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Bond, F. Fraser. "Strictly Personal— Hendrik and the Gate of Heaven."
Saturday Review of Literature (June 15, 1946): 22. This essay, written after van Loon's death, pays tribute to van Loon's illustrations.
Kunitz, Stanley J., and Howard Haycraft, eds. Junior Book of Authors. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935. Includes an autobiographical sketch that discusses the author's personality and philosophy of life.
Peter, Linda Kauffman, and Marilyn Leathers Solt. Newbery and Caldecott Medal and Honor Books:An Annotated Bibliography. Boston: G. K. Hall and Company, 1982. The entry on The Story of Mankind explains the basis for awarding it the first Newbery Medal.
Van Loon, Hendrik Willem. Report to Saint Peter, Upon the Kind of World in Which Hendrik Willem van Loon Spent the First Years of His Life. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1947. This selfillustrated autobiography, published after van Loon's death, describes the author's childhood.
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