New Hampshire (From Sea to Shining Sea, Second Series) [Library Binding]

Terry Miller Shannon (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up | Series: From Sea to Shining Sea, Second

Describes the geography, plants and animals, history, economy, language, culture and people of the state of New Hampshire

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Terry Miller Shannon is the author of several nonfiction books for children.

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• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Library Binding: 80 pages
• Publisher: Children's Press(CT) (March 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0516224840
• ISBN-13: 978-0516224848
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 9.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,684,848 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars We stop at the Granite State on our trip From Sea to Shining Sea, February 22, 2006

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This review is from: New Hampshire (From Sea to Shining Sea, Second Series) (Library Binding)

One way of killing time when you are a kid and you have a piece of paper and a pen or pencil is to draw a map of the United States. You start with Maine and then you drawn Vermont and New Hampshire over Massachusetts, with Connecticut and Rhode Island tucked underneath before you get to New York. What you probably forget, assuming you even knew it in the first place, is that a bit of New Hampshire actually comes down to the Atlantic in between Maine and Massachusetts. New Hampshire has a port city, Portsmouth no less. If you drive along I-95 from Maine to Massachusetts you will drive through Portsmouth and see that New Hampshire is a seafaring state. Therefore, when you see that the state seal, which appears on the state flag, is dominated by a ship, the "Raleigh," you will not be greatly surprised.

Having started with Maine as our first stop in the From Sea to Shining Sea series, we now visit New Hampshire, with Terry Miller Shannon as our tour guide. The short opening chapter introduces us to the Granite State, the seventh smallest of the state with an abundance of valuable natural resources. Shannon emphasizes the interesting places in the state, from Mount Monadnock (the most-climbed mountain in the world) to Mystery Hill in North Salem (home to some of the oldest buildings in North America). Chapter Two, The Land of New Hampshire covers the basic geography of the state, looking at the three distinctive land regions (Seaboard Lowland, New England Upland, and the White Mountains), the 1,300 lakes and rivers, and the climate (expect snow on Mount Washington during the summer).

Chapter Three, New Hampshire Through History, begins with the nomad wanderers who came to North America 12,000 years ago, continues through the Algonquian tribes in the area, and the Early European Explorers (including John Smith). Shannon focuses on the establishment of the colony and the question of setting New Hampshire's boundaries, and its contributions during the American Revolution. The state's history continues through the Civil War and into this century, making it the largest chapter in the book. Chapter Four Governing New Hampshire, talks about the oldest constitution in the United States and the three branches of government before taking a tour of Concord, the state capital. In these volumes you will find a down top map of the capital, which will show you where the state house stands in relationship to the Museum of New Hampshire History and other buildings of interest. Chapter Five, The People and Places of New Hampshire, looks at what it means to be working in New Hampshire and takes a tour of the various regions to give you an idea of what there is to see there. This is also the chapter where you get the book's recipe, which is the Use-It-Up, Make-It-Do, Franco-American Toast (a thrifty way to use leftover bread, which adds vanilla and cinnamon to the eggs and milk in which you dip the day-old bread).

The book is filled with contemporary color photographs and historical illustrations, although as you might have heard "The Old Man of the Mountain" that is the state symbol and the subject of the final photograph in the book, gave way a few years back (after it was immortalized on the New Hampshire quarter). As you can see from the cover, New Hampshire is the home to some great covered bridges as well. Throughout the book there are informative little sidebars in three categories: Find Out More (e.g., how the town of Rumford was renamed Concord), Who's Who in New Hampshire (e.g., Daniel Webster and Christa McAuliffe), and Extra! Extra! (e.g., there are more than one hundred recording spellings of the name Winnipesaukee).

In the back of the book Shannon provides a New Hampshire Almanac, which lists a lot of fast facts about former capitals and state symbols. This is followed by a Timeline that parallels New Hampshire State History on the top and U.S. History on the bottom (note that Martin Pring landed along New Hampshire's coast in 1603, four years before the first permanent British settlement in Jamestown, Virginia that the history books always emphasize). There is a Gallery of Famous New Hampshirites from Ken Burns to David Souter (with Robert Frost and John Irving in between), and a Glossary of terms from "ancient" to "textile." If you need to look For More Information about New Hampshire for a school report, Shannon provides a trio of useful Web Sites and three rather eclectic Books (e.g., "Yum, Yum!: The New Hampshire Kid's Cookbook"), along with a couple of Addresses you can actually write to for information.

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4.0 out of 5 stars What do you know about New Hampshire?, June 20, 2011

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This review is from: New Hampshire (America the Beautiful, Third) (Library Binding)

I bought this book for my nephew who was studying states in his 4th grade class. It is full of information displayed in outlines, charts, photos, maps, and descriptions. Perfect for him.