![]() Winston Company, never did a good job of indicating first editions.and if it weren't for a couple "missing" elements, a first edition of this book would be nearly impossible to identify. ![]() ![]() So maybe I missed something the first time around.Īs as adult, I've found YOUNG FU to be one of the hardest Newbery first editions to identify. I haven't read it since, but it would probably be a good idea to pick it up again - especially since a friend recently told me this was her favorite book when she was growing up. At the time, I was not too impressed with this story of a boy who leaves his small Chinese village to become an apprentice coppersmith, finding the story episodic and the protagonist rather annoying as he gullibly stumbles into one scrape after another. I never even saw a copy of the book until I visited my aunt in Ann Arbor and she let me check the book out of the Ann Arbor Public Library on her card. ![]() When I was growing up, our local branch of the Detroit Public Library owned most of the Newbery Medal books, but the 1933 winner, Elizabeth Foreman Lewis's YOUNG FU OF THE UPPER YANGTZE, was missing. ![]()
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