken calculation, he comes in the year 1212 in a kinderkruistocht, and not on the knights ' tournament that he so badly wanted to attend. And it fails to be on time at the agreed place.

The book was published in 1973 and is almost to his hundredth pressure. In 2006 it was filmed by Ben Sombogaart, under the title of ‘Crusade in Jeans’, starring among others, Jan Decleir and Emily Watson.