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| Author | Ronald Welch |
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| Illustrator | William Stobbs |
| Language | English |
| Series | Carey family |
| Subject | Crusader states, Third Crusade, Anglo-Norman England |
| Genre | Children's historical novel |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Publication date | 1954 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 272 pp (first edition) |
| ISBN | 0192770861 (1979) |
| OCLC | 315242056 |
| LC Class | PZ7.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]
- ^ "Knight crusader" (first edition). Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 6 September 2012.
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