Meindert De Jong

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Meindert De Jong

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…one modern American master in Meindert De Jong, whose most sensitive work was drawn from recollections of his Dutch early childhood. A Hans Christian Andersen and Newbery winner, he is best savored in The Wheel on the School (1954), and especially in the intuitive Journey from Peppermint Street (1968). The…
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…one modern American master in Meindert De Jong, whose most sensitive work was drawn from recollections of his Dutch early childhood. A Hans Christian Andersen and Newbery winner, he is best savored in The Wheel on the School (1954), and especially in the intuitive Journey from Peppermint Street (1968). The…
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