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Winner of the Julia Ellsworth For Foundation Award For Children's Literature
THE UNANIMOUS CHOICE OF THE JUDGES
A beautifully written book in every respect. Exciting reading, includes borses and romance, just enough of each to lend charm. -ELLEN BUELL, N. Y. Times
A lively, interesting story with an unusual background and an unusual period... It bas pace and style... Fresh and absorbing-a natural for the prize.-PHYLLIS FENNER, Librarian, Planedome School
An unusually fine and sensitive book for boys and girls. It is that rare thing, a story that does not follow a well established pattern. -VIRGINIA MATHEWS
In the romantic days when California was ruled by the Spaniards, Angelita, a beautiful, spirited, red-headed girl, daughter of one of the great Span ish families, befriended a ragged little Indian boy after he had been whipped by her father. From that moment on, Tomás was her devoted friend, and he did everything she asked, even against his better judgment. The risks he took for her when she defied her father grew greater as the years went by. And finally, he took the greatest risk of all, when he helped her elope with the Spanish Don she loved.
Boys and girls will be thrilled by this story of ranch life with its details of branding and round ups. They will love good Father Boniface, who sheltered Tomás in his mission, and Ti' Anna, the old Indian woman, whose wisdom guided Tomás' destiny. Written with distinction and skill by a highly gifted storyteller, it is sure to fascinate everyone with imagination and an interest in people of other times and other places.Language
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TOMAS AND THE RED-HEADED ANGEL. By Marlon Garthwalte. Illustrated by Lorence Bjork lund. New York: Julian Mesner: 190 pp.: $2.50.
CALIFORNIA'S golden age when Franciscan Fathers shuttled back and forth on the King's Highway and the great haciendas proffered hospitality to the rare guest is the scene of Mrs. Garthwaite's story. Perhaps the most important thing about the book, except the fact that it holds the reader spellbound from the first paragraph to the last, is that the author hasn't sentimentalized the California scene as many writers of adult fiction have done.
The de la Marenga hacienda, home of proud Don Luis and his gentle wife Dona Maria, stands 200 miles down the coast from Monterey. One stormy evening Father Boniface brings to the hacienda a baby girl whose hair is "the color of the gilded ornaments on the altar of the mission." She is the child of Don Luis's dead sister whom he disowned when she ran away to marry a dancing mag ter. Dona Maria, who has two sons but no daughters pleads with her, husband to keep the baby and calls her Angelita.
Gay and spirited, Angelita captures the hearts of everyone except that of her foster father. The little Indian boy Tomas becomes her devoted slave when she com forts him one day after Don Luis lashes him. Tomas learns early that because he is an Indian he can call nothing his own. When his young master covets his horse, he must give it up without com plaining.
Life at the hacienda is vividly pictured for teen-age readers. In the corrals, Tomas tends the fires to beat the branding irons while his father and other vaqueros twirl their reatas to catch the calves. Gay cavalcades canter down the roads to attend a fiesta at the mission. Tomas helps in the hunt for thieves. Angelita and her brothers run off secretly to watch a gringo ship arrive. A great flood sends families and servants to the Highlands,
When Angelita grows up her coppery curls and sea green eyes stir the hearts of all the young dons. Her elopement and Toman's Journey to the land of the Awahnees ends the story [Missing].Language
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Catalogued 1950Language
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