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Adam of the Road

adam of the road gary lawson 1949 UK dj book cover

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Author(s):Elizabeth Janet Gray
Illustrator(s):Robert Lawson
Publisher(s): Adam and Charles Black
Year Published: 1949
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Boys Growing Up
British
Dogs
Fiction - novel
Historical Fiction – Middle Ages
Play
Age Range: Ages 7-9: Short Chapter Books
Pages: 174
OCLC: 837737504
Award(s):
Newbery Medal
Newbery Medal - 1943

Description

In this story of thirteenth-century England, Adam travels from St. Albans Abbey to Winchester to Oxford in search of his father, a strolling player. This later edition uses one of the interior illustrations for the dust jacket. It maintains the different type setting of the first British edition.

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Other Editions

1942
(The Viking Press)
1943
(Adam and Charles Black)

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