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Biblical Genre
Books in the Biblical genre:
A Christmas Manger (1942)
A punch-out-and-play book of the nativity.
Jesus’ Story: A Little New Testament (1942)
Bible text from the King James Version (KJV)
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
A Treasury of Best-Loved Hymns: With Their Stories (1942)
A selection of thirty-three hymns, from The Old Rugged Cross to Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott.
Author(s):
Daniel Alfred Poling
Various
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Oldest Story: The Story of the Bible for Young People (1943)
Familiar bible stories for children.
Author(s):
Blanche Jennings Thompson
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
The Story of Jesus: A Little New Testament (1944)
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Little Lost Lamb (1945)
The little black lamb wanders off from the flock, but the shepherd and his dog go back up the mountain to find him.
Author(s):
Golden MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Leonard Weisgard
Golden Bible: From the King James Version of the Old Testament (1946)
Familiar stories from the Old Testament.
Author(s):
The Bible
Jane Werner Watson
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Once There Was a Little Boy (1946)
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
The Butterfly that Stamped (1947)
The butterfly has a quarrel with his wife and is overheard by King Solomon.
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Many Mansions: Selections from the Bible (1947)
Short passages from the Bible.
Author(s):
Jessie Orton Jones
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
The Golden Christmas Manger (1948)
A creche with cut out figures and a book containing the Christmas story.
Author(s):
Helen Sewell
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Mr. and Mrs. Noah (1948)
The ark, the animals and the flood.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Rainbow Book of Bible Stories: The Old Testament and the New Testament (1948)
Short versions of familiar Bible stories.
Author(s):
May Lamberton Becker
The Bible
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
The Reward of Faith and Other Stories (1950)
A collection of stories based on the Bible and lives of the saints. Three were specially written for this anthology.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
Nora S. Unwin
And it Came to Pass: Stories from the Bible (1951)
These stories from the Bible have been arranged to be read as literature.
Author(s):
W. G. Bebbington
The Bible
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Early Old Testament Stories (1954)
Retells, for young readers, the stories of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, and Moses.
Author(s):
Ethel L. Smither
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Story of Jesus for Young People (1955)
Author(s):
Walter Russell Bowie
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
The Three Kings of Saba (1955)
The story of the three wise men who traveled to Bethlehem.
Author(s):
Alf Evers
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell