For well over thirty years, Eric P. Kelly’s Newbery Award winner has brought the color and romance of ancient times to young readers. Today, The Trumpeter of Krakow is an absorbing and dramatic as when it was first published in 1928.
By the time Billy Roper was one year old, his dad was toting him along on horseback rides, and in a few more years Billy was leading his own pony around the corral.