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mrs_w24 's review for:
The Wheel on the School
by Meindert DeJong
I love kids books where the dialogue is realistic, and the characters of the grown-ups are also realistic. It's not contrived, it's not "goody goody" adults, it's REAL people. This story of the little schoolchildren in the Dutch town of Shora is so endearing. They put forth so much effort to get a wheel on the school so the storks can come. There are such lessons to be learned here: people aren't always what they seem (Old legless Janus isn't really a mean man), and the value of hard work and working together (the tin man, the old man Evert, fishermen fathers) and accomplishing something so everyone benefits. My kids will definitely read this one!