The Trumpeter of Krakow
Registered by elissamay of Brooklyn, New York USA on 9/22/2009
This book is in a Controlled Release!
This book is in a Controlled Release!
5 journalers for this copy...
I'm a school librarian. When I started my job four years ago, the library had been vacant and was filled floor to ceiling with garbage and abandoned books. Somewhere in that mess I found about 80 copies of The Trumpeter of Krakow, a book that in my time at my school I've never seen any child read. Nor has any classroom teacher I've talked to ever had a child read this book or even seen them pick up a copy. To be fair, it has one of the least appealing covers known to man. So I liberated a copy and am braving it to see what all the (lack of) fuss is about for spacedog's Newbery bookring.
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
Put this book in the mail for spacedog's Newbery bookring.
Put this book in the mail for spacedog's Newbery bookring.
I received this book! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing this book. It was fun to learn about the trumpeter!
I will be sending this book to the next reader!
I will be sending this book to the next reader!
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
This book is traveling to spacedog as part of Spacedog's Newberry Round 6 Bookring!
This book is traveling to spacedog as part of Spacedog's Newberry Round 6 Bookring!
got while i was out of town. am a bit behind on the books, but will try to catch up over the holidays. thanks.
eh. these older newbery winners can be a bit of a crapshoot sometimes, and the stiffness of the writing didn't help make the fairly banal story any more engaging. the book seems to be trying to capture the epic scope of a fantasy novel, but as it's rooted in history there's an awkwardness in always having to keep to the realm of reality. the writer, who apparently was a college professor, also bogs down the text with unnecessary details.
thanks. will be sending off shortly.
thanks. will be sending off shortly.
Arrived safely yesterday in one of those handy reusable BookCrossing mailers! Will read as soon as I can and pass along to the next person.
I can barely keep my head above water with all of my school work and my family responsibilities so I am passing this one along unread. Sorry to have kept it for so long, I really had hoped to get to it though.
In the mail today.
In the mail today.
Received today with thanks. I'm leaving for vacation tomorrow, so I'll read it when I get home.
Here's another copy on my bookshelf.
Here's another copy on my bookshelf.
My Polish co-worker says you can still hear the trumpeter play the Heynal - they even play it on the radio sometimes. :)I agree, I don't think much of the cover; I've seen worse cover art, but this one doesn't even have very much to do with the story... :(
I'm checking with elissamay to see where this goes next.
Update May 2011: my co-worker recently went home to Poland for a visit and she remembered this conversation we had almost a year ago. She brought back a bookmark for me, and it shows St. Mary's Basilica and the tower from which the famous tune is played (it's the taller of the two towers shown in the central small picture). :D
elissamay says she's not in a hurry to get this book back, so it's going back to knitwit for a second try...via media mail.
Back with me for another try. Received last week when we were away.
Holy cow - I never even journaled it when I finished it. Sorry.
Historical fiction for kids, my favorite. Enjoyed this one enough that I may need to rustle up a copy for my own permanent collection.
Elissamay does not need the book back so it will be released somewhere near here in the future. I'm thinking the bench by the pond once the temps rise a bit and the trees are blooming.
Historical fiction for kids, my favorite. Enjoyed this one enough that I may need to rustle up a copy for my own permanent collection.
Elissamay does not need the book back so it will be released somewhere near here in the future. I'm thinking the bench by the pond once the temps rise a bit and the trees are blooming.
Donating to the Friends of the Bucks County Free Library.
Donating to the Friends of the Bucks County Free Library.
