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Golem
• David Wisniewski
• Lee Salsberry
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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A retelling of a Jewish legend, set in Prague in the 16th century, a dark time for the city's Jewish residents. A rabbi builds a clay giant to protect his people from persecution; the golem, in this version, speaks with a child's simplicity. The remarkable paper-cutout illustrations brilliantly evoke the Prague of old.
(CZH38, $17.00)
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The Good Master
• Kate Seredy
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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First published in the 1930s, this novel tells of two cousins who ride horses across the Hungarian plains, encountering shepherds and gypsies en route. It's all marvelously evocative of the folk customs and lifestyles of old Hungary. Ages 9-12.
(HGR25, $5.99)
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Marie Antoinette, Princess of Versailles (Austria-Hungary, 1769)
• Kathryn Lasky
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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The ill-fated future queen of France records life at the Habsburg palace in Austria in this novel-in-diary-format, written by the reliably excellent children's author Kathryn Lasky.
(FRN342, $10.95)
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Play, Mozart, Play!
• Peter Sis
• MUSIC
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
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With colorful, exuberant illustrations, children's book author and illustrator extraordinaire, Peter Sis brings Mozart to life in this playful celebration of the musician's 250th birthday.
(AST85, $16.99)
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The Singing Tree
• Kate Seredy
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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The sequel to "The Good Master," in which cousins Jancsi and Kate are now older -- and Hungary (and all of 1914 Europe) are on the brink of war.
(HGR26, $6.99)
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The Star of Kazan
• Eva Ibbotson
• Kevin Hawkes
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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A delightful young adult adventure that twists and turns through fin-de-siecle Vienna. Annika is a foundling taken in by a household of eccentic professors and kind hearted servants, is enchanted by the spectacle of Vienna and the simple pleasures of domestic chores. Her life is turned upsidedown when her aristocratic mother unexpectedly reappears in her life and sweeps her off to live in a castle in Germany.
(CEU24, $7.99)
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The Three Golden Keys
• Peter Sis
• LITERATURE
• FAMILY
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In this entrancing picture book, Sis meets the Golem and Hanus the Clockmaker and other characters from his childhood in Prague, both imagined and real,
(CZH39, $23.00)
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Upon the Head of the Goat, A Childhood in Hungary, 1939-1944
• Aranka Siegal
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• YOUNG ADULTS
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This spare memoir of a Jewish girlhood in a German-occupied Hungarian town won its author a Newbery Honor citation. Its serious subject and introspective tone are recommended for sophisticated young adults.
(HGR24, $6.95)
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The White Stag
• Kate Seredy
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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Kate Seredy drew on oral traditions and folklore for this gripping novella about the Huns' and Magyars' fifth-century migration from Asia to Central Europe. It won her a Newbery Medal in 1938. Ages 9 to 12.
(HGR27, $4.99)
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