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Synopsis
The first book in Don Brown's Actual Times series brings the start of the American Revolution to life.
A 26-year-old King George II found himself in financial turmoil after crushing the French, Austrians, and Spanish in battle. Luckily money was no object since he could easily get it back by raising taxes on his American colonies...but what King George didn't realize was the colonies were beginning to have a mind of their own and had started to set their sights on freedom.
The cast of characters includes those we know--the famous silversmith, turned messenger, Paul Revere--and many we haven't heard of like "Flinty Whittemore," a 78-year-old who fought off the British with a musket, two pistols, a sword, was bayoneted 14 times and still lived another 18 years to brag about it.
Detailed, yet accessible, Don Brown's award-winning nonfiction style brilliantly comes to life in Let It Begin Here, this fascinating account of the start of the Revolutionary War.
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About the Author
Don Brown's previous books include Kid Blink Beats the World, Mack Made Movies and Across a Dark and Wild Sea. He lives on Long Island, New York.
From School Library Journal
Starred Review. Grade 3–5—This attractive picture book opens with an introduction to the causes of the American Revolution. George III and his advisors looked for a way to relieve the monarch's war debt and decided to impose taxes on the American colonies. The colonists rebelled, but the real action started with Paul Revere's midnight ride and the "shot heard round the world," which plays out with a combination of accessible narrative and bloody realism in Brown's vivid, appealing watercolors. The central figures are sketched with interesting details: British Major Pitcairn bragged that "the whole banditti of Massachusetts will run away" if he showed them his sword, and American Captain Parker was "dying of tuberculosis." After the colonists' defeat at Lexington Green, the British marched to Concord and were beaten by a larger militia. An endnote describes the outcome of the war and the fates of the major players, including the King who "passed his last years raving mad and chained to a chair." Brown keeps the information flowing easily while getting the salient points across. His version is different enough from Dennis Brindell Fradin's book of the same name (Walker, 2005) for the two to exist peacefully together on the shelf.—Rebecca Donnelly, Loma Colorado Public Library, Rio Rancho, NM
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- PublisherFlash Point
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 159643645X
- ISBN 13 9781596436459
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages64
- IllustratorBrown Don
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