American Pioneers & Patriots Second Edition Hardcover

I've read aloud a few stories from this book to make history come alive for my first grader in homeschool. Each section also includes a page explaining how people in history accomplished tasks like building homes or making butter. I changed "Indians" to "Native Americans" and added in the names of the Native American leaders on page 37. I balanced this historical fiction with stories by Joseph Bruchac, visits to the National Museum of the American Indian in DC, and more. We've also discussed slavery at length and have visited the slave quarters at Mt. Vernon. (I'm looking forward to seeing the new African-American museum in DC!) Here are the pioneer groups covered in this engaging volume of historic fiction: Spanish, English, Dutch, French, Irish, Norwegian, and possibly some other Europeans (I haven't read it all). Subjects include George Washington, Wilderness Trail, Ohio River, Covered Wagons, Santa Fe/Oregon/California Trails, Plains, and Railroad. Enjoy.

This book is made up of stories about boys and girls who lived in different places and times in our country. They are exciting stories. It is important, however to remember that these fictional stories represent real boys and girls who lived during this time in history. Awesome!

I found this book to have an incredible amount of detailed information on the way early Americans lived. My children and I especially liked the informational pages on "How Butter Was Made", "How Pioneer Lived in Covered Wagons" and "How People Lived on Sailing Ships", among many others. Well illustrated and contains many great maps. We really enjoyed this book as part of our homeschooling history library.

I used this book as a part of my daughter's third-grade home schooling curriculum. When I first laid eyes on it, I thought, "FINALLY! Someone has written a history book as it should have been written-not just a collection of dry facts and dates, but written as though it involved real people!"This book gives accurate historical facts of American history (from a Christian perspective), but includes short fictional stories about families who may have existed in the early, forming years of the United States. These interesting and entertaining fictional stories contain historical facts and truths about how American pioneers and patriots worked, travelled, lived and played. Each story features children, who hold children's interest.Through these tales, my daughter was able to quickly learn and appreciate how difficult it was for the founders of our country-and it gave me a new appreciation as well!History need not be dry and boring, written in passive tense without feeling, emotion or spirit. I feel more "history books" should be written this way. There is no reason to bore young readers to death and leaving them with a bad taste for history. Had I had more books like this when I was growing up, perhaps I would have enjoyed these courses more and done better in them than I did.BRAVO to Christian Liberty Press for daring to try something new and for helping bring "history" to life!