“There was this boy, Davie, and he was going to have a rabbit. His grandfather had promised it. A real, live rabbit. A little black rabbit, if possible. In a week, if possible. And this was in the Netherlands.”

—  Meindert DeJong, book Shadrach

Shadrach (1957)

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American children's writer 1906–1991

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