The Wheel on the School
by DeJong, Meindert
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Harper & Brothers, 1953. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
Synopsis
The Wheel on the School is a novel by Meindert DeJong that won the 1955 Newbery Medal for children's literature and the 1957 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis. The book was illustrated by noted author and illustrator Maurice Sendak. Fred Inglis, in his book The Promise of Happiness: Value and Meaning in Children's Fiction, writes that the book invokes the ancient pieties and the values of the old world and makes them "imaginable in the new."
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- Bookseller
- ThriftBooks (US)
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- Title
- The Wheel on the School
- Author
- DeJong, Meindert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Date Published
- 1953
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