Going West
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Book Overview
Award-winning author Jean Van Leeuwen tells the moving story of a pioneer family during the Westward Expansion One day in early spring they packed everything they had into our wagon, and set out to find a new home. Sleeping under the stars, weathering terrible storms, and fording swollen rivers, Hannah and her family made the journey of a lifetime. An American Bookseller Pick of the Lists.
"Like pages torn from a frontier journal, stirring sketches and lyrical text form a moving tribute to the brave families to whom the book is dedicated."--Publishers Weekly
"Like pages torn from a frontier journal, stirring sketches and lyrical text form a moving tribute to the brave families to whom the book is dedicated."--Publishers Weekly
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0140560963
ISBN13:9780140560961
Release Date:August 1997
Publisher:Puffin Books
Length:48 Pages
Weight:0.45 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 10.4" x 8.4"
Age Range:2 to 5 years
Grade Range:Preschool to Kindergarten
Customer Reviews
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The book has not been well researched.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
The story is nicely told and the illustrations are beautifully done, but there are details that concern me from a historical point-of-view. Where do they find logs big enough for the walls of a cabin on the prairie? Instead the author should have had them build a sod house. Also, there would not be room to ride in the wagon or to sleep in it. It would be too crammed with goods and food. Usually the children, except for very little ones, walked. The family slept outside. These were very narrow and cramped wagons.
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