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Roaring Brook Press (2008), 64 pages
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Provides an informative look at the events that lead up to this important day in history when American heroes took a stand against an oppressive monarch in order gain the freedom they deserved in the new land they worked hard to build.
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LibraryThing member shelf-employed
A simple re-telling of the events that occurred on the first day of the American Revolution. It is not particularly compelling reading, but wth minimal pages, and many water-color and pencil illustrations, this is a suitable book for younger readers - grades 4-6. Brown makes good use of quotations
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whenever possible. Overall, an attractive and accurate account. Show Less
LibraryThing member melodyreads
This is history you may have missed ... did you know that first day of the revolution, a small group of British soldiers surrendered to an old woman?
LibraryThing member AbigailAdams26
Children's author and artist Don Brown, whose many works of non-fiction for younger readers include biographies such as Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa and histories like Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans, turns in this slender volume to the subject of the American
Let It Begin Here!: April 19, 1775: The Day the American Revolution Began is the second book from Brown's Actual Times series that I have read, following upon his America Is Under Attack: September 11, 2001: The Day the Towers Fell. This series is meant to highlight momentous days in history, days which altered the course of human events, and changed the world. April 19, 1775 is certainly one such day, and Brown captures the excitement and chaos that unfolded as the British met with the first real armed resistance in their conflict with the American colonists. Some of the stories here were unknown to me - the surrender of a group of Redcoats to the elderly Mother Batherick, the part played by seventy-eight-year-old Samuel Whittemore, who survived habing half his face shot off and being bayoneted fourteen times - while others, such as the ride of Paul Revere, were already familiar. On the whole I enjoyed the book, and think it would make an excellent addition to a study unit on the American Revolution. I would recommend it for that purpose, as well as for the young reader interested in history. For my part, I intend to read more in the Actual Times series.
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Revolution. Specifically, to the battles of Lexington and Concord, which heralded the beginning of that conflict. After setting the scene with some background, Brown describes the British march from Boston, the initial "shot heard round the world," and the resulting fighting on that April day in 1775. He describes a number of well-known and more obscure incidents, and concludes with a discussion of what happened to some of the people mentioned in the text. A bibliography is included at the rear...Let It Begin Here!: April 19, 1775: The Day the American Revolution Began is the second book from Brown's Actual Times series that I have read, following upon his America Is Under Attack: September 11, 2001: The Day the Towers Fell. This series is meant to highlight momentous days in history, days which altered the course of human events, and changed the world. April 19, 1775 is certainly one such day, and Brown captures the excitement and chaos that unfolded as the British met with the first real armed resistance in their conflict with the American colonists. Some of the stories here were unknown to me - the surrender of a group of Redcoats to the elderly Mother Batherick, the part played by seventy-eight-year-old Samuel Whittemore, who survived habing half his face shot off and being bayoneted fourteen times - while others, such as the ride of Paul Revere, were already familiar. On the whole I enjoyed the book, and think it would make an excellent addition to a study unit on the American Revolution. I would recommend it for that purpose, as well as for the young reader interested in history. For my part, I intend to read more in the Actual Times series.
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Language
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English
Physical description
64 p.; 7.25 inches
ISBN
1596432217 / 9781596432215