Title The wool-pack / written and illustrated by Cynthia Harnett

Published London : Methuen, 1951 London : Methuen, 1955

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MELB SPCBC	819 Harnet Cyn/Wpa		LIB USE ONLY

Description 184 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Summary If you had been born 400 years ago, what had your life have been like? Cecily and Nicholas lived then, and this is an exciting of how they discovered and unmasked a plot which would have ruined Nicholas's father. He was a wealthy wool merchant and was living on the Cotswolds in 1493 Cecily lived at Newbury. Nicholas went to school at the Parsonage, but liked better to slip away with Hal, the shepherd's son, to watch the flocks or help at the shearing, and it was in the fields that he got his first clue to what was going on. Lombard moneylenders were behind it, inveigling the merchants into debt, and smuggling shiploads of valuable wool out of the country. A cheery character is Nicholas's Uncle who had been a pirate but had reformed, and dreamed of racing Columbus to the Indies. -- Dust jacket Analysis Cotswolds, England - Historical novel Notes "For children of 11 up" -- Dust jacket Winner of the Carnegie Medal in 1951 Audience For children Notes Winner of the Carnegie Medal as 'the outstanding children's book of 1951' Subject Adventure stories -- Juvenile fiction. Children's stories. Country life -- England -- History -- 15th century -- Juvenile fiction. Country life -- England -- 15th century -- Juvenile fiction. Historical fiction -- Juvenile literature. Merchants -- Great Britain -- History -- Juvenile fiction. Smuggling -- England -- 15th century -- Juvenile fiction. Smuggling -- England -- History -- 15th century -- Juvenile fiction. Wool industry -- Juvenile fiction. Wool -- England -- History -- 15th century -- Juvenile fiction. Wool -- England -- 15th century -- Juvenile fiction. SUBJECT England -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043318 -- 15th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012469 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687 Great Britain -- History -- Henry VII, 1485-1509 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056775 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687 Genre/Form Fiction. Author Harnett, Cynthia, illustrator LC no. 52029364 ISBN 0416536603

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