Andy and the Lion

Andy and the Lion
First edition
AuthorJames Daugherty
IllustratorJames Daugherty
Cover artistJames Daugherty
LanguageEnglish
GenrePicture book
Published1938 by The Viking Press
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
Pages80 pp
AwardsCaldecott Honor Book, 1939
ISBN978-0-6701-2433-6
OCLC357682
813.52
LC ClassPZ8.2.D27

Andy and the Lion, written and illustrated by James Daugherty, is a 1938 picture book published by Puffin Books. Andy and the Lion was a Caldecott Medal Honor Book for 1939 and was Daugherty's first Caldecott Honor Medal of a total of two during his career. Daughetry won another Caldecott Honor in 1957 for Gillespie and the Guards, which he both authored and Illustrated. Andy and the Lion was re-issued by Viking Press in 1967 in hardcover format. It was the fifteenth printing of March 1967. A modern retelling of the Androcles And The Lion common folktale about a young boy who loves to read about lions.