Yankee Doodle America: The Spirit of 1776 from A to Z by Wendell Minor
 
Grade: elementary
 
Summary: If you traveled the roads of colonial America, colorful hand-painted signs would greet you when you came across an inn or tavern, and inside, folks would be gathered to eagerly share the news of the day.
 
Inviting readers to "follow the signs along a colonial road during the years 1765 to 1783," the author presents an alphabetically arranged series of handsome, period oil paintings on wood, shaped like the public house signs, which spotlight people, events and places pivotal to the creation of the nation.
 
Accompanying the signs, is information about influential individuals (e.g., Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, Henry Knox, Molly Pitcher, George Washington), key sites (Independence Hall, Old North Church), vital symbols (the Liberty Bell, the Stars and Stripes) and locations of crucial events in the war (Trenton, Valley Forge, Yorktown).
 
Children also learn that Paul Revere and the Sons of Liberty met to plot against George III at the Green Dragon tavern in Boston, Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence at Philadelphia's Indian Queen tavern, and Washington delivered his farewell speech to his officers at Fraunces Tavern in New York.
 
Though the volume's A to Z format requires a sequence that is not necessarily chronological, a concise timeline of significant dates sets the contents of this creative compendium in the proper context.
 
Book Details
 
Format: Hardcover with paper dj
 
Condition : like new
 
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
 
ISBN: 9780399240034