The wheel on the school is a novel by meindert dejong, a dutchborn american, that won the 1955 newbery medal for childrens literature and the 1957 deutscher jugendliteraturpreis. Dutch schoolgirl linas composition about storks initiates the childrens campaign to bring storks back to their village. Classroom teachers and homeschool parents, the wheel on the school is one of those great books kids should readand you can make it a great book kids love to read. The wheel on the school quicknotes study guide enotes download. In five of those houses lived the six school children of shora, so that is important. Value and meaning in childrens fiction, writes that the book invokes. The wheel on the school by meindert dejong librarything. Diary of a wimpy kid 14 books collection by jeff kinney digital, pdf. Click to read more about the wheel on the school by meindert dejong.
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The house of sixty fathers meindert dejong hardcover. He won the international hans christian andersen award in 1962 for his contributions as a childrens writer. Meindert dejong is the winner of the 1954 newbery award for the wheel on the school. Dejong develops this theme in his tightly structured dramatic novel set in the dutch village of shora during the early twentieth century.
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