Daniel Boone [Library Binding]

Laurie Lawlor (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1988

With empathy, artistic skill, and a journalist's unrelenting passion for truth, Laurie Lawlor has stripped away all the legends surrounding Daniel Boone to expose the fascinating real life and times of this famous frontiersman.

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From School Library Journal

Grade 7-12 The Boone biographical shelf has abounded with romanticized, mythologized, and truncated versions of the life of this American frontier hero known more through film fiction than in fact. Lawlor's book is a sound attempt to right the record. She sets Boone against his strong Quaker backgroundpresenting basically a peaceful, solitary man with a passion for the long wilderness hunt, an uncanny kinship with Indian ways, little tolerance for the drudgery of settlement life, and never any sense of money management. Boone's life undoubtedly overflowed with the drama and adventure of genuinely heroic events. While Lawlor includes them all, she fails to capture that sense of excitement and anticipation to lead readers eagerly from chapter to chapter. Just as her tale becomes engrossing, she makes some over-the-fence observations and loses the immediacy. There is also some trite and repetitious phrasing. Nevertheless, Daniel Boone, well-grounded in historical records, meets this age group's real need for correct information about the colonial frontier. Elliott's The Long Hunter (Readers Digest Pr, 1976) is sprightly written, but intended for more mature readers. May's Daniel Boone and the American West (Bookwright Pr, 1986) is designed for a younger audience. Katharine Bruner, Brown Middle School, Harrison, Tenn.
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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 12 and up
  
• Library Binding
• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Co (November 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0807514624
• ISBN-13: 978-0807514627
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,231,939 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, January 23, 2011

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This review is from: Daniel Boone (Library Binding)

My 10 year old son read this to me. We both really enjoyed it. Daniel Boone's life was difficult, but definitely not boring. Just a couple of the many interesting adventures in this book include the time when he was captured and then adopted by the Indians. Of course, the Indian chief had to have everyone of Daniel's head hairs plucked out to rid him of his white blood. Daniel later escaped to warn the fort of an impending attack by the Indians and French. It appears that God had a hand in saving the fort right when things were most desperate, the fort was on fire and the Indians had been building a trench from the river into the fort, by bringing heavy rain.