The Tesseract:
A Madeleine L'Engle Bibliography

Biblical Plays, Novelettes, Etc.

[Short fiction on Biblical themes, plus retellings of stories from the Bible, listed in order of publication.]

THE JOURNEY WITH JONAH Curious animals accompany and comment upon the journeys and tribulations of stiff-necked prophet Jonah as he tries to defy God's will in this short play for children. Illustrated by Leonard Everett Fisher.

FORMAT	ISBN	PRICE*	PUBLISHER	ISSUED	STATUS	NOTES
hardcover 64? pages	unknown / none		Farrar, Straus & Giroux	1967	out of print
trade paper 64? pages	unknown / none		Farrar, Straus & Giroux	1978	out of print	Noonday Press edition (imprint of F S & G)
trade paper 64? pages	0374438587	$5.95	Farrar, Straus & Giroux	Apr 1991	available	Sunburst edition (imprint of F S & G) 7.62" x 5.16" x .22"

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DANCE IN THE DESERT The toddler Jesus (whose name is not mentioned in the book) has a wondrous effect on the animals he meets while crossing the desert with his family. Illustrated by Symeon Shimin.

FORMAT	ISBN	PRICE*	PUBLISHER	ISSUED	STATUS	NOTES
hardcover 49? pages	unknown/ none		Farrar, Straus & Giroux	1969	out of print	First Edition
hardcover 49? pages	0374316848	$14.95	Farrar, Straus & Giroux	Apr 1988	available	8.57 x 6.37 x .52
trade paperback 49 pages	0374416842	$6.95	Farrar, Straus & Giroux	Apr 1988	available	Sunburst edition (imprint of F S & G) 8.28" x 6.02" x .24"

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LADDER OF ANGELS Short Bible stories, essays and poems accompany children's pictures of scenes from the Bible. Illustrated by "the children of the world."

FORMAT	ISBN	PRICE*	PUBLISHER	ISSUED	STATUS	NOTES
hardcover? 128? pages	unknown		Seabury Press	1979	out of print	First Edition
trade paperback 128 pages	0140055142		Penguin Books	Sep 1980	out of print
trade paperback	0062556193		HarperCollins	Oct 1988	out of print	Reissue Edition

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THE SPHINX AT DAWN: TWO STORIES Two stories about the unrecorded childhood of Jesus (called Yehoshuah here, nicknamed Yos) during his family's self-imposed exile in Egypt. The first one, "Pakko's Camel," concerns Yos's relationship with a disagreeable camel and his even more disagreeable young owner. In the second one, "The Sphinx at Dawn," Yos and the living Sphinx exchange riddles before the boy's return to Israel. Illustrated with wood engravings by Vivian Berger.

FORMAT	ISBN	PRICE*	PUBLISHER	ISSUED	STATUS	NOTES
hardcover 40 pages	0816405271		Seabury Press	Sep 1982	out of print	First edition.
paperback ? pages	0062505025		HarperCollins)	Sep 1989	out of print	First Harper edition.

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THE GLORIOUS IMPOSSIBLE The life of Jesus for younger readers, illustrated with Giotto's 14th century frescoes from the Scrovegni Chapel, Padua.

FORMAT	ISBN	PRICE*	PUBLISHER	ISSUED	STATUS	NOTES
hardcover 64 pages	0671686909	$22.00	Simon & Schuster	1990	available	First Edition

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