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| Genre/Form: | Juvenile fiction Fiction |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: De Jong, Meindert, 1906-1991. House of sixty fathers. New York, Harper [1956] (OCoLC)700378002 |
| Material Type: | Fiction, Juvenile audience |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Meindert De Jong; Maurice Sendak |
| ISBN: | 0060214813 9780060214814 |
| OCLC Number: | 172356 |
| Awards: | Newbery Honor Book, 1957. |
| Description: | 189 p. illus. 21 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Pictures by Maurice Sendak. |
Abstract:
Alone in a sampan with his pig and three ducklings, a little Chinese boy is whirled down a raging river, back to the town from which he and his parents had escaped the invading Japanese, and spends long and frightening days regaining his family and new home.
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