Description
Good dust jacket, a book jacket cover has been added, wear and chips at the head and foot of spine and edges of the cover, tree illustration on front continuing to the spine, white lettering on cover and spine. The Very Good binding is tan cloth over boards with a blue line illustration, blue lettering on spine, the cover shows some toning, outside page edges show some staining, pictorial endpapers. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The illustrations are great with full color portraits of Kate and Jancsi, black-and-white illustrations can be found throughout the book.
About the book: (from the dust jacket)
THE SINGING TREE By Kate Seredy, illustrated by the Author. At the Good Master’s ranch, on the Hungarian plains, everything was gay and carefree for Jancsi and his cousin Kate The whole countryside turned out for the colorful folk-festivals and weddings; the bees droned among the acacia blossoms by old Uncle Moses’ store in the village.
Then the Great War came, and all this jollity was suddenly gone. The women and children were left in charge. For two years Jancsi was the Master on the Nagy ranch, the haven of relatives and prisoners and refugee children, and his mother and Kate held this world together.
It is a beautiful and stirring story Young people will take it to their hearts, for it is truly their book. It sings like the Singing Tree itself, full of birds greeting the dawn, of which Kate’s uncle, Márton, tells when he returns home.
