The Wheel on the School
by DeJong, Meindert, Illustrated by Sendak, Maurice
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New York, NY: Trumpet Club, 1988. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Winner of Newbery Medal. Age Range: 9 to 12. Why did the storks no longer come to the little Dutch fishing village of Shora to nest? It was Lina, one of the six schoolchildren, who first asked the question, and she set the others to wondering. And sometimes when you begin to wonder, you begin to make things happen. So the children set out to bring the storks back. They had to overcome many obstacles, including the fierce and threatening sea. But they wouldn't give up - and soon their determination and their vision got the whole village working, until at last the dream began to come true. 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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- Title
- The Wheel on the School
- Author
- DeJong, Meindert, Illustrated by Sendak, Maurice
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- New York, NY: Trumpet Club, 1988
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE NEWBERY MEDAL CHILDRENS BOOK JUVENILE CHAPTER SENDAK, MAURICE 0064400212 CHILDREN\'S BOOKS PB
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- Fine
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