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Vintage hardcover copy of The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak. This Newbery Medal-winning children’s classic follows a group of Dutch schoolchildren who set out to bring storks back to their village. This copy is a later Harper & Row / HarperCrest Library Binding edition, not the original 1954 first edition. The original copyright is 1954, but this copy was published after Harper & Row began using that name in the 1960s. Details: • Author: Meindert DeJong • Illustrator: Maurice Sendak • Originally published: 1954 • Edition: Later Harper & Row / HarperCrest Library Binding • Likely era: 1960s • Binding: Hardcover • Award: Newbery Medal • Fiction or Nonfiction: Fiction • Genre: Children’s Condition: Vintage ex-school library copy with Fair Oaks Elementary stamps, library pocket, date-due materials, handwritten library markings, and other school identifiers. Pages show age toning and normal vintage wear. Hardcover remains intact with visibl