In 2017, van der Linden won the Gouden Penseel award for illustrating the book Tangramkat, written by his wife Maranke Rinck.
[3] In 2018, he received a Vlag en Wimpel award for illustrating the book Van wie is die staart?
In 2020, he donated a large part of his personal collection of illustrations to the Literatuurmuseum in The Hague, Netherlands.
[5] Van der Linden has illustrated books by numerous Dutch authors, including Carli Biessels, Benny Lindelauf, Jan Terlouw, Lieneke Dijkzeul and Dolf Verroen.
Other authors include Bibi Dumon Tak, Paul van Loon and Annie M.G.