Vocab
Dutch candy treats.
What is a wineball?
The girl who wondered about storks.
Who is Lina?
The country that is mostly below sea level.
What is The Netherlands?
The continent that storks migrate to in the winter when they fly south.
What is Africa?
A mosquito.
What bit Janus causing him to lose his legs?
A black and white bird in the Netherlands.
What is a magpie?
The boy who helped the tinman get a wheel for his wagon.
Who is Auka?
The fictional village in Friesland where the story takes place.
What is Shora?
Unlike storks, this bird builds nests in shallow water.
What are cranes?
Was asked to help the children put up the wheel.
What are the dads?
A warm box to put your feet in.
What is a footstove?
The legless man who helped the kids get the wheel out of the canal.
Who is Janus?
One of the two countries that border the Netherlands?
What is Belgium or Germany?
The place people put wheels to attract storks.
What is a roof?
The loft.
Where did Eelka find a wheel?
To roam aimlessly.
What is "wander"?
As a boy, he rescued his father from being trapped under a boat.
Who is Douwa?
The capital of The Netherlands.
What is Amsterdam?
The length of a stork's wingspan.
What is nine feet?
The tower.
From where did Linda and Jan see the storks?
A Dutch pastor.
What is a dominie?
Lina's little sister who saw storks.
Who is Linda?
The sea that borders The Netherlands.
What is the North Sea?
The sound the storks make.
What is silence?
A storm has likely disrupted the storks' migration and won't be headed to The Netherlands.
What did the newspaper say?