Along Came a Dog

DeJong, Meindert

SENDAK, Maurice

HarperCollins, Publishers

Hurry Home Candy (Lions)

Literature & Fiction

THE ALMOST ALL-WHITE RABBITY CAT

the almost all-white rabbity cat

Macmillan

Meindert DeJong is the winner of the 1954 Newbery Award for The Wheel on the School. The New York Herald Tribune praised this book for "its insight that stimulates the imagination and its clear beauty, like that of a Vermeer painting."
The scene of this latest book by Mr. DeJong is China, during the Japanese occupation. Young Tien Pao is alone on his family's sampan when the boat breaks loose from its moorings and is caught by the rushing waters of the river. When the sampan finally lands, Tien Pao is in Japanese territory. With only his pig for company, he starts on the long and difficult journey back to Hengyang and his parents.
The House of Sixty fathers could be the story of any child in any war.In his expressive pictures Maurice Sendak has caught the essence of TienPao and his faith, courage, and unwillingness to surrender his belief in the impossible.
The House of Sixty Fathers isbased on Meindert DeJong's actual experience, During World War 11 Mr. DeJong was official historian for the Chinese-American Composite Wing, which was part of Cbennault's famous Fourteenth Air Force. A young Chinese war orphan, the Tien Pao of this story, was adopted by DeJong's outfit. The boy chose DeJong as his special "father," and the two were devoted to one another.
Mr. DeJong wanted to bring the boy back to the United States with him, but because of legal complications he was unable to do so. However, the men in the outfit left the youngster well provided for when they returned to America. The Communists then took over that section of China, and DeJong has never heard what happened to the boy.

The House of Sixty Fathers

Children's Books

Harper & Brothers: NY

‘The creativeness and artistry of the author is evidenced in the starkly realistic, compassionate story of Candy, a little lost dog that becomes a stray.’ —BL. ‘Mature, sensitive . . . written with originality and imagination.’ —SLJ. 
 1954 Newbery Honor Book Notable Children's Books 1940–1959 (ALA)

Hurry Home, Candy

Animals

HarperColl

Nobody Plays With a Cabbage

Harpercollins Juvenile Books

Why do 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 to Shora. The force of their vision put the whole village to work until at last the dream began to come true.

Wheel on the School, The

Teen & Young Adult

Why do 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 to Shora. The force of their vision put the whole village to work until at last the dream began to come true.
 Winner, 1955 Newbery Medal Notable Children's Books of 1940–1970 (ALA) 1963 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award

The Wheel on the School

Harpercollins

The friendship of a little red hen and a homeless dog who appoints himself her protector ‘is treated by the author with delicacy and strength in lovely and lucid prose.’ —C."A moving story, full of suspense." —H.

Along Came a Dog: A Newbery Honor Award Winner

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