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Title: Sam the Minuteman by Nathaniel Benchley, Arnold Lobel ISBN: 0-06-444107-5 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 20 February, 1987 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Historical Fiction
Comment: My kids loved this book. This book can be read by any reading level, because of its historical perspective. It appears to most adequately suit 1st graders. With my older children I used it as a tool, along with George the Drummer Boy, to teach perspective in writing and history. These two books in combination do an excellent job. Sam the Minuteman is told from the perspective of an American boy. George the Drummer Boy is told from a British boy's perspective. This book has 61 pages, about 1/4 of the pages are full page illustrations. Both books portray the same event in history - the beginning of the American Revolution.
Rating: 4
Summary: Wonderful history for children
Comment: I have a 5-year-old son named Sam. I read him this book for many days--day after day after day. He even slept with the book. So obviously, I believe this is a good book for kids! I had to give it a high rating--he never slept with any other book. The book, I believe, is rated at about a 3rd grade reading level. It involves guns and redcoats and things that interest young folks.
Anyway, the book is about the beginning of the Revolutionary War. Sam's father takes him along when the British come to Lexington. At the battle, one of Sam's friends gets shot in the leg, so children know that war is not all fun and games, and carrying a gun involves responsibility. The author also says things like the British soldiers burned some houses, but "their heart wasn't in it." This leads to good questions about why that was so. The author follows the British as they make a run for it as the "farmers" shoot at them the whole way back. And when Sam gets home, his worry is about his friend who was shot. Nifty drawings, good length, history--this is a very good book for the age group.
Rating: 4
Summary: early introduction to American history
Comment: This early reader features Sam, a boy who joins his father as a Minuteman, and takes place in Concord and Lexington on the day the American Revolution begins. At 62 pages, with simple vocabulary, this book does a nice job of capturing the uncertainty and excitement of these events for a young person, and would be a good selection for a young reader interested in history. The companion volume by the same author, 'George the Drummer Boy', tells the story of a boy on the side of the loyalists on the same day. Simple but nice illustrations.
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Title: George the Drummer Boy by Nathaniel Benchley, Don Bolognese ISBN: 0064441067 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 20 February, 1987 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: The Long Way to a New Land by Joan Sandin ISBN: 0064441008 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 23 May, 1986 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: The Long Way Westward (I Can Read) by Joan Sandin ISBN: 0064441989 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: April, 1992 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: Wagon Wheels (I Can Read Books) by Barbara Brenner, Don Bolognese ISBN: 0064440524 Publisher: Scott Foresman (Pearson K-12) Pub. Date: May, 1993 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: Chang's Paper Pony (I Can Read) by Eleanor Coerr, Deborah Kogan Ray ISBN: 0064441636 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: March, 1993 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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