Daughetry won another Caldecott Honor in 1957 for Gillespie and the Guards, which he both authored and Illustrated.

Andy and the Lion was re-issued by Viking Press in 1967 in hardcover format.

[2] The story, written by Daugherty, is told in past tense from a second person point of view (a second-person narrative).

But lo and behold, it is his friend the lion, the very same one Andy had helped earlier to take the thorn out of his paw.

The New York Public Library Spencer Collection is home to James Daugherty original drawings, first published in 1938.