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Elizabeth Janet Gray

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(1902 - 1999)

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Elizabeth Janet Gray Vining (1902 – 1999), was an American professional librarian and author who tutored Emperor Akihito of Japan in English while he was crown prince. She was also a noted author whose children’s book, Adam of the Road, received the Newbery Award in 1943.



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Adam of the Road (1942)

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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.

The Newbery Award seal was applied to the dust jacket by the time of the second printing in June 1943. The paper in the first printing is unusually heavy for a war time book, but by the second and third printings, it had noticably decreased in thickness.

The green cloth binding of the first printing became blue in subsequent printings.

Read online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Elizabeth Janet Gray
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

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Adam of the Road (1943)

adam of the road gary lawson 1943 UK dj book cover

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 is the first British edition. The type was reset, reducing the page count considerably. The prefatory poem is missing.

Author(s): Elizabeth Janet Gray
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

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Adam of the Road (1949)

adam of the road gary lawson 1949 UK dj book cover

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.

Author(s): Elizabeth Janet Gray
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

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Young Walter Scott (1935)

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An imaginative biography of Sir Walter Scott’s youth.

Author(s): Elizabeth Janet Gray
Illustrator(s): Kate Seredy

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