# They Were Strong and Good

**Author:** Robert Lawson
**Grade range:** Grades 1–4
**Age range:** 6–9
**First published:** 1940
**Page count:** 68
**Genre:** Biography
**ISBN-13:** `9780670699490`
**ISBN-10:** `0670699497`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/they-were-strong-and-good
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

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." [1][1] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They\_Were\_Strong\_and\_Good

## Themes

- families
- frontier and pioneer life
- family
- racist

## Where this book is assigned

### Caldecott Medal

- **recommended** · 1st grade — [source: Caldecott Medal (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1941 Caldecott Medal winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Medal)
- **recommended** · 2nd grade — [source: Caldecott Medal (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1941 Caldecott Medal winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Medal)
- **recommended** · 3rd grade — [source: Caldecott Medal (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1941 Caldecott Medal winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Medal)
- **recommended** · 4th grade — [source: Caldecott Medal (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1941 Caldecott Medal winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Medal)

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