![]() ![]() While Bogdan (aka Button-Face Peter) plots to steal the crystal, the alchemist upstairs is going dangerously mad – one explosive experiment starts a great fire and much of the city is destroyed. ![]() In the two hundred years since, a trumpeter has played this song every hour, always breaking off the melody at the point where the youth was killed. Mary, and tells Joseph the legend of the young trumpeter who was killed while sounding the Heynal from the church tower. Andrew gets a job as trumpeter at the church of Our Lady St. ![]() The family hides, making friends with an alchemist and his daughter Elzbietka, whom young Joseph falls for immediately. ![]() Unfortunately the King is not in the city and Bogdan is hot on their heels. Next: more historical fiction about medieval times – Adam of the Road, The Whipping Boy, The Door in the WallĪ fictional tale of medieval Poland and Krakow’s great fire of 1461.Īfter Cossack-Tartars burn their farm the Charnetski family flees to Krakow so that father (Andrew) can turn over to the king the precious crystal that the Tartar Bogdan the Terrible seeks. Interests: medieval history, Poland, Krakow, adventure, action, religion, science NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER – 1929 The Trumpeter of Krakow ![]()
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