The words etched on his mother's treasured lead cross may provide some clue, but the priest is murdered before he can tell the illiterate lad what they say. Worse, Crispin is fingered for the ...

With Asta’s death, tongues are loosened. The village priest gives him a small cross of lead bearing the boy’s decidedly non-peasant name, Crispin. With no apparent cause, the overseer of the ...

It is the 1300s, the Dark Ages, and young orphan Crispin is literally running for his life in England in “Crispin: The Cross of Lead,” based ... always been known as Asta’s son, learns ...

It is the 1300s, the Dark Ages, and young orphan Crispin is literally running for his life in England in “Crispin: The Cross of Lead” based ... always been known as Asta’s son, learns ...

And My Friend Rabbit, illustrated and written by Eric Rohmann, received the Caldecott Medal, for the most distinguished American picture book for children. Crispin: The Cross of Lead, published by ...