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Author De Jong, Meindert, 1906-1991.

Title The house of sixty fathers / by Meindert De Jong ; pictures by Maurice Sendak
Published New York : HarperCollins, 1984
©1956

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 W'BOOL CRC  JUNIOR FICTION Dej/Hos 1984  AVAILABLE
Description 189 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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
Summary 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
Children's literature, focusing on the Asia-Pacific region
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- China -- Juvenile fiction.
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- China -- Juvenile fiction.
SUBJECT China http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79091151 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687
Genre/Form Fiction.
Author Sendak, Maurice.
ISBN 0060214805
9780060214807
0060214813 library binding
9780060214814 library binding