Newbery Award & Honor Winners: 1922 Winner & Honorees

This classic history, first published in 1921 and winner of the first Newbery Medal, was illustrated in pen and ink by the author. Chronicles the history of man and civilization from primitive beginnings to the current day.

Describes the cycle of myths about the Argonauts and the quest for the golden Fleece, as well as the tales of creation of Heaven and Earth, the labors of Hercules, Theseus and the Minotaur, etc.

Cedric, son of the thirteenth-century forester, saves Sir Richard's son and is made his squire. Taught to read and fight, Cedric becomes the best crossbowman in England, and, at the Battle of the Eagles, he is knighted.

A brother and sister visit their older cousin in New England. Their cousin was once jovial but is now mysteriously irritable and preoccupied. A chance meeting with the beeman leads to their hearing stories about their own family's history. As they listen, the two children start to understand the cause of their cousin's anxiety.