Newbery Award & Honor Winners: 1940 Winner & Honorees

Tells the story of the life of the rugged frontiersman and pioneer leader who helped settle Kentucky.

A prince seeks the Singing Ringing Tree to please a vain and selfish princess so she will marry him, but the quest is dangerous and results in great misery for both before true love puts everything to rights.

Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.