In an unusual blend of fiction and nonfiction, A Pioneer Sampler chronicles one year in the lives of the Robinson family. Illustrated historical no...
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Sep 28, 2009
Nicola
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Reason for Reading: Read aloud to the 9yo as part of our history curriculum.
Comments: Follows the daily life of a pioneer family, the Robertsons, living on a backwoods farm in Southern Ontario in 1840 from spring to New Years. Along with Ma and Pa, the family consists of two elder children (brother & sister), two younger children (brother & sister), a baby and Granny from Scotland. Told in the third person, the story is given alternately from the younger sister and brother's points More...
Comments: Follows the daily life of a pioneer family, the Robertsons, living on a backwoods farm in Southern Ontario in 1840 from spring to New Years. Along with Ma and Pa, the family consists of two elder children (brother & sister), two younger children (brother & sister), a baby and Granny from Scotland. Told in the third person, the story is given alternately from the younger sister and brother's points More...
Feb 07, 2011
Elise
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Read this aloud to my 7- and 9-year-old sisters over the last few weeks. We all enjoyed it. The story was better than I thought it would be, particularly in the way the children were portrayed - realistic rather than overly sentimental. The information/non-fiction pages were interesting, and the illustrations were good, too.
Mar 12, 2011
Chloe
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Choe: It was about a pioneer family living on a farm in Ontario. It was interesting because you could learn about how people lived. They live differently from how we live now: they had to make their own butter, they had to sew their own socks. To get some honey, they would put out a pot of dry honey to attract a bee, then they would follow the bee back to its home in the honey tree. They put a red scarf on the same tree so they could find it in the Fall. I would like to be people li More...
Jun 02, 2011
Katheryn
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This is a great read for elementary kids that would like to gather ideas of how to live like a pioneer.
Apr 17, 2008
Lynne
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This is a fun book for kids wanting to know more about life in the pioneer days after reading the Little House books. A nine-year-old boy and ten-year-old girl are featured, so the reader gets a wider range of activities. Each chapter contains a fictional story followed by facts, illustrations and an activity for the modern kid.
Apr 27, 2011
Lacie
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I have very fond memories of this book; I read it so many times when I was a child that my copy is falling apart. "A Pioneer Sampler" tells the story of a pioneer family living in the 1840's. The book offers "hands-on" explanations of the lifestyle, activities, work, etc. of the pioneer families. Delightful little book.
Mar 27, 2009
Jeniann
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A book that explains details about how people lived in the 1840s in the United States. It makes me so grateful that I didn't live back then. People sure had to work hard to have food to eat. Phew!
Oct 30, 2007
Beth
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This is a good history book too, it's about a girl named Sarah and her family.
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