Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express (I Can Read Book 3) by Eleanor Coerr
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Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express (I Can Read Book 3) by Eleanor Coerr
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It also raises some hotly debated issues about fact and fiction in children's literature. This is fiction, so all the rules about strict documentation don't apply. Right? Well then, why that word "True" in the series title? How "true" is this story? Goodman's entertaining, informal afterword addresses these questions. It seems quoting sources doesn't always work; a book written about Robert soon after the war bragged so much that Goodman decided she didn't always believe it. She "dreamed up" a lot, especially about Robert's thoughts and conversations; but she also says that, even though her hero was a real boy whose exploits were written up at the time, "history is really a combination of what happened and what people think happened." That's a statement to make us think. First the exciting story, then the laidback commentary: together they make this a good springboard, even for older readers, for talking about history, story, truth, and the meaning of war. Hazel Rochman
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