The apple and the arrow

Mary Buff Conrad Buff

About this book

Eleven-year-old Walter Tell awaits the skillful demonstration of his father William, a Swiss freedom fighter, who will shoot an apple from his head.

Subjects

  • boys, fiction
  • children's fiction
  • fairy tales
  • fathers and sons
  • fiction
  • folklore
  • history
  • juvenile fiction
  • newbery honor
  • switzerland, fiction
  • tell, wilhelm
  • tell, wilhelm, juvenile literature