Andy and the Lion

Name: Andy and the Lion
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Author: James Daugherty
ISBN: 9780525592716

Author: James Daugherty

Narrator: Allyson Johnson

Unabridged: 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Listening Library

Published: 08/21/2018

Categories: Children's Fiction, Fairy Tales, Animal Stories

Synopsis

A Caldecott Honor Book

While walking to school one day, Andy meets a lion and soon makes a new friend. A tale of gratitude and helping out our neighbors, children of all ages will love this retelling of the classic folktale “Androcles and the Lion.”

About The Author

Born in 1889 in North Carolina, James Henry Daugherty studied art in Washington, DC, Philadelphia, and Europe. The author started his career doing advertising drawings in New York City. Soon afterward, he moved on to illustrating magazines, including the New Yorker, and painting large murals. He came into his own writing and illustrating books for young people—creating drawings for more than 90 books before his death in 1974. Among the many books Mr. Daugherty wrote and illustrated are Daniel Boone, a Newbery Medal winner, and Andy and the Lion, a Caldecott Medal runner-up.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Calista on January 28, 2018

An exciting story on the Mouse and the Lion from Aesop's Fables. The whole book is orange, black and white with extreme energy in the drawings. The drawings feel modern with all the action in them. This is a book from the 30s. For some reason James decided to split sentences on one page to the next......more

Goodreads review by Luisa on April 03, 2020

Fun illustrations on every page and the story is quite engaging too. If you have any lion lovers (like my nephew) they'll thoroughly enjoy this delightful tale. Ages: 4 - 8 **Like my reviews? Then you should follow me! Because I have hundreds more just like this one. With each review, I provide a Clea......more

Goodreads review by Laura on April 28, 2016

I fell in love with Andy and the Lion the first time I gazed at the cover. The book was a living thing to me. The story, the illustrations-perfection. I have read this book hundreds of times. It is a classic every child should own.......more

Goodreads review by Crystal on December 31, 2011

1939 Caldecott Honor I loved seeing all of the details in the picture like his dog peeking around the bookshelf in the library and the headline in the newspaper that his dad was reading. Funny how Andy's parents are dressed up in a very fancy way, but he is barefoot and in overhauls.......more

Goodreads review by Abigail on July 08, 2019

Originally published in 1938, and awarded a Caldecott Honor in 1939 - the medal-winner that year was Thomas Handforth's Mei Li - this charming picture-book follows the story of Andy, a lion-obsessed young boy who has an unexpected encounter with his favorite subject. Checking out a book about li......more

Awards

Caldecott Honor Book