 First edition | |
| Author | Mary Treadgold |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Stuart Tresilian (first ed.) |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's war novel, pony book |
| Publisher | Jonathan Cape |
Publication date | 1941 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 272 pp (first edition) |
| OCLC | 41974333 |
| LC Class | PZ7.T6893 Le[1] PZ7.T6893 We2[2] |
| Followed by | The Polly Harris |
We Couldn't Leave Dinah is a children's novel by Mary Treadgold, first published by Jonathan Cape in 1941 with illustrations by Stuart Tresilian.[3] It is a contemporary adventure story set on a fictional island in the English Channel during World War II and eventually during a German occupation. Treadgold won the 1941 Carnegie Medal recognising the year's outstanding children's book.[4]
In the US, it was published within the calendar year as Left Till Called For, with illustrations by Richard Floethe (Doubleday, Doran, 1941).[1][5][6] Penguin issued a Puffin Books edition under the original title in 1964, with illustrations including colour plates by Elisabeth Grant.[2][7] A 1946 French edition used the original Tresilian illustrations.[8]
- ^ a b "Left till called for" (first U.S. edition). Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
- ^ a b "We couldn't leave Dinah". LCC record. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
- ^ "We Couldn't Leave Dinah ... Illustrated from drawings by S. Tresilian" (Cape, 1941). WorldCat. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
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- ^ We Couldn't Leave Dinah (Penguin: Puffin Books #PS224). Harmondsworth, 1964; Baltimore, 1964. WorldCat. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
- ^ "Vacances de guerre {...} Illustrations de Stuart Tresilian" (Paris, 1946). WorldCat. Retrieved 12 January 2023.