Samanthas Oceanliner Adventure

This book is written excellent! Samantha is on her way to London from New York, and Uncle Gard and Aunt Cornelia are taking her with them. She gives us a great tour of inside the boat. Good job, Dottie Raymer!

This engaging Samantha book is structured in the form of Samantha's scrapbook chronincling her vacation on the S.S. Londonia, an ocean liner traveling from New York to London in the year 1906. Each page tells about a different adventure Samantha has while exploring the boat: seeing her cabin, meeting a young Irish girl in steerage, going to the captain's ball, among other things. Samantha's first-person narrative of her adventures is accompanied by black-and-white photographs, which are supposed to be the photos Samantha takes on the ship. There are also small mementos such as playing cards, a menu from Samantha's dinner, and a map of the ocean liner's journey. Some of these mementos can actually be pulled out of the book, like the mask Samantha wears to the captain's ball. The scrapbook feel of the book helps the reader know exactly what Samantha's experience on the boat was like, and the story about Samantha exploring the ocean liner is fun and interesting. This book is perfect for girls in their pre-teen and early teenage years, people interested in history or looking for a fun travel story, and, of course, American Girl fans.

This an excellent book to purchase. It can be studied for hours on end with something new discovered each time. It is the quality you would expect from the Pleasant Company, however, you will never find this book in the local library. With its detailed pullouts and pop-ups, it is laid out like a scrapbook. Pullouts include a detailed map of the ship, a telegram received while onboard ship, and a period paper puppet with moveable joints. We learn much about traveling on an ocean-liner from New York to England in the early 1900's from the perspective of a young girl. What's even better is that our daughters don't even know thay are learning!

In April 1906, eleven-year-old Samantha Parkington joins her grandmother, Grandmary, and Grandmary's new husband, the Admiral, on a luxury cruise from New York to London. Keeping a scrapbook of the journey, Samantha describes her explorations on the S.S. Londonia, as she attends tea parties, fancy dinners, and a dance, plays games with the other children, meets the ship's captain, and meets a poor Irish girl who teaches Samantha about life in third class. In addition to the brief diary entries, Samantha's "scrapbook" includes photos, drawings, and a few removable objects, such as a map of the ship, a paper puppet, and money reproductions. This book was very nicely done and beautifully designed, and it contains interesting historical information about ocean liners as well as some current events of the early 1900s. Fans of Samantha's stories are sure to enjoy it.

This is another in the American Girls series about Samantha Parkington, a nine-year-old orphan girl living in the America of 1904. In this book, Samantha is invited to accompany her grandmother and the Admiral on a cruise from New York to London! Along the way, Samantha has adventures, meets new people, and learns a lot.This book, though, is entirely different that any other Samantha book my daughter and I have read. It is in the form of a scrapbook that Samantha kept. Each page has text, and illustrations in the form of pictures and whatnot that a girl would attach to a scrapbook. In fact, there are eight souvenirs that can be removed from the book and played with by your own little American girl!My eleven-year old daughter was absolutely delighted with this book. At first she enjoyed thumbing through it, and looking at the pictures and removable souvenirs. And then, she read the whole book and added it to her Samantha collection. This is a really different sort of book, excellently done. We highly recommend it.