- Families, Frontier and pioneer life, Family, Juvenile fiction
They Were Strong and Good is a book by Robert Lawson that won the Caldecott Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1941. It tells the story of Lawson's family: where they came from, how they met, what they did, where they lived. "None of them," Lawson says in the preface, speaking of his ancestors, "were great or famous, but they were strong and good." <sup>[1][1]</sup> [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Were_Strong_and_Good
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Robert Lawson
- First published
- 1940
- Pages
- 68
- Publisher
- The Viking Press, The Viking press, Viking
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780670699490
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Robert Lawson (October 4, 1892 – May 27, 1957) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. He won the Caldecott Medal for his illustrations in They Were Strong and Good in 1941 and the Newbery award for his short story for Rabbit Hill in 1945.
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