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Looks like a good stub :)

--Indighostly (talk) 16:50, 20 January 2016 (UTC) really liked your story. maybe a few changes can be made but overall, good. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Juliett 1026 (talk • contribs) 17:15, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Hello, I just made few changes to your story. But the professor said that we should not make any changes in the user's sandbox, Sorry! However, your story seems to be good and as somebody else said it, just neeed to make few changes, but it is such an interesting story to read! Good Job! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Torsagirl19 (talk • contribs) 17:22, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Good article, but the name of the story The Dark Frigate is not the same as the name of the book in the side box where it gives the description of the book. The books title over there is The Mayflower and not The Dark Frigate. Sheikh-aladdin (talk) 16:47, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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The Wheel on the School is a novel by Meindert DeJong a Dutch born American that won the 1955 Newbery Medal for children's literature and the 1957 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis. The book was illustrated by noted author and illustrator Maurice Sendak.

Fred Inglis, in his book "The Promise of Happiness: Value and Meaning in Children's Fiction", writes that the book invokes the ancient pieties and the values of the old world and makes them "imaginable in the new."

Plot summary
This story is about the wonders of why stalks no longer visited a Dutch village of Shora. Lina is one of six school children in the small fishing village of Shora. When she writes an essay for school that asks why there are no storks in their village, the teacher encourages the class to find out for themselves. After searching for an answer, they soon discovered that the roofs on the village's homes are pitched, so steeply that the storks cannot find space to nest on the sharp ridges. They decided placing a wagon wheel on each roof ridge would give storks a place to nest. The task of finding a wagon wheel in the tiny village proved difficult, and the children meet several interesting personalities during their search. This simple, yet compelling plot teaches that if people think, wonder why things will begin to happen and dreams will come true.

The schoolchildren are: Lina, the only girl in the small school; Jella, the biggest of all the children; Auka, an average boy; Eelka, who is fat and awkward; Pier and Dirk, the inseparable twins. These six kids are aided by their teacher, Grandmother Sibble III, legless Janus, old Douwa, and the "tin man". Other characters include the fathers of the children, who are all fishermen; Lina's aunt, who lives in Nes; Evert, the man living across from Lina's aunt; Lina and Auka's younger siblings, Linda and Jan; Jana, Janus's wife; and the mothers of the children.

The dedication reads: "To my nieces, Shirley and Beverly, and their flying fingers".

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The Slave Dancer is a children's book written by Paula Fox and published in 1973 by Bradbury Press. It tells the story of a boy musician named Jessie Bollier who was kidnapped and forced to play music on a ship of African slave trade. The book received the Newbery Medal in 1974.

Plot
Set in pre-Civil War New Orleans, the slave dancer tells the story of a thirteen year old boy musician. He was kidnapped and taken aboard an African slave ship called, "The Moonlight" where he is forced to play his fife so the slaves aboard the ship would dance to keep physically fit and "profitable" for trade. Jessie is horrified by the treatment of the slaves and hardships they have to live through being traded and facing sea storms that in the end and leaves him shipwrecked.

Reception
The book is a Zilveren Griffel Winner. Nominated for the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award. School Library Journal calls it "Spellbinding...will horrify as well as fascinate." Booklist's review says it is "Movingly and realistically presents one of the most gruesome chapters of history."

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The Little Island is a book by Margaret Wise Brown under the pseudonym Golden MacDonald and illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. Released by Doubleday in 1946, it was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1947. It describes the four seasons as experienced by a little island. The book is lyrically written, an example being: "Winter came/ and the snow fell softly/ like a great quiet secret in the night/ cold and still."

Plot
Once there was a little island in the ocean. That little island changes as the seasons comes and go. The storm and the day and night change it. The island stood out up north. It was a popular place to be. Lots of gulls, lobsters, seals and many more animals come to this beautiful place. One day, a black dark kitten with blue eyes come to the island with his owners. This kitten is very insensitive; he does not care about others. In this story, the island and the kitten talk and fight, because the cat does not think the island is a part of the world but it really is. So the island says “Ask the underworld”. The underworld is the sea. The cat walks to the dark green underworld to see if he will get his answer. When the kitten doubts the island about this point, the island suggests asking a fish. The cat catches a fish and demands to know how the island is part of the bigger land. “Come with me” says the fish. 'I cannot swim', says the cat. 'Then you will have to take it on faith', says the fish. 'What is that - faith?' asks the cat. "Faith is to believe what I tell you about what you don't know", says the fish. "All lands are one land under the sea", says the fish. The cat realizes he has learned a great truth, and his eyes "were shining with the secret of it, and because he loved secrets, he let the fish go". Then the cat leaves the island, and the island settles back into the timeless cycle of the seasons. The kitten learns from the island that the island is connected to all of the other land.

Critical response
Golden MacDonald was a pen name for Margaret Wise Brown of Goodnight Moon fame. The text of this book captures the subtle rhythms of her appreciation for nature, and the connections that all beings and objects in nature have with one another. The book also won a Caldecott Medal for its shimmering and tingling watercolors. The images create a mood of the perpetual essence of nature, and our connections to one another through the blue-green and grey palettes used. The Little Island is one of the great masterpieces in achieving that remarkable accomplishment. The book covers the four seasons as they affect the little island and the plants and animals that visit the island. To show the ongoing nature of the process, the book's time line expands beyond a single year.The island is described as being: 'A part of the world and a world of its own all surrounded by the bright blue sea. From the New York Times the little island children literature book is all about faith. Having the kitten fish is an allusion to the famous Biblical reference of teaching a man to fish, rather than providing him with fish, and the kitten that comes from ashore learns a secret about the island and a lesion about fait.< The connection to Donne is made in the context of the kitten visitor to the island. "May be I am an island too . . . a little fur Island in the air". The connections run in all directions. The kitten gets the answer there, but cannot get firm proof. He just has to take the fish's word for it. This is an obvious allusion to the element of faith in people understanding of the spiritual nature of our connections to one another.Many animals need the little island to go through their annual cycle, such as the seals who raise their young on the island. Many of the insects and birds come from the mainland across the sea. The weather affects the sea, the island, and the mainland alike as do the tides. The story is strengthened by what children choose to read the book and have opportunities to share scientific facts, spiritual connections, and to explain the mutual dependency that occurs in nature.