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Animals of the Bible : a picture book / by Dorothy P. Lathrop ; with text selected by Helen Dean Fish from the King James Bible.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Philadelphia : Lippincott, 1965, c1937.Description: vi, 66 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0397315368 :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BS663 .B5 1965
Awards:
  • 1938 Caldecott Award winner
Summary: Dorothy Lathrop's Animals of the Bible won the very first Caldecott Medal when it was originally published in 1937. Now, in honor of the sixtieth anniversary of this prestigious medal and its first recipient, comes this special deluxe edition of Lathrop's award-winning collection of some of the Bible's most extraordinary animals. Thirty richly detailed black-and-white drawings illustrate the favorite stories of the Creation, Noah's Ark, the first Christmas, and many others. A glorious tribute to a great tradition in children's literature, this special anniversary edition will be a keepsake to treasure for years to come.

Originally published: New York : Frederick A. Stokes company, 1937.

Dorothy Lathrop's Animals of the Bible won the very first Caldecott Medal when it was originally published in 1937. Now, in honor of the sixtieth anniversary of this prestigious medal and its first recipient, comes this special deluxe edition of Lathrop's award-winning collection of some of the Bible's most extraordinary animals. Thirty richly detailed black-and-white drawings illustrate the favorite stories of the Creation, Noah's Ark, the first Christmas, and many others. A glorious tribute to a great tradition in children's literature, this special anniversary edition will be a keepsake to treasure for years to come.

1938 Caldecott Award winner

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