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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
1944

Pages
  
256

Author
  
Page count
  
256

Illustrator
  
3.7/5
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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print

Originally published
  
1944

Genre
  
Children's literature

ISBN
  
0140347925

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John Newbery Medal winners, Children's literature

the silver pencil summary


The Silver Pencil is a children's novel by Alice Dalgliesh. Based on the author's life, it tells of the childhood and young adulthood of Janet Laidlaw in the early years of the twentieth century. She moves from Trinidad to England, then to the United States and Nova Scotia, becoming a teacher and a writer. The novel, illustrated by Katherine Milhous, was first published in 1944 and was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1945.

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