by Christopher Paul Curtis · Laurel Leaf · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9780553494105
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«Bud, Not Buddy» is the young-adult novel by Christopher Paul Curtis, published by Laurel Leaf in paperback (288 pages, in English).
In 1936, in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, Bud, a ten-year-old orphan, runs away from a foster home and travels across the country with his suitcase and his rules for a more fun life. He believes that the flyers his mother left him, announcing Herman E. Calloway and his band, will lead him to his father; neither hunger nor fear stops him.
This edition was published in 2004. The novel was recognized with the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Award. Christopher Paul Curtis also wrote The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963.
For child and young-adult readers aged 9 to 12, with an adventure narrated from the perspective of a boy in the 1930s.
Christopher Paul Curtis is an American children's book author. His first novel, The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963, was published in 1995 and brought him immediate national recognition, receiving the Coretta Scott King Honor Book Award and the Newbery Honor Book Award, in addition to numerous other awards. In 2000, he became the first person to win both the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Award—prizes received for his second novel Bud, Not Buddy—and the first African-American man to win the Newbery Medal. His novel The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 was made into a television film in 2013.
