Talk:The Road from Home

A fact from The Road from Home appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 October 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the book The Road from Home is the true story of a girl whose father, mother, brothers, and sisters all died during the Armenian Genocide?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2014/October.

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Illustration by Nonny Hogrogian

posted and revised within a few minutes -P64

We say in the infobox, "Cover artist: Nonny Hogrogian (1995 and later editions)". Before revisiting the page for a direct quotation, I misunderstood the meaning as interior illustrations rather than cover art only (or frontispiece only). So it was a good idea to go back for a quotation.

Today I worked some on the new article David Kherdian and I didn't find WorldCat library catalog records that mention illustration by Hogrogian. I suppose the source is examination of a 1995 copy. I did check all six WorldCat library records that give the 1995 date (Formats and Editions, page 5 of 6). A map and 2 pages of plates are mentioned there.

Cover art is routinely worth coverage in the infobox only and I agree that that is sufficient here! --P64 (talk) 20:15, 31 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Subtitle

I doubt the book was retitled in 1995. Not one WorldCat library record (see "Formats and Editions" linked above) gives the supposedly new title, The Road from Home: A True Story of Courage, Survival, and Hope. The foreign-language titles all fit the original subtitle, The Story of an Armenian Girl, if i skim and judge correctly. And my experience shows that variant titles routinely show up in WorldCat records.

I suppose that A True Story of Courage, Survival, and Hope is merely part of a new cover or dustjacket design. --P64 (talk) 20:21, 31 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The U.S. library of congress has (shows online) only two catalog records, 1979 Greenwillow LCCN 78-72511and 1988 Puffin reprint LCCN 87-24156. The second notes 2 pages plates and quotes "Ages 10–14" from the design/publisher. Both give a Biography subject heading (LCSH) and Summary and show LC Class DR, or (we say) World History: Balkan Peninsula.

--P64 (talk) 20:34, 31 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]