THE WHEEL ON THE SCHOOL
by Dejong, Meindert
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Brockport, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Harper & Row, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Sendak, Maurice. NO. X Library Price clipped, corner and edge wear, tight binding and pages, cover has slight spine wear
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
- FAB BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10181
- Title
- THE WHEEL ON THE SCHOOL
- Author
- Dejong, Meindert
- Illustrator
- Sendak, Maurice
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1954
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...