Young Walter Scott

Young Walter Scott is a fictionalized biography of the early life of Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray, set in Edinburgh in the late eighteenth century.

[1] Illustrated by Kate Seredy, it was first published in 1935 and was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1936.

[2] An early criticism noted that "Young or old, Walter Scott would have had some difficulty in recognizing himself or his environment in this softly tinted artificial light".

[3] Kirkus Reviews described it as "A vigorous picture of boyhood against odds..."[4]

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