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The singing tree by kate seredy5/19/2023 Father never spoke of the war and soon they all learned not to ask about it, because then his face would darken as if he were in pain. I found much more to love this time around: there are more of the lovely stories of country life in Hungary in the early 1900's than I had remembered (the first third of the book is pre-war), and the wartime stories are more touching. I decided I needed to read it again to give it a more fair assessment. My reaction to this book as a teenager was "meh" I didn't care for the more serious tone of this book. In The Singing Tree, Kate's and Jansci's fathers go off to war (WWI), and the two cousins, who are now teenagers, take care of the family farm in the Hungarian steppes, as well as their grandparents, some neighbors who need a place to stay, six Russian POWs, and six German children who are refugees. This 1939 Newbery Honor book is a sequel to The Good Master, one of my childhood favorites, about two cousins and their wonderful adventures in the Hungarian countryside in the early part of the 1900s.
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