![]() ![]() There were more children, too, but young children, toddlers, not school children – so that is not so important either. They were, well, just old people, so they weren’t too important. ![]() There were a few more houses, but in those houses lived no children – just old people. In five of those houses lived the six school children of Shora, so that is important. It had some houses and a church and a tower. It lay on the shore of the North Sea in Friesland, tight against the dike. Will they get a wheel onto the school roof? Can they do it in time? Will the storks survive the storm, and will they come to Sora? Their project is not going to be easy, for the migration has already begun and difficulties beset them at every turn – a wheel proves hard to find, neighbours are unhelpful, an ancient wheel falls to pieces, one child falls off the dike, someone else is stranded in the tide, and finally a tremendous storm hits the coast. ![]() Why? The town’s six school children ponder the problem and decide they need to put an old wheel on the roof of the school for the birds to build a nest on. There are no storks in the Dutch fishing village of Shora, though they nest in all the neighbouring towns. ![]() Interests: birds, ocean, Holland, cooperation, helping others, adventure, small towns, country lifeĪlso by this author: Along Came a Dog The House of Sixty Fathers Hurry home, Candy Shadrach NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER – 1955 The Wheel on the School ![]()
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