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Windmills and wooden shoes

Chapter 33: LITTLE RIKKA
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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.


LITTLE RIKKA

Rikka is one of Katrina’s little Dutch friends. She lives near grandmother’s house by the sea.

Her father is a fisherman. He works on the fishing-boat with Jan’s father.

Sometimes the fathers take the children out on the ocean in the big fishing-boats. The big green waves rock the boat up and down.

Rikka and Katrina like to sit in the front end of the boat. They like to feel on their faces the salt spray from the ocean.

Jan helps the men with the nets. He thinks he is like a man when he works with them. Rikka’s father says that Jan is a good worker.