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Meindert De Jong
(1906 - 1991)
Meindert De Jong (March 4, 1906 – July 16, 1991), sometimes spelled de Jong, or DeJong or Dejong was a Dutch-born American writer of children’s books. He won the international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1962 for his contributions as a children’s writer.
Bibliography
Bells of the Harbor (1941)
Author(s):
Meindert De Jong
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Big Goose and the Little White Duck (1963)
A boy buys a big goose and the goose’s friend, a little duck, as pets for his mother, but grandfather wants goose for dinner.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Meindert De Jong
Illustrator(s):
Nancy Ekholm Burkert
Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 4 (1962)
Eighteen stories set in different countries.
Dirk’s Dog, Bello (1939)
A little Dutch boy helps rescue a Great Dane washed up on the dike of his village. But the large dog eats so much that he becomes a problem that only the whole village can solve.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Meindert De Jong
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Wheel on the School (1954)
Overcoming many obstacles, a group of children work together with their Dutch village to bring the storks back.
Author(s):
Meindert De Jong
Illustrator(s):
Maurice Sendak