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The Little Grey Men: A Story for the Young in Heart

BB

First published 1942
Publisher Eyre & Spottiswoode
Format Hardcover
Type Novel
Cover art BB
Pages xii+201

Notes

  • 1st ed.
  • Includes music (see 1st US ed., 1949)
  • Price from brief review The Scotsman 1949-12-03 p7 "Animals in Fact and Fancy" (very positive)
  • Wikipedia displays as "First edition (UK)" front cover image that shows: illegible signature, "Illustrations by D.J. Watkins Pitchford" (no hyphen).
  • The jacket artist is the writer-illustrator, from images and information provided by Wikipedia and two dealers at ABEbooks 2018-02-19.
  • Reginald1 has the year as 1947 (typo?) and page count as 188..

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Awards

Year Award Category Status
1942 Carnegie Medal for Writing Carnegie Medal Winner

Other Editions

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The Little Grey Men: A Story for the Young in Heart Cover 1962 Puffin Paperback Novel PS160 Edward Ardizzone 255
The Little Grey Men Cover 2001 Oxford University Press Trade Paperback Novel 246
The Little Grey Men Cover 2004 Oxford University Press Trade Paperback Novel 256
The Little Grey Men: A Story for the Young in Heart Cover 2004 HarperCollins Hardcover Novel Denys Watkins-Pitchford 293
The Little Grey Men: A Story for the Young in Heart Cover 2004 HarperCollins Hardcover Novel Denys Watkins-Pitchford viii+293