The Picture the Past series looks at the many kinds of communities in America's past. Each book describes what made each community different and what children and adults did each day. Life in a Colonial Town In this book, visit one of the first towns in America. See how craftspeople made clothes, tools, and wagon wheels. Visit a house to find out how families found and made their food. Then use a recipe to cook a real American treatapple pancakes!
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Grade 1-3-These well-organized volumes introduce their subjects in an accessible manner. Each two-page chapter contains a brief text and a mixture of reproductions of period drawings and paintings, as well as archival and modern reenactment photographs. The first two titles cover how colonies and cities got started and grew, describing communication, houses, occupations, childhood, education, clothing, and food. Readers will be able to contrast today's cities and way of life with the very different living conditions in the past with the help of the copious illustrations. The third title provides an overview of plantation life, alternately describing the lives of the planters and slaves. In all three titles, insert boxes highlight information and often serve as captions for the illustrations. Challenging or unfamiliar words are highlighted and explained in the glossaries. Each book also contains a recipe from the period.
Melanie S. Wible, Kanoheda Elementary, Law- renceville, GA
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.
Melanie S. Wible, Kanoheda Elementary, Law- renceville, GA
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.
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What a wonderful book! Life in a Colinial Town (Picture the Past) takes young readers on a journey through life in the American colonies and beautifully illustrated it with artwork of the period and photographs of historical interpreters in authentic settings.
Young historians will come away with a good understanding of the crafts of the day, houses and furniture, a day in the life of a slave and children at school work and play. There is wonderful information and pictures of clothing wigs, food, etc. Bonus: The book even gives a recipe for apple pancakes authentic to the period! Score!
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