Minn of the Mississippi /
Holling, Holling Clancy,
Minn of the Mississippi / [print] written and illustrated by Holling Clancy Holling. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company ; 1951. Cambridge [Massachusetts] : Riverside Press, [(c)1951. - 85 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm
Scientific information presented in a fictional form. Maps and information in margins. Publisher's advertisements on dust jacket.
Land of ancient waters One small turtle, two big boys A turtle starts traveling Waters can wander away The mother earth The river is a museum Below the water-wall Minn becomes a river-monster The lake in the river A country of builders River life has its downs and ups Ride the river in a barrel Sentinels of the crossroads When water runs over lawns and things Boats that changed the river Land of cotton and turtle stew Minn goes inland River of dreams Minn comes to the end of the line Treasure is where you find it.
Follows the adventures of Minn, a three-legged snapping turtle, as she slowly makes her way from her birthplace at the headwaters of the Mississippi River to the mouth of river on the Gulf of Mexico.
Newbery Honor Book, 1952.
039517578X 9780395175781 0395273994 9780395273999
51006290
Snapping turtles--Juvenile fiction.
Voyages and travels--Juvenile fiction.
Natural history.
Ecology--Juvenile fiction.
Animals--Juvenile fiction.
Indians of North America--Juvenile fiction.
River life--Juvenile fiction.
Boat living--Juvenile fiction.
River steamers--Juvenile fiction.
Dams--Juvenile fiction.
Floods--Mississippi River--Juvenile fiction.
Hurricanes--Juvenile fiction.
Snapping turtles--Fiction.
Turtles--Fiction.
Mississippi River--Juvenile fiction.
Mississippi River--Fiction.
QL666.H741.M566 1951
Minn of the Mississippi / [print] written and illustrated by Holling Clancy Holling. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company ; 1951. Cambridge [Massachusetts] : Riverside Press, [(c)1951. - 85 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm
Scientific information presented in a fictional form. Maps and information in margins. Publisher's advertisements on dust jacket.
Land of ancient waters One small turtle, two big boys A turtle starts traveling Waters can wander away The mother earth The river is a museum Below the water-wall Minn becomes a river-monster The lake in the river A country of builders River life has its downs and ups Ride the river in a barrel Sentinels of the crossroads When water runs over lawns and things Boats that changed the river Land of cotton and turtle stew Minn goes inland River of dreams Minn comes to the end of the line Treasure is where you find it.
Follows the adventures of Minn, a three-legged snapping turtle, as she slowly makes her way from her birthplace at the headwaters of the Mississippi River to the mouth of river on the Gulf of Mexico.
Newbery Honor Book, 1952.
039517578X 9780395175781 0395273994 9780395273999
51006290
Snapping turtles--Juvenile fiction.
Voyages and travels--Juvenile fiction.
Natural history.
Ecology--Juvenile fiction.
Animals--Juvenile fiction.
Indians of North America--Juvenile fiction.
River life--Juvenile fiction.
Boat living--Juvenile fiction.
River steamers--Juvenile fiction.
Dams--Juvenile fiction.
Floods--Mississippi River--Juvenile fiction.
Hurricanes--Juvenile fiction.
Snapping turtles--Fiction.
Turtles--Fiction.
Mississippi River--Juvenile fiction.
Mississippi River--Fiction.
QL666.H741.M566 1951