Minn of the Mississippi /written and illustrated by Holling Clancy Holling.
Material type: TextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company ; 1951.; Cambridge [Massachusetts] : Riverside Press, (c)1951.Description: 85 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780395175781
- 9780395273999
- 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
- QL666 .M566 1951
- COPYRIGHT NOT covered - Click this link to request copyright permission:
- Newbery Honor Book, 1952.
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Scientific information presented in a fictional form. Maps and information in margins.
Publisher's advertisements on dust jacket.
COPYRIGHT NOT covered - Click this link to request copyright permission:
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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