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Genre/Form: | Juvenile works Juvenile literature |
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Material Type: | Juvenile audience |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Hendrik Willem Van Loon |
ISBN: | 1596051787 9781596051782 9781596059566 1596059567 |
OCLC Number: | 65978735 |
Notes: | Originally published: New York : Boni and Liveright, 1921. |
Awards: | Newbery Medal |
Description: | xxviii, 489 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
Series Title: | Cosimo classics history. |
Responsibility: | Hendrik Van Loon. |
Abstract:
The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon was the first book to be awarded the Newbery Medal for an outstanding contribution to children's literature. Written for his grandchildren, The Story of Mankind intermingles personal anecdotes with the history of Western civilization, covering the development of writing, art, and architecture, the rise of major religions, and the formation of the modern nation-state. Van Loon explains that he selected what to and what not to include by asking the question: Did the person or event in question perform an act without which the entire history of civilization would have been different? Well written, informative, and vastly entreating.
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