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In this picture book, 16-year-old Sybil Ludington races along the dark forest road on her horse, Star, proving herself a brave patriot. Daughter of a colonel in the Revolutionary fight, Sybil is inspired by her father's courage to alert his 400 troops that the British are burning Danbury, New York. On hearing Sybil's alarm, the men muster at Ludington's and are able to help push back the Redcoats. Intensifying the innate drama of the ride are an episode of a deer darting across the messengers' path, and a close call with a Loyalist who would have foiled Sybil's plan. Winnick uses muted earthy colors in her artwork, applying them with a gouache-like texture that evokes the feeling of the flashing white raindrops cutting through the black night and pelting down on Sybil and Star. Details in the text and illustrations, and an archival map of Sybil's route, reinforce this story of a little-known historic episode, which will make a good companion to Katherine Kirkpatrick's Redcoats and Petticoats. Ellen Mandel
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This young version of the story of Sybil Ludingtons ride fails to capture the excitement of the actual event. Almost two years to the day after Paul Revere and the alarm riders rode the night to call the Minutemen to arms, the 16-year-old daughter of a militia officer, rode a like mission on her horse, Star, through southern Dutchess County, New York, to muster the colonials, this time as the British were busy burning Danbury, Connecticut. It was a wild ride, through the stormy dark, all alone for mile after rural mile. Unfortunately, Winnick's recreation of the event falls short from every angle. The nave artwork is too sentimental to evoke the drama of the ride, even if it calls up an 18th-century atmosphere. The wealth of local and circumstantial detail she provides is overmuch to the point of ungainliness, getting in the way of, rather than conjuring, a distinctive local aura. And there is simply no way to generate much excitement when the best you can deliver is ``On and on they went'' and ``We can do it, Star.'' Limping. (Picture book. 6-8) -- Copyright ©2000, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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In this picture book, 16-year-old Sybil Ludington races along the dark forest road on her horse, Star, proving herself a brave patriot. Daughter of a colonel in the Revolutionary fight, Sybil is inspired by her father's courage to alert his 400 troops that the British are burning Danbury, New York. On hearing Sybil's alarm, the men muster at Ludington's and are able to help push back the Redcoats. Intensifying the innate drama of the ride are an episode of a deer darting across the messengers' path, and a close call with a Loyalist who would have foiled Sybil's plan. Winnick uses muted earthy colors in her artwork, applying them with a gouache-like texture that evokes the feeling of the flashing white raindrops cutting through the black night and pelting down on Sybil and Star. Details in the text and illustrations, and an archival map of Sybil's route, reinforce this story of a little-known historic episode, which will make a good companion to Katherine Kirkpatrick's Redcoats and Petticoats. Ellen Mandel
From Kirkus Reviews
This young version of the story of Sybil Ludingtons ride fails to capture the excitement of the actual event. Almost two years to the day after Paul Revere and the alarm riders rode the night to call the Minutemen to arms, the 16-year-old daughter of a militia officer, rode a like mission on her horse, Star, through southern Dutchess County, New York, to muster the colonials, this time as the British were busy burning Danbury, Connecticut. It was a wild ride, through the stormy dark, all alone for mile after rural mile. Unfortunately, Winnick's recreation of the event falls short from every angle. The nave artwork is too sentimental to evoke the drama of the ride, even if it calls up an 18th-century atmosphere. The wealth of local and circumstantial detail she provides is overmuch to the point of ungainliness, getting in the way of, rather than conjuring, a distinctive local aura. And there is simply no way to generate much excitement when the best you can deliver is ``On and on they went'' and ``We can do it, Star.'' Limping. (Picture book. 6-8) -- Copyright ©2000, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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