Books Published in May 1963

New Books List: 2 titles

  • It's Like This, Cat

    Emily Cheney Neville

    First published in 1963 and winner of the Newbery Award for excellence in children’s literature the following year, “It’s like this, cat” is the charming and engrossing debut novel by American author Emily Cheney Neville. The story centers on...

  • Middle Eastern Mythology: From the Assyrians to the Hebrews

    Samuel H. Hooke

    Professor Hooke shows how mythology can play a role in ritual, how it can explain the origin of a custom or cult and glorify a hero, tribe or city. All of these functions are relevant to the strange and haunting myths of the Mesopotamians, Egyptians,...