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Minn of the Mississippi /written and illustrated by Holling Clancy Holling.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company ; 1951.; Cambridge [Massachusetts] : Riverside Press, (c)1951.Description: 85 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780395175781
  • 9780395273999
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QL666 .M566 1951
Available additional physical forms:
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Contents:
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.
Awards:
  • Newbery Honor Book, 1952.
Subject: 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.
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Juvenile Book (10-day checkout) Juvenile Book (10-day checkout) G. Allen Fleece Library JUVENILE-NEWBERY Fiction QL 666 .C539 H64 1951 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001754718

Scientific information presented in a fictional form. Maps and information in margins.

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Newbery Honor Book, 1952.

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.

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