“There were no storks in Shora. Lina had written this story about storks of her own accord-the teacher hadn't asked her to write it. In fact, until Lina read it out loud to the five boys and the teacher, nobody in school had even thought about storks.”

—  Meindert DeJong , book The Wheel on the School

The Wheel on the School (1954)

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