Tony and the Wonderful Door by Howard Fast

And the U.K.’s second-place position at last year’s Eurovision Song Contest has helped kickstart widespread enthusiasm for 2023’s edition - taking place in Liverpool this week. Illustrations by Imero Gobbato add new dimensions all their own.LONDON (AP) - There’s nothing like nearly winning to wake people up. A charming fantasy, it is also a warmly human story of people and hope. Howard Fast's story of Tony's adventures on both sides of the wonderful door is a tale that can be read on several levels. Old Doc Forbes was the only one who, at least, was willing to listen. His parents tried to understand but it just seemed as if he were lying. Gone were the dirty streets and hot pavements and in their place were lush fields and meadows and real Indians and, best of all, Tony's friend Peter Van Doben.īut no one believed Tony about the fantastic things behind the door.

It looked like an ordinary door in a tenement fence but when Tony went through it (and he only opened it when he felt a special way) everything was suddenly different. Except, that is, when he went through the wonderful door. His family was poor but he went to school and played games and did all the things that ten-year-old boys do. Tony lived an ordinary life in New York City in the early Twenties. At the same time, valuable lessons are taught on the meaning of equality.įrom the dust jacket of the 1952 Blue Heron Press first edition The struggle to enter the world of adulthood, so important in the life of any child, is also depicted here. Here is rich and entertaining stuff on the early American Indians, the Dutch village that was once New York, as well as the New York of only yesterday.

The story of Tony and his wonderful door presents, in a subtle way, a very important lesson for children of almost all ages - and for many grownups too. Out of his vivid imagination he creates a very wonderful door, and when he steps through that door - well, it would spoil the book to tell any more of what happens. Tony is a little boy who grows up on New York's east side in the early 1920's.

Here is the story of Tony and his wonderful door, a delightful and meaningful children's story for our time. Anthologies Articles Films Intros Juvenile Mystery Non-fiction Novels Pamphlets Plays Poetry StoriesĪbout HF Texts Reviews Chrono Checklist Bookstore Bulletin Board Site Search Author Index Title Indexīlue Heron Press Citizen Tom Paine Freedom Road Last Frontier My Glorious Brothers Spartacus The Children Peekskill Unvanquished Masuto EVC's Womenįrom the dust jacket of the 1968 Knopf edition

Tony and the Wonderful Door by Howard Fast