CHILDREN'S BOOKS FOR THE BICENTENNIAL
Graves, Elizabeth Minot
CHILDREN'S BOOKS FOR THE BICENTENNIAL ELBEABETH MINOT CRAVES "Come join in hand brave Americans all, And rouse your bold hearts in fair Liberty's call." Children's books celebrating the...
...It is lively and well-researched...
...Monroe-with a big difference...
...Parents...
...Here is rich, party-loving John Hancock, longing for popularity, but also a dedicated, generous public servant...
...5.50...
...Among the more traditional biographies are: Black Heroes of the Revolution by Burke Davis, with period prints and paintings (Harcourt...
...I only wish Ms...
...6.95...
...with pictures by Trina Schart Hyman, and -Whafs the Big Idea, Ben Franklin...
...Generous Strangers by Pearle H. Schultz (Vanguard...
...and Ben Franklin, "America's best arguer," brimming with big ideas, mischief-and common sense...
...Monjo, and grace, fully illustrated by Richard Cuffari, gives a rare pacifist view of the Revo-lution and the effect of the war on the Nantucket Quakers, in particular & seafaring boy...
...Wkh honesty and verve, new author Snow describes the confusion,' turn-tail running from battle, the hunger and suffering that the amateur soldiers experienced and ther humor that saw them through...
...The novel's young hero comes to realize that freedom-which his country wins from England-is the most important thing in his personal life as well, and that Joe Mountain, the family slave and his companion, should have his freedom too...
...Freelon, the witty, fun-loving, anti-hero who signed up for the army during a night of drinking (to his regret), would never have described the fighting as glorious...
...six European military leaders who came to aid General Washington-their motives, frustrations and triumphs...
...9-12...
...An enthusiastic and careful historian, Mrs...
...Now in The Blood* Country (4 Winds...
...and Patriots in Petticoats by Patricia E. Syng (Dodd...
...Spies and Traitors by Joseph and EUen Raskin (Lothrop...
...Fortunately some of the (few, new historical novels have hardhitting realism or a fresh approach...
...9-13...
...8-11...
...Interestingly enough, Freelon Star-bird by Richard F. Snow (Houghton...
...Demeter's Daughters covers more years, and more cultural activities, and has many quotes...
...12-16...
...Will You Sign Here, John Hancock...
...their new, moving and polished novel, they explore again the tragedy of warfare as Americans fight Americans in a little-known- Revolutionary action in frontier Pennsylvania...
...perhaps because tragically little history is taught in schools...
...Each $6.95...
...Coward...
...The Women Who Founded America 1587-1787 by Selma R. Williams, (Prints & Paintings...
...9.95...
...9-14...
...It's hard as hell to spend your life never belonging to yourself," Ben decides...
...6.95...
...CHILDREN'S BOOKS FOR THE BICENTENNIAL ELBEABETH MINOT CRAVES "Come join in hand brave Americans all, And rouse your bold hearts in fair Liberty's call...
...Fritz has recently found her special niche with her warm, witty, and colloquial portraits...
...11-15...
...covets much of the same military action as The Glorious Hour of Lt...
...5.95...
...Two of the, Bicentennial best are by Jean, Fritz...
...follows James Monroe's military career from the time he joined the army until he was wounded at Trenton...
...The two groups squabble Over land- one aided by the British and the Indians...
...It is not a personal biography but rather a scholarly documentary of the discouraging early months of the Revolution until Washington's important Trenton victory, when the tide of war turned...
...7.95...
...also illustrated by Cuffari, is refreshing in that it is a girl who takes a secret military message through enemy territory...
...Children's books celebrating the birth of the United States have flourished this Bicentennial year...
...Good biographies help make the past viyid and contemporary...
...11-15...
...exciting adventures and escapes which read almost like fiction...
...Dowbleday...
...We are too apt to forget that, just as with the Vietnam War, many Americans disapproved the Revolution...
...5.95...
...with, pictures by Margot Tomes...
...a needed volume that pays tribute to the many overlooked blacks who helped win independence-for others...
...Toliver's Secret by Esther Wood Brady (Crowa...
...The better Bicentennial books, it can be hoped, may help boys and girls of today realize that the ideals of the Revolution-justice, freedom, equality -have yet to be fully won by all and work for their victory...
...5.95...
...Atheneum...
...light, easy-reading vignettes of female partisans-with notes on memorials that families can visit...
...5.95...
...Zenas and the Shaving Mill by master-storyteller F.N...
...Children and adults will also delight in Steven Kellogg'S gay, impish paintings for a rousing, little-known version of Yankee Doodle by Edward Bangs, a , Harvard student and Minuteman...
...6.95...
...recreates events leading to the Massacre and the subsequent trial, so important in proving the colonies' dedication to justice...
...and Demeter's Daughters...
...6.95...
...The Story of the Boston Mas-sacre by Mary Kay Phelan and illustrated by Allan Eitzen (Crowell...
...6.95...
...Historical fiction has been sadly,in decline in recent years (why...
...In their recent, distinguished My Brother Sam Is Deed, James and Christopher Collier wrote about a family torn apart by Tory-patriot sentiments...
...5.75...
...The Liberty Song" quoted above appears in A handsome, large liberty Book, a collection of poems, sayings by famous patriots, and government declarations lovingly gathered and illustrated by Leonard Everett Fisher io red, white, and blue, making a bicentennial souvenir for the entire family...
...Two unusual and distinguished books for teenagers-real contributions-are: Founding Mothers: Women of Amer ica in the Revolutionary Era by Linda Grant de Pauw, a professor at George Washington University (Houghton...
...10-14...
...9-14...
...7-10...
...4.95...
...a Massachusetts writer specializing in feminist history...
...7-10...
...Phelan had not felt impelled to use the present tense...
...Fritz's homey detail and narrative skill make bom real men, not statues on pedestals...
...Original, invaluable, fresh, both are the result of a lot of dedicated digging into little-known historical sources, and give a hew look at Colo-nial America and the important roles women played in the economy and in developing and embodying the ideals of the Revolution...
...Coward...
...Monroe by Richard Hanser (Atheneum...
...Both stress the greater, freedom women had before the Revo-, lution than after when prosperity led to "the lady," though the Revolutionary ideals eventually helped pave the way for both blacks' and women's rights and recognition...
...The Glorious Hour of Lt...
...Founding Mothers is filled with forceful, biting vignettes of ordinary, hard-working 18th century women and has a particularly eye-opening chapter on the many paid women who served with Washington's army...
Vol. 103 • November 1976 • No. 24
