Meindert dejong biography of george bush

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Abstract

Author. The collection includes speeches, correspondence, book reviews, articles, autobiography, manuscript, memoir, newspaper clippings, and biography. [See also the Campus Titles Database.]

Biographical Note

Meindert DeJong is the award-winning author of many classic books for children, including the Newbery Medal-winning The Wheel on the School and the Newbery Honor-winning Along Came A Dog, Shadrach, and The House of Sixty Fathers.

DeJong (4 March - 16 July ) was born in the village of Wierum, Friesland, the Netherlands. His family immigrated to the United States in He attended Christian secondary schools and Calvin College, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and entered the University of Chicago, but left without held various jobs during the Great Depression, and it was at the suggestion of a local librarian that he began writing children&#;s books.

While working toward becoming a full-time writer, Meindert held such diverse jobs as college professor, a gravedigger, a mason, a tinsmith, a sexton, and a bricklayer.

Meindert dejong biography of george hamilton Meindert De Jong was an award winning children’s book author. He did not start writing books until he was 32 years old. He did so, because a local librarian felt he had the potential to be a good writer. De Jong’s first book, entitled, “The Big Goose and the Little White Duck”, was published in

He wrote several books before joining the US Army Air Corps during World War II serving in China. In DeJong was the first American author to win the International Hans Christian Andersen Award for his contributions to literature for young people; that year’s award was designated to be for an author’s entire works.

On 6 July , he married Hattie Overmeirer; they divorced in He moved to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and on 17 November married Beatrice DeClaire McElwee (d 11/17/).  In , they moved to Chapel Hill, NC, and in to Allegan, Michigan. In , he married Gwendolyn Jonkman Zandstra.  He died in Allegan.

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Series 1

Box 1

Folder 1: Awards and acceptance speeches

Folder 2

Item 1: Correspondence

Item 2: Correspondence with Otto Wierenga

Folder 3: Information regarding Meindert De Jong&#;s will

Folder 4: Book jackets and information regarding books donated to the Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary Library

Folder 5: The Memoir, Grand Rapids Christian High School yearbook

Folder 6: Writings

Folder 7: Writings

Folder 8: Writings about M.

De Jong

Folder 9: Writings about M. De Jong

Folder Writings about M. De Jong and undated

Folder Book reviews

Folder Bibliographical material undated

Folder Registration of birth

Folder Stories for publication: "Death of a Dog," "Contact," and "Dirt in the House"

Folder "For the Love of the Word," The Horn Book Magazine, [annotated and signed] Sept/Oct

Box 2

Item 1: Distinguished Alumni Award, plaque

Item 2: The Hans Christian Andersen Award Medal, certificate

Item 3: Diploma of Merit from the Hans Christian Andersen Award

Item 4: Award of the Children&#;s Book Committee of the Child Study

Item 5: Association of American, certificate

Item 6: The National Book Award, certificate

Item 7: Perfume bottle in case that had belonged to his mother (with documentation)

Box 3

Folder 1: Letters to brother, David

Folder 2: Letters to E.

Austin

Folder 3: Letters to Gerald Elliott

Folder 4: Correspondence

Folder 5: Childhood autobiography by De Jong/Hartzell:  When I Was a Kid

Folder 6: Love in Old Age: A Memoir of Meindert De Jong, by Judith Hartzell

Folder 7: Ruger, Hendrika, "The Image of Netherlands in Children&#;s Literature." Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies: Spring

Folder 8: Harms, Richard H., "Meindert & David De Jong." Michigan History Magazine Sept/Oct

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