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Books in the Biblical genre:

Sunday Employment, Sunday Enjoyment for the Young and Good (1859)

A work intended to make the search after holiness agreeable, rather than tedious. The title page is by Richard Doyle. Read online at Google.... View More

Author(s): Mrs. Upcher Cousens
Illustrator(s): Richard Doyle

The Noah’s Ark Alphabet (1872)

An alphabet of animals who entered the Ark. Read for free online at the University of Florida.

Author(s): Anonymous
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane

Sunday Reading for the Young (1900)

This was a periodical with religious themed content. It seems to have been a monthly or fortnightly and annual volumes were published.

Author(s): Unknown
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford
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Stories from the Life of Christ (1905)

Twenty-nine stories from the New Testament. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): The Bible
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

The Story of Noah’s Ark (1905)

How God told Noah to build an ark before He sent the flood. Read for free online at Project Gutenberg.

Author(s): E. Boyd Smith
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

Eve’s Diary: Translated from the Original MS (1906)

This fictional account of life in the Garden of Eden and afterward is not as cynical as Twain’s other writings on the subject. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Lester Ralph

The Natural History of the Ten Commandments (1907)

The author finds that the animal kingdom respects the natural law. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s): None

A Wonderful Night (1919)

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

The Lost Gospel (1925)

What follows on the discovery of an apocryphal gospel.

Author(s): Arthur Train
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

The Man Nobody Knows (1925)

This story presents an unconventional interpretation of the New Testament in which Jesus is portrayed as a social and virile man with strong qualities of leadership. Read online at archive.org... View More

Author(s): Bruce Barton
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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 Kingdom and the Power and the Glory (1929)

Selections from the King James Version of the Old Testament.

Author(s): The Bible
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

The Ark of Father Noah and Mother Noah (1930)

The story of the flood from Genesis.

The Christ Child (1931)

The story of the Nativity from the Gospels of Matthew and Luke.

Author(s): The Bible
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

Words to the Wise: A Book of Proverbs for Boys and Girls (1932)

An illustrated selection of proverbs.

Author(s): The Bible
Illustrator(s): Helen Sewell

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

Jesus Our Savior (1936)

A religion textbook for elementary school.

Animals of the Bible a Picture Book (1937)

Selections from the Bible with illustrations of the animals described.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Helen Dean Fish
Illustrator(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop

Caldecott Medal
Caldecott Medal - 1938

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