Newbery Medal (John Newbery Medal)
Adam of the Road (Puffin Modern Classics)
Book Information
- Publisher
- Puffin Books
- Published
- 2006-10-05
- Pages
- 320 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 12.7 x 2.2 x 17.8 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780142406595
- ISBN-10
- 0142406597
- Price
- 2415 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Children's Books/Literature & Fiction/Historical Fiction/Europe
Eleven-year-old Adam loved to travel throughout thirteenthcentury England with his father, a wandering minstrel, and his dog, Nick. But when Nick is stolen and his father disappears, Adam suddenly finds himself alone. He searches the same roads he traveled with his father, meeting various people along the way. But will Adam ever find his father and dog and end his desperate search?
Elizabeth Janet Gray (1902–1999) was born and grew up in Philadelphia. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College, and in the years that followed, under the names Elizabeth Janet Gray and Elizabeth Gray Vining, she wrote many books for adults and children, including the Newbery Award winner Adam of the Road . During and immediately after World War II, Elizabeth worked for the American Friends Service Committee. In 1946 she was appointed tutor to Crown Prince Akihito of Japan and later wrote the widely read Windows for the Crown Prince . She is the author of several novels and biographies and two autobiographical works. Robert Lawson (1892–1957) received his art training at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art. His favorite medium, pen and ink, is used expressively and with detail in his black and white illustrations in The Story of Ferdinand (by Munro Leaf). In addition to illustrating many children's books, including Mr. Popper's Penguins , Lawson also wrote and illustrated a number of his own books for children. In 1940, he was awarded the Caldecott Medal for his picture book illustrations in They Were Strong and Good; and in 1944, he was awarded the Newbery Medal for his middle-grade novel Rabbit Hill .
Reviews
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This book made me feel so confused. It takes place in the middle ages and is fairly easy to read...except the descriptions of things that i have never seen because they existed in the middle-ages! The book needs lots of illustrations to be able to understand whqt the author is talking about. I wasn’t able to finish it and donated it to a second hand shop.
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Only half way through but its engaging and informative. Perfect for a Charlotte Mason school
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Item just as described. Fast delivery. Thank you!
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Adam is an apprentice minstrel, traveling around England with his father and his beloved dog, entertaining at inns and at homes for the wealthy. But when Adam accidentally gets separated from both his father and his dog, he has to set off on a long adventure on his own to find them, and in the process meets people of all ranks in society, most of them kindly and generous, but also including a few thieves and bandits. Grey Vining researched the history, society, songs, poems and English-language idioms of the time, as well as the occasional phrase of Latin that a boy with a few years of schooling might know. Kids will have to do a little work with the dictionary, but for a "hero's journey" story about someone roughly their own age, it should be rewarding.
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This is a great story from an age when telling a good story was more important than political correctness. I'm reading it to my boys for a homeschooling unit on the medieval period, and the accuracy of the historical detail is remarkable, but never overshadows the story itself. I wouldn't be surprised if it went out of print in coming years. That would be a terrible loss.