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The narrative follows Dutch siblings Jan and Katrina and their friends as they carry out everyday life in a small Dutch community: chores like milking cows, churning butter, selling milk; play and games; visits to windmills and barges; cultural details such as wooden shoes, storks' nests, blue-and-white dishes, dikes and canals; seasonal events including sleigh rides, St. Nicholas and Christmas; songs and simple illustrated scenes intended for classroom use. Episodes are short and episodic, combining practical descriptions of customs and landscape with domestic scenes to familiarize young readers with Holland's rhythms and material culture.
Grandmother has a large stove. It is not at all like our stoves. Our stoves are made of iron and are black.
Grandmother’s Dutch stove is white. It is made of white porcelain. There are pretty colored pictures on grandmother’s stove.
Jan and Katrina like to go to grandmother’s on a cold day and sit before her pretty stove. They take off their wooden shoes and get their toes warm.
Grandmother sits beside the stove, too. She tells them pretty stories about the pictures on her stove.