The Trumpeter of Krakow
by Eric P. Kelly | Children's Books | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 059043683x Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 059043683x Global Overview for this book
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Got from Jen for Read the Newberys.
This is definitely better than the last few Newbery books (1922-1928), and honestly, I really wanted to like it, given my SIL's birthplace (Poland). But I guess the whole alchemy thing took so much away from the story where I was loving the people and the descriptions and pronouncing "Elzbietka" in my head that it made me not like it much. And of course, again I'm thinking of junior highers reading this and going, "HUH?!"
It's so odd to me that there I was, going along reading a story about a family in Krakow, and the next thing I know, I'm reading about "the dark arts", and I have to say, it was really an odd juxtaposition. It was almost as if I was reading two different books. And I have to say I liked the one about the Charnetskis better.
1922-1928 didn't do much for me. Let's hope "Hitty, Her First Hundred Years" (of 1930 is better. At least they're getting easier to read.
It's so odd to me that there I was, going along reading a story about a family in Krakow, and the next thing I know, I'm reading about "the dark arts", and I have to say, it was really an odd juxtaposition. It was almost as if I was reading two different books. And I have to say I liked the one about the Charnetskis better.
1922-1928 didn't do much for me. Let's hope "Hitty, Her First Hundred Years" (of 1930 is better. At least they're getting easier to read.
