- ISBN13: 9780395883938
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
In an unusual blend of fiction and nonfiction, A Pioneer Sampler chronicles one year in the lives of the Robinson family. Illustrated historical notes enlarge on the social history and describe activities related to the stories, from churning butter to predicting the weather. Young readers are invited to try their hand at these tasks to experience a bit of pioneer life…. More >>
A Pioneer Sampler: The Daily Life of a Pioneer Family in 1840
…according to our precocious, pioneer-addicted nine-year-old niece, who spent nearly all of Christmas day devouring it. Score one for Auntie B. and Uncle J.! Rating: 5 / 5
I am a visual mom. When I explain something to my kids, I usually draw a picture. Even my feeble-art-skill drawings get the point across, and I do love good illustrations.
This book has GOOD (dynamite good) illustrations. There is a story line – a year in the life of a 3-generation pioneer family – and then each page has almost a visual dictionary after the text, showing how maple sugar is produced, for example, or how to load a rifle, or what the traveling shoemaker’s kit looked like. Excellent. We got a ton out of this book. My kids are very interested in what the world was like when you had to make everything yourself. There are a few do-it-yourself ideas through the book. This is a good one to OWN, not just get from the library.
Rating: 5 / 5
I was looking for a book with stories to share with my kids while we learned about pioneer life. I was also keeping an eye open for a book that had ideas for crafts that would reflect the same subject. I was pleased to find this great little book that had both!
This is a well written, interesting book that my kids ask me to read to them again and again. Rating: 5 / 5
I ordered this to help give me information geared toward children as part of my duties as a museum docent. It was great. I am also a retired teacher and have shared many bits of info with our teachers that come to the museum. The museum has also purchased the book as a resource in our library. Rating: 4 / 5
Having borrowed this book from our public library I wanted a copy of my own to use as a resource for children’s programming at our local historical society. It gives so much information and the illustrations are wonderful. Rating: 5 / 5