Knight Crusader

Knight Crusader
Cover of first edition
AuthorRonald Welch
IllustratorWilliam Stobbs
LanguageEnglish
SeriesCarey family
SubjectCrusader states, Third Crusade, Anglo-Norman England
GenreChildren's historical novel
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date
1954
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages272 pp (first edition)
ISBN0192770861 (1979)
OCLC315242056
LC ClassPZ7.W4489 Kn[1]

Knight Crusader, "the story of Philip d'Aubigny", is a children's historical novel by Ronald Welch (Ronald Oliver Fenton), first published by Oxford in 1954 with illustrations by William Stobbs. It is set primarily in the Crusader states of Outremer in the twelfth century and features the Battle of Hattin and the Third Crusade. Welch won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.[2]

  1. ^ "Knight crusader" (first edition). Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 6 September 2012.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference medal1954 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).