This book, the first Australian edition, is clearly a wartime edition with its single colour dust jacket and the lower quality of the paper stock. The result of this exchange was Seredys first book, The Good Master (1935), which received Newbery honor status in 1936. Read more US 5.49 Buy It Now Add to cart Add to Watchlist Breathe easy. Used book that is in clean, average condition. The book was intially published in 1935 by Viking, New York. The Good Master Free US Delivery ISBN:0590445502 1 product rating Condition: Good Former library book may include library markings.

The latter book is about the changes brought by World War I on Kate and her family and depicts the effects of war. The Good Master is about a young girl Kate who is sent to stay with her uncle's family in the country after her mother dies. The Good Master is the first of her books, and as with its sequel, The Singing Tree, it is a story of life in Hungary in the eary part of the 20th century. Kate Seredy was a Hungarian-born illustrator and author of children's books who lived in the United States after 1922. Page Structure is sound with no missing pages. Bookseller's sticker on front endpage and previous owner's name on front free endpage.Įnd Matters – List of Pronunciations and Meanings: list of Hungarian terms used in the book.

Good condition with some shelf wear and bumping.Įnd Papers are intact, white. Jancsi is overjoyed to hear that his cousin from Budapest is coming to spend the summer on his fathers ranch on the Hungarian. Harrap & Company, Sydney.Ĭover is hard bound in brown cloth. A story about the boy Jancsi who lives with his mother and his father, the Good Master, on a farm in Hungary about his cousin Kate who comes from the. 1939 Edition ('Special Australian Edition' - First Australian edition).

The Good Master by Kate Seredy