TY - BOOK AU - Holling,Holling Clancy AU - Houghton,Mifflin and Company AU - Riverside Press (Cambridge,Mass) TI - Minn of the Mississippi /written and illustrated by Holling Clancy Holling SN - 9780395175781 AV - QL666 .M566 1951 PY - 1951/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin Company KW - Snapping turtles KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Voyages and travels KW - Natural history KW - Ecology KW - Animals KW - Indians of North America KW - River life KW - Boat living KW - River steamers KW - Dams KW - Floods KW - Mississippi River KW - Hurricanes KW - Fiction KW - Turtles N1 - 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; 2 N2 - 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 ER -