Ramona and Her Father
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Ramona and Her Father is the fourth book in Beverly Cleary's popular Ramona Quimby series. In this humorous children's novel, Mr. Quimby loses his job and Ramona thinks up ways to earn money and help
First edition cover with the Newbery Honor
Newbery Medal
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The John Newbery Medal, frequently shortened to the Newbery, is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author
Frederic G. Melcher first proposed the idea for the Newbery Award.
John Newbery, called "The Father of Children's Literature", was an English publisher of books who first made children's literature a sustainable and profitable part of the literary market.
Hendrik Willem van Loon won the first Newbery Medal in 1922 for his book The Story of Mankind.