City of Gold (book)
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. The British Library Association awarded Dickinson his second Carnegie Medal recognising the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject and highly commended Foreman for the companion Kate Greenaway Medal.
Front cover of 1980 hardcover edition | |
| Author | Peter Dickinson |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Michael Foreman |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Short stories, Bible stories |
| Publisher | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
Publication date | 1980 |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 188 pp (first edition) including bibliography |
| ISBN | 0575028831 |
| OCLC | 472787135 |
| 221.9/505 | |
| LC Class | BS551.2 .D47 1980 |
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."
U.S. editions by Pantheon Books (New York, 1980) and Otter Books (Boston, 1992) retained Foreman's illustrations.