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Minn of the Mississippi
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- Summary
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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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- Creator
- written and illustrated by Holling Clancy Holling
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company ; Cambridge [Massachusetts] : Riverside Press, [1951]
- ©1951
- Physical Details
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- 85 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm
- ISBNs
- 039517578X, 9780395175781, 0395273994, 9780395273999, 0808579916, 9780808579915
- OCLC
- ocm04550225, ocm00480499, ocm00480499
- 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
Subjects
- Snapping turtles -- Juvenile fiction.
- Voyages and travels -- Juvenile fiction.
- Nature stories.
- 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.
- Mississippi River -- Juvenile fiction.
- Children's stories, American -- 20th century.
- Snapping turtles -- Fiction.
Children's Subject Heading
- Turtles -- Fiction.
Children's Subject Heading
- Mississippi River -- Fiction.
Children's Subject Heading