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Books in the Religous genre:

God's Little Tumbler (1916)

A play for children, adapted from the Medieval French Legend of the XII century. Appeared in the Delineator Volume 89, page 394, in 1916. December issue, page 8. Read online at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): Louise Collier Willcox
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

Saint Joan of Arc (1919)

This biography of the saint was originally published in Harper’s Magazine in 1904. It comprises the introductory essay and the final chapter of the author’s Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Wilfred J. Jones
Howard Pyle

A Wonderful Night (1919)

A retelling and meditation on the Nativity. Read online at archive.org.

Religion: First Course (1920)

A textbook of religion for Catholic grammar schools that utilizes the Socratic method. This is apparently the student edition. Read online at Hathitrust. The collection of questions is much longer. Read online at archive.org.... View More

The Christ Story for Boys and Girls (1923)

The author reads the New Testament in view of his own life as a Palestinian Christian born in 1869. Adapted from his larger work The Syrian Christ. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Abraham Mitrie Rihbany
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

Lilith (1924)

A story about a journey to the world of the dead.

Author(s): George MacDonald
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

The Illustrated Life of St. Francis (1925)

A brief life of the Saint in watercolor paintings.

The Ten Commandments in the Animal World (1925)

The author finds that animals respect the natural law.

Author(s): Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s): Ernest Thompson Seton

The Conquest of Montezuma’s Empire (1928)

A condensed version of Prescott’s Conquest of Mexico, which was originally published by Andrew Lang in his The True Story Book. It tells the deathless story of how Hernando Cortez and a small band of Spanish adventurers conquered the evil kingd... View More

The Day of Doom (1929)

A religious poem that became a best-selling classic in Puritan New England for a century after it was published in 1662.It describes the Day of Judgment, on which a vengeful God judges and sentences all people.

Author(s): Michael Wigglesworth
Illustrator(s): Wanda Gág

Ammon a Lad of Palestine (1931)

Amnon is a little Jewish boy who lives in Palestine.

Author(s): Marian King
Illustrator(s): Elizabeth Enright

The Donkey of God (1931)

This was the first periodical publication of this story about the noble history of the Donkey. It was published in the December 1931 issue of The St. Nicholas Magazine, Volume LIX, No. 2, page 59. The book publication which included several other sto... View More

Author(s): Louis Untermeyer
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

The Parables of Jesus (1931)

A collection of parables with short explications.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): S. Parkes Cadman
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

A First Bible (1934)

Selections from the King James version.

Author(s): Jean West Maury
Illustrator(s): Helen Sewell

God Our Father (1934)

A book on prayer for elementary school children.

With Harp and Lute (1935)

A collection of poems and songs on Catholic themes.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Blanche Jennings Thompson
Illustrator(s): Kate Seredy

The Gospel of the Redman: An Indian Bible (1936)

A summary of Native American society and belief as it was before Columbus.

Jesus Our Savior (1936)

A religion textbook for elementary school.

Ten Saints (1936)

Brief lives of ten saints, including Francis, Christopher and Patrick.

Author(s): Eleanor Farjeon
Illustrator(s): Helen Sewell

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