Meindert DeJong

A stray dog earns a home for himself by protecting a little red hen and her chicks from a preying hawk.

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. The novel was based on the author's own experiences as a military flier in China during the Second World War. The book won the Josette Frank Award in 1956.

Six students in a tiny Dutch sea town engage practically the whole population in an effort to attract storks to nest on the town's roofs again.

Left alone in the family's new city apartment, a boy befriends a white cat that mysteriously appears and disappears.

In the village of Wierum, at the edge of the North Sea, practically everyone could skate except the very littlest children ... and Moonta Riermersma, who was already nine years old. When ice finally came to the ditches and canals, Moonta was afire with enthusiasm, not only to learn to skate, but to let his skates lead him on to adventure. And when he heard of something called the New Church's Pipe, far out the long canal, he was determined to find it at any risk. (From publisher description).

Although she always wanted a cat, Millie was never allowed to keep one until she found one next to her Easter basket.

After the tramp and the little skunk become separated, skunk wanders into town where he stops traffic and delays a parade.

A little boy moves to the country with his family and gets a new hat which floats down a stream, gets chewed by a horse, and protects a skunk's home from the rain.

Jim's garden starts out filled with beans, broccoli, corn, carrots and cabbages, but after dogs, cats and chickens have taken their toll, one cabbage is left which grows and grows and shelters all kinds of animals.

A retelling of the Holy Scriptures in the form of short stories.

This children's book is an incredible story of a small housecat's journey through the woods to get back home in the city. The neighbors of the cat's owner, a small boy, is an elderly couple who becomes fed up with the constantly piano-key bashing of the boy and his cat. They plot to kidnap the cat and successfully abandon him in the woods. The cat begins his lengthy journey home and encounters all kinds of obstacles and amazing adventures. You'll travel right there, alongside the young cat throughout this marvelous tale. DeJong's incredible use of imagery captivates the complete imagination of the reader, young or old. This story is unforgettable and entirely worth the read.

Spending the summer on their grandparents farm, Jon and Vestri experience exciting adventures with three lovable puppies.

A little Dutch boy helps rescue a Great Dane washed up on the dike of his village, but the large dog eats so much that he becomes a problem that only the whole village can solve.

Chronicles the occurences on a young boy's journey to visit an aunt and how these events affect his return journey and arrival at his home on Peppermint Street.

An old woman who lives with a magpie and a cat is accused of witchcraft by the hysterical, superstitious inhabitants of a small dutch village, but an action of the cat and the wisdom of the woman bring the people to their senses.

A boy from a very quiet valley attends a large and noisy fair where he acquires a loudmouth duck and rides a broken Ferris Wheel.