1930s Caldecott Winners

1938 
Lathrop, Dorothy. Animals of the Bible: A Picture Book New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1937.
    The text of this book is selected from the King James Bible, and the illustrator studied the plants and animals of the Bible to do her black and white lithographs. Various stories about animals make up the text of the book and are illustrated by the pictures. The animals all have personalities evident in the drawings that help make the animals integral parts of all the stories. The layout of the book matches the layout of the Bible, complete with a division between the Old and New Testament Stories.



1939 
Handforth, Thomas. Mei Li Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1953.  (original copyright 1938.)
    Brush and lithograph pencil pictures illustrate this story about the Chinese New Year when a young girl travels to the city to see the sights of the New Year Fair. In the course of the book, we are told that girls cannot go to the fair, and girls can’t be actors, although the pictures show us that the young girl is really at the fair and that she can act.