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solely for the entertainment of children. * ’Although it has never been proven, Oliver Goldsmith is believed to have written it, but the man who is famous for its publication is John Newberry, an English publisher and bookseller. He recognized that children had special interests and tried to meet them by publishing a whole series of books especially for them. They were bound in 'flowery gilt", a gay paper, and cheap enough so the ordinary person could buy them. The Newberry Medal, an award given each year to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American children’s literature published the preceding year, bears his name. The first “Goody Two Shoes”
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