Meindert De Jong

• Jan-1953
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‘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.

• 1953
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Even after Davie had had the little black rabbit, Shadrach, for several weeks, it was still almost unbelievable. Every morning when Davie woke up it was a miracle all over again -- there in his grandfather's barn sat a wriggle black rabbit, and it wa...

• Oct-1954
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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 ...

• Jan-1956
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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 s...

• Jun-1958
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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....

• Jun-1968
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• Feb-1991
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• Apr-2012
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Meindert DeJong, winner of the 1954 Newbery Award for 'The Wheel on the School', wrote this delightful tale five decades ago. Now ‘The Last Little Cat’ is back in print to delight both children and adults.

The last little cat was born in...