by Christopher Paul Curtis · Scholastic Inc · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780439221887
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«Bud, Not Buddy» is a young adult historical fiction novel by Christopher Paul Curtis, published by Scholastic Inc. in paperback (256 pages, in English).
In 1936 Michigan, during the Great Depression, ten-year-old orphan Bud Caldwell runs away from a foster family and sets out to find bandleader H.E. Calloway, convinced he is his father. With only the clues of some posters his mother left him, his journey blends humor, resilience, and jazz as a guiding thread.
Winner of the Newbery Medal (2000) and the Coretta Scott King Book Award; the work was originally published in 1999.
Aimed at young readers, it is a work of historical fiction for those who want to learn about the Great Depression through the eyes of a child.
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.
