Ferry Piekart facts for kids

Ferry Piekart is a writer from the Netherlands. He was born in 1974. He writes non-fiction books especially for children. One of his well-known books is Playing With Stuff – Outrageous Games with Ordinary Objects. This book came out in the United States in 2004. It was published by Kane/Miller Book Publishers.

About Ferry Piekart

Ferry Piekart lives in Rotterdam, a city in the Netherlands. He went to college to study journalism, which is about writing for newspapers and magazines. He also studied cultural anthropology, which is about learning about different cultures and people.

Ferry started his writing career in the Netherlands. He wrote articles about science for grown-up magazines. These were called "popular-science" articles because they made science easy to understand.

Later, he began writing articles and stories for magazines made just for kids. His book, Playing With Stuff – Outrageous Games with Ordinary Objects, was his very first book written for children.