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Dorothy P. Lathrop's Animals of the Bible first introduced children to the most memorable animals of the Old and New Testaments over sixty years ago, and her extraordinary book was awarded the very first Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished picture book for children. 

Excerpted from the dust jacket of the sixtieth anniversary edition of Animals of the Bible

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Dorothy P. Lathrop

Dorothy P. Lathrop

1891 - 1980
American
Dorothy Pulis Lathrop won the very first Caldecott Medal ever awarded in 1938 for her book Animals of the Bible (1937). She also illustrated the ... See more
Helen Dean Fish

Helen Dean Fish

1889 - 1953
American
Born on Long Island, Helen Dean Fish graduated from Wellesley College in Massachusetts in 1912. She started out as a manuscript reader and then became... See more

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