"Stories about Jesus" by Lawrie Hamilton, illustrated by Joe and Beth Krush, LCA Sunday Church School Series published by Lutheran Church Press, 1966.

Soft cover, staple binding, "Mark" is pencil written inside front cover, 6.3/4" x 8"; unpaginated, c.34 pages, fully illustrated, very good condition.

Joe Krush (1918-2022) and Beth Krush (1918-2009) were an American husband-and-wife team of illustrators who worked primarily on children's books. They may be known best for the U.S. editions of all five Borrowers books by Mary Norton, published by Harcourt 1953–1961 and 1982, a series inaugurated very early in their careers.

Beth and Joe both studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art, where they met on the first day of class.[1] They married during World War II and settled in Wayne, Pennsylvania, south of the city, in 1948.

Joe had a life-long love of aviation. He designed, built and flew award winning model aircraft from 1930. Joe set numerous indoor freeflight records as a member of the Academy of Model Aeronautics and FAI. He helped organize the Valley Forge Signal Seekers (Pennsylvania) one of oldest Radio Control Model Airplane clubs in the USA. Joe remained active in mentoring students involved with the flying events in Science Olympiad as well as his long-standing art classes on illustrating.

Joe worked as a graphic designer for O.S.S. during the war. He was a courtroom sketch artist at the Nuremberg Trials 1945–1946. Beth taught illustration and drawing at Moore College of Art in Philadelphia, for at least 15 years.

Both of the Krushes illustrated books that Harcourt, Brace published in 1947. Joe did "Windwagon Smith and Other Yarns", a collection of short stories by Wilbur Schramm. Beth did "Mr. Doodle" by Sally Scott. Beside "The Borrowers" and its sequels, some famous books illustrated jointly by the Krushes were "Miracles on Maple Hill" (1956) by Virginia Sorensen (who won the Newbery Medal as its writer); "Gone-Away Lake" and its sequel, by Elizabeth Enright (1957, 1961); and "All-of-a-Kind Family Downtown" by Sydney Taylor (1972).

Before collaborating with his wife, Joe Krush illustrated the dustjacket and the interior of "Huon of the Horn", published by Harcourt in 1951, an adaptation of "Huon de Bordeaux" that was Andre Norton's first fantasy novel. A few years later he did the same for "The Ponder Heart" by Eudora Welty, published in 1953/1954.
Beside collaborating with her husband, Beth Krush illustrated "The Shoe Bird" (1964), the only children's book by Eudora Welty.

US: Priority (c.2-4 days) --------- $12.50
Canada: 1st Class (c.2-4 weeks) -- $28.50
World: 1st Class (c.2-5 weeks) --- $42.50