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From: GWoelfle at aol.com <GWoelfle>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 14:07:27 EDT
I picked up heaps of new books at ALA and Book Expo and found that the American Revolution is alive and well -- and in very good hands these days. Nonfiction and fiction authors are resuscitating the old facts and figures in novel ways. (Not all the books listed below are new, but they are all good ones.)
? Don Brown's LET IT BEGIN HERE is full of personal stories of the Battle of Lexington and Concord.
? What Brown does for one event, Steve Sheinkin does for the whole period in KING GEORGE: WHAT WAS HIS PROBLEM? He describes dozens of events, laws, battles, etc. and gives us tales and quotes of famous and not-famous people who took part.
? Thomas Flemings's EVERYBODY'S REVOLUTION describes the many ethnic groups involved, allowing children of more recent immigrants to relate.
? Laurie Halse Anderson's INDEPENDENT DAMES focuses on unconventional women patriots.
? The Brown Paper School USKids History BOOK OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION includes essays, fictional pieces, games, recipes, and crafts.
? GEORGE VS GEORGE: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AS SEEN FROM BOTH SIDES by Rosalyn Schanzer, roots for the Americans, but gives us a glimpse of the British perspective.
? Peggy Thomas's FARMER GEORGE PLANTS A NATION reveals another side of "our" George. Who knew he was an inventor, barn designer, and proto-environmentalist with his compost experiments and ?make and buy local? policy?
? Thomas B. Allen's GEORGE WASHINGTON, SPYMASTER: HOW THE AMERICAN OUTSPIED THE BRITISH AND WON THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR tells of spies, counterspies, covers, moles, and cut-outs, with codes and ciphers, plots and heroes that don't make ordinary history books.
? As for fiction, Kay Winters' COLONIAL VOICES: HEAR THEM SPEAK sets us in Boston on December 16, 1773 from dawn to dusk, to witness the historic Boston Tea Party through many points of view. ? Laurie Halse Anderson's CHAINS, tells of a slave girl's adventures in British-held New York .
? M.T. Anderson's second volume of THE ASTONISHING LIFE OF OCTAVIAN NOTHING transports a Massachusetts slave to the British Army in Virginia.
? And I can't resist touting a terrific picaresque adult novel: JOHNNY ONE-EYE: A TALE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, by Jerome Charyn. It will change your view of George Washington forever.
Gretchen Woelfle
JEANNETTE RANKIN: POLITICAL PIONEER (Calkins Creek/Boyds Mills) www.gretchenwoelfle.com
************** Psssst...Have you heard the news? There's a new fashion blog, plus the latest fall trends and hair styles at StyleList.com.
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Received on Mon 08 Sep 2008 01:07:27 PM CDT
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 14:07:27 EDT
I picked up heaps of new books at ALA and Book Expo and found that the American Revolution is alive and well -- and in very good hands these days. Nonfiction and fiction authors are resuscitating the old facts and figures in novel ways. (Not all the books listed below are new, but they are all good ones.)
? Don Brown's LET IT BEGIN HERE is full of personal stories of the Battle of Lexington and Concord.
? What Brown does for one event, Steve Sheinkin does for the whole period in KING GEORGE: WHAT WAS HIS PROBLEM? He describes dozens of events, laws, battles, etc. and gives us tales and quotes of famous and not-famous people who took part.
? Thomas Flemings's EVERYBODY'S REVOLUTION describes the many ethnic groups involved, allowing children of more recent immigrants to relate.
? Laurie Halse Anderson's INDEPENDENT DAMES focuses on unconventional women patriots.
? The Brown Paper School USKids History BOOK OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION includes essays, fictional pieces, games, recipes, and crafts.
? GEORGE VS GEORGE: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AS SEEN FROM BOTH SIDES by Rosalyn Schanzer, roots for the Americans, but gives us a glimpse of the British perspective.
? Peggy Thomas's FARMER GEORGE PLANTS A NATION reveals another side of "our" George. Who knew he was an inventor, barn designer, and proto-environmentalist with his compost experiments and ?make and buy local? policy?
? Thomas B. Allen's GEORGE WASHINGTON, SPYMASTER: HOW THE AMERICAN OUTSPIED THE BRITISH AND WON THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR tells of spies, counterspies, covers, moles, and cut-outs, with codes and ciphers, plots and heroes that don't make ordinary history books.
? As for fiction, Kay Winters' COLONIAL VOICES: HEAR THEM SPEAK sets us in Boston on December 16, 1773 from dawn to dusk, to witness the historic Boston Tea Party through many points of view. ? Laurie Halse Anderson's CHAINS, tells of a slave girl's adventures in British-held New York .
? M.T. Anderson's second volume of THE ASTONISHING LIFE OF OCTAVIAN NOTHING transports a Massachusetts slave to the British Army in Virginia.
? And I can't resist touting a terrific picaresque adult novel: JOHNNY ONE-EYE: A TALE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, by Jerome Charyn. It will change your view of George Washington forever.
Gretchen Woelfle
JEANNETTE RANKIN: POLITICAL PIONEER (Calkins Creek/Boyds Mills) www.gretchenwoelfle.com
************** Psssst...Have you heard the news? There's a new fashion blog, plus the latest fall trends and hair styles at StyleList.com.
(http://www.stylelist.com/trends?ncid=aolsty00050000000014)
Received on Mon 08 Sep 2008 01:07:27 PM CDT
