Another "find this book from my childhood" question...

[MrsMuddle]

It was a novel, and it was about children in Holland, and the storks nesting in cartwheels on the chimneys. I'm sure it was a puffin or a penguin book, and it was a mostly blue cover.

If you know what book this is, I'll be eternally grateful. It's been bugging me for years.

TIA

It is 'The Wheel on the School' by Meindert DeJong - the Puffin edition was published in 1961, and reprinted a number of times. Lovely illustrations by Maurice Sendak. I just checked and it's available through Amazon - there are also some nice copies of the edition that you remember on Abebooks.

and this is why I love mn so much!

Oh, I LOVED this book! Will buy it immediately so that my children can despise it!

Thank you SO much. I think I love you! I thought I was going mad because my sisters and parents didn't remember it at all. I will buy it now and present it to them.

Gosh yes I remember this book!

How strange because only yesterday it came up in conversation.

I always remember the children in the book being told to look anywhere you might expect to find a cartwheel and anywhere there couldn't possible be a cartwheel. I trotted this out to DH and DD when something was being looked for and they looked at me like I was mad! I then explained the background and they still seemed to find it rather strange as neither of them had ever heard of it.

Then I come on here and find that the book was not a figment of my imagination after all.....