The First American Colonists - Couverture souple

Edith McCall

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0898245923 ISBN 13 : 9780898245929

Editeur : Royal Fireworks Press, 2021

Synopsis

As children, we seem to emerge from American history classes with the idea that the first Pilgrims came to the shores of America, built a few homes, were befriended by the local native people, and celebrated a happy Thanksgiving before plunging headlong into the colonization of the New World.

If we think critically, we know it can’t have been that easy. But how much do we really remember—or did we ever even truly know—beyond that simple narrative of arrive, settle, colonize? Of course, it certainly was not that easy. In fact, many people died in the effort to settle in the new land that would someday become the United States of America, and many more struggled through one hardship after another to keep their small settlements going. It didn’t help that some of the leaders made poor decisions along the way, at times turning friendly Native Americans into enemies. In the strange new continent, they needed all the help they could get.

Despite the effort involved, the settlers persisted, and more people began to come over from Europe. But it was a wild, unforgiving land that they were trying to tame, and it was only with courage and determination that those who succeeded did so. The settlers faced frustration and loss; they made mistakes; they underestimated the hard work involved in carving an existence into the American wilderness. But they kept at it until they had established colonies so that they and others like them could pursue their dreams across the ocean and try to make them come true.

Yes, the Europeans arrived, settled, and colonized, but the truth is far more complex than that, and the stories in this book illustrate that truth. No one who reads them will grow up believing that old, idealized narrative about the first American colonists. That narrative is nice, but the truth offers valuable lessons of hard work and perseverance that will benefit children for the rest of their lives.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Royal Fireworks Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0898245923
• ISBN 13: 9780898245929
• Reliure: Perfect Paperback
• Illustrateur: Christopher Tice
• Nombre de pages: 71
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible