{"id":5640,"date":"2026-06-27T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5640"},"modified":"2025-12-13T20:50:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T01:50:26","slug":"first-newbery-medal-1922","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5640","title":{"rendered":"First Newbery Medal &#8211; 1922"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newbery Medal was awarded for the first time to Hendrik Van Loon for <em>The Story of Mankind<\/em> in 1922.<\/strong> Children can read <em>The Story of Mankind<\/em> at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>. The Newbery Awards are presented to the American writers of the best children\u2019s books. Children can learn more about John Newbery and the Newbery Awards at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/awardsgrants\/bookmedia\/newberymedal\/newberymedal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newbery<\/a>. You could also read the portion dedicated to John Newbery and the Newbery Medal in the <em>Children\u2019s Book Award Handbook<\/em> by Diana F. Marks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newbery Medal was awarded for the first time to Hendrik Van Loon for The Story of Mankind in 1922. Children can read The Story of Mankind at: Project Gutenberg. The Newbery Awards are presented to the American writers of the best children\u2019s books. Children can learn more about John Newbery and the Newbery Awards at: <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5640' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5289,461,5666,460,462],"class_list":["post-5640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5289","tag-hendrik-van-loon","tag-june-27","tag-newbery-medal","tag-the-story-of-mankind","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5640"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24684,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640\/revisions\/24684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}