The Wheel on the School
by DeJong, Meindert
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped, soiled and worn, owner name on front free endpaper.
- ISBN 10
- 0812427793
- ISBN 13
- 9780812427790
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Harper and Row. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped, soiled and worn, . owner name on front free endpaper.. 1954. Later Printing. Hardcover. 0812427793 . Pictorial boards. The 1955 Newbery Medal winner about children in a Dutch fishing village illustrated by Caldecott medalist Maurice Sendak. ; 298 pages .
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56217
- Title
- The Wheel on the School
- Author
- DeJong, Meindert
- Illustrator
- Maurice Sendak
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped, soiled and worn, owner name on front free endpaper.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0812427793
- ISBN 13
- 9780812427790
- Publisher
- Harper and Row
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- 0812427793, Newbery Award Winners, Maurice Sendak
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books;
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