New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Honor recipient Steve
Sheinkin gives young readers an American history lesson they'll never
forget in the fun and funny **King George: What Was His Problem?:
Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the American
Revolution, featuring illustrations by Tim Robinson.
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A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
A New York Public Library 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing
What do the most famous traitor in history, hundreds of naked soldiers,
and a salmon lunch have in common? They're all part of the amazing story
of the American Revolution.
Entire books have been written about the causes of the American
Revolution.
This isn't one of them.
What it is, instead, is utterly interesting, ancedotes (John Hancock
fixates on salmon), from the inside out (at the Battle of Eutaw Springs,
hundreds of soldiers plunged into battle "naked as they were born")
close-up narratives filled with little-known details, lots of quotes
that capture the spirit and voices of the principals ("If need be, I
will raise one thousand men, subsist them at my own expense, and march
myself at their head for the relief of Boston" --George Washington), and
action. It's the story of the birth of our nation, complete with
soldiers, spies, salmon sandwiches, and real facts you can't help but
want to tell to everyone you know.
"For middle-graders who find Joy Hakim's 11-volume A History of US
just too daunting, historian Sheinkin offers a more digestible version
of our country's story...The author expertly combines individual stories
with sweeping looks at the larger picture--tucking in extracts from
letters, memorable anecdotes, pithy characterizations and famous lines
with a liberal hand."--Kirkus Reviews
Also by Steve Sheinkin:
Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous
Weapon
The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism &
Treachery
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil
Rights
Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football
Team
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam
War
Which Way to the Wild West?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell
You About Westward Expansion
***Two Miserable Presidents: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You
About the Civil War
*****Born to Fly: The First Women's Air Race Across America
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