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The Wheel on the School
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The Wheel on the School (edit title/settings)

by Meindert DeJong (Author), Maurice Sendak (Illustrator) (edit contributors)

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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 to make things happen. So the children set out... read more

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  • “Of course, 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? Now sit for a moment, picture it for a moment ...”
  • “Making dreams become real often takes long.”
    The teacher

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TO START with there was Shora.

Table of Contents edit see section history

1. Do you know about storks?
2. To wonder why
3. Wagon wheel
4. Jella and the farmer
5. Pier and Dirk and the cherry tree
6. Eelka and the ancient wheel
7. Auka and the tin man
8. Lina and the upturned boat
9. The wheel rim
10. Wagon in the sea
11. The storm and the storks
12. The wheel on the school
13. Flotsam and jetsam
14. The tots in the tower
15. Storks in the sea

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This is book 520 of 986 in 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up. (authoritative list)

Preceded by A Child's Christmas in Wales, and followed by Hobberdy Dick.

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  1. Meindert DeJong (Author)
  2. Maurice Sendak (Illustrator)

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