The House of Sixty Fathers | Related Titles/Adaptations
The House of Sixty Fathers is the only one of DeJong's books not set in Holland or the American Midwest, but it shares themes with The Singing Hill, in which a little boy must cope with loneliness and fear when his brother and sister go to school, leaving him without companionship. A difficult journey—for a dog in Hurry Home Candy and for a Dutch boy in both Far Out the Long Canal and Journey from Peppermint Street—is a common theme in DeJong's work. Although Moonta, in Far Out the Long Canal, lives in a peaceful village, he faces perils when he...
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