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Type: Hardcover
Item#: C5417
ISBN#: 0395954479
Illustrated with powerful, evocative woodcuts by Michael McCurdy * Recommended for ages 10 and up
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A Classic for the children you love -- or for yourself
Johnny Tremain
by Forbes, Esther
To read Esther Forbes’ 1943 Newbery Award Winner is to live through two dramatic years of our country’s history—and to see great events from a new angle, through the eyes of an observant young boy. No wonder it is considered one of the finest historical novels ever written for children.
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Two problems arise these days when we go to great children's classics. Often the modern editions are bowdlerized (sometimes to accommodate liberal prejudices), and contemporary illustrations often miss the flavor. Not so with this gift-quality volume. It comes complete and unabridged. And it boasts illustrations that preserve and enhance the classic story line -- perhaps similar to the one you enjoyed when you curled up with this book on a cold winter's night long ago. It comes in a handsome jacket that invites the reader inside.
Now you can give the gift of the best children's literature to the boys and girls you love -- or you can buy this book for yourself. It's hard to say who'll enjoy it more.
JOHNNY TREMAIN
To read Esther Forbes's 1943 Newbery Award Winner is to live through two dramatic years of our country's history -- and to see great events from a new angle, through the eyes of an observant young boy.
Johnny Tremain is an apprentice silversmith, until a tragic accident burns his hand. Bouncing back from a period of despair, Johnny becomes a dispatch rider for the Committee of Public Safety. This brings him in touch with famous American patriots and battles.
Forbes's adult novel, Paul Revere and the World He Lived In, won the 1942 Pulitzer Prize for history. The research she conducted for that book inspired her to write about the lives of the apprentices in the shops and on the wharves of colonial Boston. Forbes put into Johnny Tremain all her knowledge of Revolutionary America. No wonder it is considered one of the finest historical novels ever written for children.
The reviewers spotted a classic at the time of its publication:
"Esther Forbes's power to create, and to recreate, a face, a voice, a scene takes us as living spectators to the Boston Tea Party, to the Battle of Lexington and of North Creek."--Saturday Review
"Esther Forbes at her brilliant best. Youth, particularly, will get from Johnny Tremain as live and clear and significant a picture of a great period in American history as has recently been penned."--Book Week
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