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The wheel on the school. / Pictures by Maurice Sendak.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De Jong, Meindert, 1906-1991.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Storks.
- Netherlands.
- Netherlands--Fiction.
- Storks--Fiction.
- American fiction--20th century.
- American fiction.
- Storks--Juvenile fiction.
- Netherlands--Juvenile fiction.
- Genre:
- Children's stories.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 298 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper, [1954]
- Summary:
- This winner of the 1955 Newbery Award, by the author of Shadrach and Hurry Home, Candy (both runners-up for the 1954 Newbery Award), is a masterpiece of story-telling, full of dramatic action and suspense.
- It all started because Lina, one of the six school children in the little Dutch fishing village of Shora, wrote a composition about storks. It was not a long composition, because Lina did not know much about storks. The storks never came to Shora to build their nests, as they did in the neighboring villages. Lina's composition set the children to wondering-Why didn't the storks come to Shora?-and sometimes when you begin to wonder Why? you can begin to make things happen.
- The children had to overcome many obstacles, and sometimes everything seemed to be against them, including the fierce and threatening sea. But because they wondered and believed and never gave up, they succeeded in doing the impossible; and the long dream-storks on every roof in Shora-began to come true.
- The black-and-white drawings by Maurice Sendak are a perfect complement to the text.
- Contents:
- 1 Do You Know About Storks? 1
- 2 To Wonder Why 7
- 3 Wagon Wheel 26
- 4 Jella and the Farmer 38
- 5 Pier and Dirk and the Cherry Tree 58
- 6 Eelka and the Ancient Wheel 78
- 7 Auka and the Tin Man 102
- 8 Lina and the Upturned Boat 125
- 9 The Wheel Rim 157
- 10 Wagon in the Sea 172
- 11 The Storm and the Storks 188
- 12 The Wheel on the School 205
- 13 Flotsam and Jetsam 233
- 14 The Tots in the Tower 248
- 15 Storks in the Sea 272.
- Notes:
- Newbery Medal,1955
- ISBN:
- 0060215852
- 9780060215859
- 0060215860
- 9780060215866
- OCLC:
- 174138
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