The Wheel on the School
by DeJong,Meindert
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Marietta,, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Harper & Row, 1954. Hardback. Very Good/Good. Maurice Sendak. Early Reprint 3.95 0n the dw flap Previous owners name stamped on front free end paper
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
- Always Superior Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 058968
- Title
- The Wheel on the School
- Author
- DeJong,Meindert
- Illustrator
- Maurice Sendak
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Date Published
- 1954
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Marietta,, Georgia
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.