What would you see from your front porch if your neighborhood suddenly looked as it did three hundred years ago? When the two girls who live at 107 Maple Street discover an ancient arrowhead and a broken china cup, they begin to wonder.
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From Publishers Weekly
Where the house on Maple Street stands now, there was a forest 300 years ago. This simple summary of how civilization came to one backyard traces back through the years: an Indian child loses an arrowhead, a pioneer child loses a china cup and both turn up in today's garden. The difficult task of giving a fiction-like drive to this long impersonal sweep isn't quite managed in the text. But the book's greatest assets are in the dark-toned but lively panoramas of wilderness becoming settlement, and then an everytown "Maple Street." As a preface to what children will find in the earliest school books on the American past, the book may help waken a historical sense, and Peck's rich colorings and details have strong visual appeal. Ages 5-8.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Grade 1-4 Compressing 300 years of this-is-what-happened incidents at a somewhere-place into the limited text of a picture book takes some doing. The narrator starts with a forest and a spring (hard to draw a spring, so we have a stream), and time travels forward past forest fire, buffalo, Indians, wagon trains, settlers, farmers, down to the contemporary family who live in the house on Maple Street. An arrowhead (for recognition purposes drawn so large as to be a spear point, at least) is a unifying object lost by an Indian boy, found many years later by a little girl, lost again, found by the Maple Street family. The concept is intriguing, but the text lacks clarity. Murky illustrations with wooden figures, full of discrepancies, detract, and the whole will have limited appeal for whatever the targeted reading audience is supposed to be. George Gleason, Department of English, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Mo.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The house on maple street,
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The story starts about a little girl that finds an arrowhead from a indian boy and a china cup that belonged to 2 kids 300 years ago. It takes place 300 years ago with an indian boy that lost his arrow and girl that looses her china cup and then times passes by to the times of the buffalos, indians, farmers,wagons,and settlers until today. Now in the present a little girl that lives in maple street finds the arrowhead and the china cup that were lost 300 years ago in her backyard. Now the maple street family will never know who were the owners of the lost items. Is an instersting story of how history passes in one place.
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The book started was about different people in diffrent time periods kept finding an arrow head in different time periods and the setting of the story always kept changing.
This book was my favorite because of all the descriptions the author wrote about the books setting. Second,I liked how the author used different time periods and history through the story,it made me wonder what other history time he was going to use next.
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A great read,
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This is a great book.I don't realy don't read books ,but when i read this book i have to read it again.Trust me and buy this book.
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