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Andy and the lion a tale of kindness remembered or the power of gratitude

In this retelling of Androcles and the Lion, Andy meets a lion on the way to school and wins his friendship for life by removing a thorn from his paw.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Daugherty, James, 1889-1974
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Puffin Books, 1989.
Series:	Picture puffins.
Subjects:	Lion > Juvenile fiction. Human-animal relationships > Juvenile fiction. Friendship > Juvenile fiction. Kindness > Juvenile fiction. Fables > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:	In this retelling of Androcles and the Lion, Andy meets a lion on the way to school and wins his friendship for life by removing a thorn from his paw.
Item Description:	"A Caldecott honor book"--Page 2 of cover. "Ages 3-8"--Page 4 of cover.
Physical Description:	72 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Audience:	510L Decoding demand: 70 (high) Semantic demand: 78 (high) Syntactic demand: 77 (high) Structure demand: 82 (very high)
Awards:	Caldecott Honor Book, 1939.
ISBN:	9780140502770
Author Notes:	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, includingthe 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.