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The Wheel on the School

Meindert De Jong,

Maurice Sendak (Illustrator)

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Jul 24, 2009 Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance rated it liked it

Shelves: children-s-books, kids-1001, newbery, schools

This is truly an odd story. A village in Holland is sad because no storks come to nest in their town. The children and their teacher decide to change things by making a project of it; they will find an old wagon wheel and put it on top of the school for storks to nest in.

Pretty soon, the whole town is involved in the project. Everyone is out looking for wagon wheels. Everyone is figuring out how to put the wheel on the school. Everyone is helping put the wagon wheel on the roof of the school. Th ...more

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Dec 19, 2012 Katie rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, ___europe, newbery, female-author, _netherlands

I'm on another Newberry kick. This book is about kids in a fishing village in Holland that decide they want storks to nest in their village. So they go on a quest to find a wagon wheel to put on the roof of their school as a nesting site for the storks. It is a nice story about imagination and curiousity and people working together to make something happen. It was a little too adventurous towards the end for my tastes, otherwise I may have given it four stars. ...more

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