City of Gold (book)

City of Gold
Front cover of 1980 hardcover edition
AuthorPeter Dickinson
IllustratorMichael Foreman
LanguageEnglish
GenreShort stories, Bible stories
PublisherVictor Gollancz Ltd
Publication date
1980
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages188 pp (first edition)
including bibliography[1]
ISBN0575028831
OCLC472787135
221.9/505[1]
LC ClassBS551.2 .D47 1980[1]

City of Gold and other stories from the Old Testament is a collection of 33 Old Testament Bible stories retold for children by Peter Dickinson, illustrated by Michael Foreman, and published by Victor Gollancz Ltd in 1980.[2] The British Library Association awarded Dickinson his second Carnegie Medal recognising the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject[2][a] and highly commended Foreman for the companion Kate Greenaway Medal.[3][b]

City of Gold is a "radical" retelling of Bible stories, according to the retrospective online Carnegie Medal citation. "It is set in a time before the Bible was written down, when its stories were handed from generation to generation by the spoken word."[2]

U.S. editions by Pantheon Books (New York, 1980)[1] and Otter Books (Boston, 1992) retained Foreman's illustrations.

  1. ^ a b c d "City of gold and other stories from the Old Testament" (first U.S. edition). Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2012-07-26.
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