The Horn Book Guide

RELIGION

Field, Rachel

Prayer for a Child

32 pp. | Little Simon | January, 2013 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4424-7659-2 $12.99
New ed. (1944, Macmillan)

(3) PS Illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones. Winner of the 1945 Caldecott Medal, Prayer for a Child--here in a satisfactorily produced oversize board-book edition--is somewhat dated by a few illustrations (hairstyles, stereotyped ethnic costumes), but thanks to the simplicity and lack of sentimentality in both prayer and accompanying art, it still works.

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 1945