Authors and Illustrators Database

Born: 03/04/1906  Wierum, Netherlands
Died: 07/16/1991
Parents: Raymond and Jennie DeJong
Children: 5 step-children

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	The Almost All-White Rabbity Cat	Fiction	Children	New York :Macmillan & Company	1972
	The Easter Cat	Fiction	Children	New York :Macmillan & Company	1971
	Journey From Peppermint Street	Fiction	Children	New York Harper & Brothers	1968
	Puppy Summer	Fiction	Children	New York Harper & Brothers	1966
	Far Out the Long Canal	Fiction	Children	New York Harper & Brothers	1964
	Along Came a Dog - pictures by Maurice Sendak.	Fiction	Children	New York Harper & Brother	1958
	The House of Sixty Fathers	Fiction	Children	New York Harper & Brother	1956
	Wheel on the School - Newbery Award	Fiction	Children	New York Harper & Brother	1954
	Shadrach	Fiction	Children	New York, NY : Harper & Row, Publishers, Incorporated	1953
	Hurry Home, Candy - (Publication Years: 1953, 1965)	Fiction	Children	New York, NY : Harper & Row, Publishers, Incorporated	1953
	The Cat that Walked a Week	Fiction	Children	New York, NY : Harper & Row, Publishers, Incorporated	1943
	Dirk's Dog Bello	Fiction	Children	New York, NY : Harper & Row, Publishers, Incorporated	1939
	The Big Goose and the Little White Duck - (Publication Years: 1938, 1963)	Fiction	Children	New York, NY : Harper & Row, Publishers, Incorporated	1938

What is the aim or goal of your writing: 2nd ed. says, "The separate world of the child is a brief world because it is a world of wonder. Come into an afternoon of a child and into the simple wonder of the curl of smoke out of a chimney, or the agony of seeing a crippled bird wing-dragging across a lawn, or the loveliness seen in the curl of a sleeping cat that needs to be cradled in small arms and held tight. Or if that is too pleasant, the eternity of twenty minutes of a child's life as he waits before a closed door, desolate, alone and bereft. What separates this world from the adult world is wonder. But where does wonder go? In a few brief years it is stultified into adulthood. Few seem to realize that it is precisely that wonder and that intensity of sensation (which are lost in adult stultification) that the child must draw on in order to grow and gain acceptance, assurance and security. Certainly, in terms of adult experience, the child's world and the world of children's literature: 'Limitation of means determines style, engenders form and new form, and gives impulse to creativity'."

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Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

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Name	Date
National Catholic Regina Award	1972
National Book Award in Children Literature	1969
Hans Christian Andersen Award (first American to win)	1962
Aurianne Award, American Library Association	1960
Children's Book Award, Child Study Association of America	1956
Newbery Award for The Wheel on the School, American Library Association	1955

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