Young Jancsi and his cousin Kate from Budapest race across the Hungarian plains on horseback, attend country. She knows people, too, and can make them so real and so alive that Jancsi, mischievous Kate, Jancsi's father, the lovable 'Good Master' and Jancsi's mother, hospitable and protective, remain with us after the book is closed.A lovely and distinguished piece of bookmaking. The Good Master (English, Paperback, Seredy Kate). Miss Seredy was born in Budapest and knows the country of which she writes. 'In both appearance and content THE GOOD MASTER is a genuinely joyous and beautiful book. The Good Master by Kate Seredy 5.0 Paperback (Reprint) 7. Title: The Good Master By: Kate Seredy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Vendor: Puffin Books Publication Date: 1986 Dimensions: 7.75 X 5. The events in the book are based on summers Seredy spent with her father on the rural plains while he studied peasant life. A story about the boy Jancsi who lives with his mother and his father, the 'Good Master,' on a farm in Hungary about his cousin Kate who comes from the city to live with them, and whose headstrong ways and tempers are set right by the kindly understanding of the Good Master about Kate's and Jancsi's races on horseback across the plains, their fun at the fair, their trouble with the gypsies about the shepherd who made wood carvings, and whose tales kept the children listening till sundown-a colorful story of customs and people of the great Hungarian plains. Background The Good Master was written after May Massee, childrens editor for Viking Press, suggested that illustrator Kate Seredy should write a story about her childhood in Hungary.