- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945, Rapids, Juvenile fiction, Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01431391
Alone in a sampan with his pig and three ducklings, a little Chinese boy is whirled down a raging river, back to the town from which he and his parents had escaped the invading Japanese, and spends long and frightening days regaining his family and new home. The novel was based on the author's own experiences as a military flier in China during the Second World War. The book won the Josette Frank Award in 1956.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Earnest, classical in form, grave and resolved.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Meindert DeJong
- First published
- 1958
- Pages
- 189
- Publisher
- Dell, John Murray, Perfection Learning Prebound
- Editions
- 27
- Language
- Chinese, und, dan, English
- ISBN
- 9780812463323
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 5 have read it and 5 want to.
“Rain raised the river.”
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
Number the Stars 190191% alikeBoth earnest, classical in form, grave.
Crispin--The Cross of Lead 200289% alikeBoth earnest, classical in form, grave.
The matchlock gun 194182% alikeBoth earnest, classical in form, grave.
White Fang 190582% alikeBoth earnest, classical in form, grave.
Lost in Shangri-la 201181% alikeBoth earnest, classical in form, grave.
The Incredible Journey 196081% alikeBoth earnest, classical in form, grave.
Both earnest, classical in form, grave.
Freewater 202279% alikeBoth earnest, grave, classical in form.
Shattered Glass 200379% alikeFilm · Both classical in form, earnest, grave.
Wall Street 198777% alikeFilm · Both classical in form, earnest, grave.