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Meindert De Jong

Born

in Weirum, Friesland, Netherlands

March 04, 1906

Died

July 16, 1991

Genre

Children's Books

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Meindert De Jong was an award-winning author of children's books. He was born in the village of Wierum, of the province of Friesland, in the Netherlands.

De Jong immigrated to the United States with his family in 1914. He attended Dutch Calvinist secondary schools and Calvin College, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and entered the University of Chicago, but left without graduating.

He held various jobs during the Great Depression, and it was at the suggestion of a local librarian that he began writing children's books. His first book The Big Goose and the Little White Duck was published in 1938.

He wrote several more books before joining the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, serving in China. After the war he resumed writing, and for several ...more

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	The Wheel on the School by Meindert De Jong, Maurice Sendak (Illustrator) 3.97 avg rating — 13,139 ratings — published 1954 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert De Jong, Maurice Sendak (Illustrator) 3.93 avg rating — 3,512 ratings — published 1956 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Along Came a Dog by Meindert De Jong, Maurice Sendak (Illustrator) 3.91 avg rating — 1,383 ratings — published 1958 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadrach 3.70 avg rating — 888 ratings — published 1953 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert De Jong, Maurice Sendak (Illustrator) 3.98 avg rating — 738 ratings — published 1953 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Little Cat by Meindert De Jong, Jim McMullan (Illustrator) 3.86 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 1961 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Journey from Peppermint Street by Meindert De Jong, Emily Arnold McCully (Illustrator) 3.91 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 1968 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Far Out the Long Canal by Meindert De Jong, Nancy Grossman (Illustrator) 4.02 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1964 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Horse Came Running 4.05 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1970 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Easter Cat by Meindert De Jong, Lillian Hoban (Illustrator) 3.71 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1971 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the whistle—it is in you.”
― Meindert DeJong, The Little Cow and the Turtle

tags: longing, restlessness, trains

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“Until the longing came again, like the longing that you hear in the whistle of a train that is going far away. But the longing isn't really in the whistle, the longing is in you—for the wonder and the loveliness that is in the world, and everywhere.”
― Meindert DeJong, The Little Cow and the Turtle

tags: longing, wonder

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“if you just go on dreaming then it stays a dream and becomes stale and dead. But first to dream and then to do isn't that the way to make a dream come true”
― Meindert DeJong

tags: dreams, inspirational

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