![]() ![]() ![]() Kelly sets a scene for us of a city bustling with merchants and university students. ![]() I found it sort of fascinating to think that this book was written through the eyes of someone who visited the city in the 1920’s, while it tells the story of life in the city many years earlier.Īnd this book is really about medieval life in the city of Krakow more than a specific battle or conflict. Kelly describes the neighborhoods, the streets, the Cloth Market, the Vistula River, and the winding road leading up to Wawel Castle. Reading this book was in some ways, like revisiting the city. When we entered the town, passing under its medieval walls, our guidebook mentioned this famous trumpeter. ![]() Krakow was one of my favorite cities in Eastern Europe. My grandfather came to America from Poland, so this trip had special significance. While I’m always happy to read a Newbery award-winner, I became interested in this book when I visited Krakow in 2011. Then it tells the fictional story of a 14 th century boy who learns to sound those same notes and honor the memory of the fallen trumpeter. It tells the true story of a 12 th century boy in Krakow who dies will blowing a trumpet on the town walls during the invasion of the Tartars. Kelly in 1928 and won a Newbery award in 1929. ![]()
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