The Wool-Pack
Front cover of the first edition | |
| Author | Cynthia Harnett |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Cynthia Harnett |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's historical novel |
| Publisher | Methuen |
Publication date | 25 October 1951 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 184 pp (first edition) |
| OCLC | 621582 |
| LC Class | PZ7.H228 Wo PZ7.H228 Ni |
The Wool-Pack is a children's historical novel written and illustrated by Cynthia Harnett, published by Methuen in 1951. It was the first published of four children's novels that Harnett set in 15th-century England. She won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising it as the year's best children's book by a British subject.
G. P. Putnam's Sons published the first U.S. edition in 1953, entitled Nicholas and the Wool-Pack: an adventure story of the Middle Ages, an inaccurate title as it is based in the time of Henry Tudor. In 1984 it was reissued under yet another title, The Merchant's Mark (Minneapolis: Lerner). Both American editions retained Harnett's illustrations.
A television miniseries based on the story was broadcast by the BBC in 1970.