Duffy and the Devil

Duffy and the Devil
	Front cover with Caldecott Medal seal
Author	Harve Zemach
Illustrator	Margot Zemach
Genre	Children's book
Publisher	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date	1973
Publication place	United States
ISBN	0-374-31887-5
OCLC	724018
Dewey Decimal	398.2/09423/7
LC Class	PZ8.1.Z38 Du3

Last updated October 28, 2025

Duffy and the Devil (1973) is a book written by Margot Zemach and her husband Harvey Fichstrom (as Harve Zemach). In 1974, it was a finalist for the National Book Award, Children's Literature ^[2] and winner of the Caldecott Medal for illustration.^[3]

The U.S. Library of Congress credits "a Cornish tale retold by Harve Zemach" and a British edition was published by Kestrel Books in 1974, which catalogs with the full title Duffy and the Devil: a Cornish tale retold.^[1]

References

1 2 "Duffy and the Devil" ^{[ permanent dead link ]}. LC Online Catalog. Library of Congress (lccn.loc.gov).
"Duffy and the Devil: a Cornish tale retold" ^{[ permanent dead link ]} (UK edition). LC Online Catalog. Retrieved 2015-12-13.
↑ "National Book Awards – 1974". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-02-08.
↑ "Caldecott Medal Winners, 1938 – Present". Association for Library Service to Children. American Library Association (ala.org/alsc). Retrieved 2009-05-27.

Awards
Preceded by The Funny Little Woman	Caldecott Medal recipient 1974	Succeeded by Arrow to the Sun

External links

‘Duffy and the Devil’ folktale collected by Robert Hunt (1903)

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[LCC-1] 1 2 "Duffy and the Devil" ^{[ permanent dead link ]}. LC Online Catalog. Library of Congress (lccn.loc.gov).
"Duffy and the Devil: a Cornish tale retold" ^{[ permanent dead link ]} (UK edition). LC Online Catalog. Retrieved 2015-12-13.

[nba1974-2] "National Book Awards – 1974". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-02-08.

[ALA-3] "Caldecott Medal Winners, 1938 – Present". Association for Library Service to Children. American Library Association (ala.org/alsc). Retrieved 2009-05-27.

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