The house of sixty fathers / by Meindert De Jong ; pictures by Maurice Sendak.

Author/creator De Jong, Meindert
Other author Sendak, Maurice.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : HarperCollins, 1984, ©1956.
Description189 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Subjects

Contents 1. Rain on the sampan -- 2. Sampan in the river -- 3. Night in the mountains -- 4. The river cliff -- 5. Cuckoos call at night -- 6. In the town of terror -- 7. The house of sixty fathers -- 8. The long day -- 9. Break down the mountains.
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.
ISBN0060214805
ISBN9780060214807
ISBN0060214813 (lib. bdg.)
ISBN9780060214814 (lib. bdg.)

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