Meindert DeJong's classic children's story from 1954. It all started because Lina, one of the six school children in the little Dutch fishing village of Shora, wrote a composition about storks. Lina's composition set the children thinking: why didn't the storks come to Shora? - and sometimes when you wonder why, you can begin to make things happen... This appears to be a copy of the first American edition, 1954. Dark blue cloth boards and cream spine. Binding firm. The dust jacket's spine is badly worn and chipped and the front flap is present but detached. The dj has the gold emblem of the Newbery Award. The illustrations are by (a young) Maurice Sendak. There are two stamps: one on the half-title ('United States Air Force'), and one on the title page ('Property of Base Library Greenham Common'). All other pages are clean and unmarked.