Meindert De Jong
Author
(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
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.
Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 4 (1962)
Eighteen stories set in different countries.
Marie McSwigan
L. M. Montgomery
Johanna Spyri
Edith Unnerstad
Hilda van Stockum
Et al
Maurice Sendak
Louis Slobodkin
Kurt Wiese
Et al
