A Sampler View of Colonial Life

A Sampler View of Colonial Life
Author: Mary Cobb
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Total Pages: 74
Release: 1999-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780761303725

Describes the samplers stitched by girls in colonial America and explains what these samplers tell about the lives of their makers. Includes simple projects.

Colonial Cooking

Colonial Cooking
Author: Susan Dosier
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780736803526

Discusses everyday life, family roles, cooking methods, most important foods, and celebrations of the colonial period in American history. Includes recipes and sidebars.

Santa Fe

Santa Fe
Author: Elizabeth West
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2012
Genre: Santa Fe (N.M.)
ISBN: 0865348766

This question-and-answer book contains 400 reminders of what is known and what is sometimes forgotten or misunderstood about a city that was founded more than 400 years ago. Not a traditional history book, this group of questions is presented in an apparently random order, and the answers occasionally meander off topic, as if part of a casual conversation.

It's Back to School We Go

It's Back to School We Go
Author: Ellen B. Jackson
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2003
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0761319484

Children from around the world explain the different things they do during their first day of school, in a colorful tale with fact boxes, easy-to-read text, and bright illustrations.

Stories NeverEnding

Stories NeverEnding
Author: Jan Irving
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2004-02-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0313085455

Children will delight in creating their very own art museum, participating in a storytelling festival, holding a yummy dinner theatre, creating a keen jeans book bag, and much more. In addition, each chapter contains a list of ideas that serve as springboards for activities that you can develop on your own. With writing projects, wordplay, arts and crafts, dramatics, math problems, history lessons, and more, this guide makes it easy to engage young learners while building literacy and reading skills, along with a love of books and reading. Grades K-6

Books Children Love (Revised Edition)

Books Children Love (Revised Edition)
Author: Elizabeth Laraway Wilson
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2002-10-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433516349

A love for reading is one of the most precious gifts that we can give children. It nurtures their imagination and creativity, lets them explore other worlds, and opens their minds to new truths and knowledge in appealing, inspiring ways. But how can we sort through thousands of children's books to discover the really worthwhile ones? Elizabeth Wilson offers us a newly revised, comprehensive guide to the very best in children's literature. Just as in the original volume, she comments on the tone and content of excellently written, captivating books in over two dozen subject areas. Hundreds of new titles have been added while retaining timeless classics and modern favorites-all of which respect traditional values. So that no matter what the children's ages are or whether they love fact or fiction, you can trust these books to share things that you can believe in and kids will delight in.

Early American Villages

Early American Villages
Author: Raymond Bial
Publisher: Children's Press(CT)
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780516237046

Travel to the sites where colonial villages, longhouses, missions and presidios, frontier settlements, and cow towns once thrived. Bial's photography captures the amazing spirit of the many different people who carved communities from our rugged land. Discover how they built homes and started businesses, made and traded goods,m and worked incredibly hard to realize their dreams.