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America's Ethan Allen
This biography of Ethan Allen is a reprint of the first illustrated edition published in 1958. In this volume Ethan Allen becomes more than a myth. Holbrook - one of the West's most famous writers - presents the life and legends of Colonel Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain boys of the American Revolution in a highly informative and entertaining manner. Second illustrated...more
Paperback, 96 pages
Published
October 1st 1976
by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
(first published 1949)
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A biography of the fearless American, Ethan Allen. The text reads more like a story than a traditional biography which is usually broken up into section that cover birth, education, death etc. The book reads like a factual tall tale with Ethan Allen the mighty man at the center. Illustrations were both black and white and full color, some were wordless 2 page spreads, none of them particularly moved me enough to write about. Good hero story about a real person, though I doubt it would find an au...more
This isn't so much a children's illustrated book as an illustrated history of an American hero - plenty of text adding up to just under a hundred pages. (The Vermont population would have been a huge market for the book when it was published in 1949.) The narrative doesn't slow down to fill in a lot of detail of side stories but moves along fairly quickly with the illustrations adding some interest to each of the pages. The two-page spreads are the most engaging, most notably the Westminster Mas...more
The pictures were beautiful and I have to admit that I love these old biographies. Maybe they are a bit flexible on the facts (like giving the main characters dialogue to help the story along) but if I think of them as biographical fiction, then they are brilliant! :) I do want to know how I missed Ethan Allen in all my history lessons. What an interesting character!
This is a biography of Ethan Allen who played a major role in Vermont becoming a state. I found it rather long and it has many offensive words for Native Americans that are outdated. However, there are nice illustrations.
Interesting biography and history of early life in New England
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1950 Caldecott Honor
Favorite illustration: The two page spread near the end where the Green Mountain Boys pay homage to their leader
Kid-appeal: I must confess I skimmed this! It's close to 100 pages long. I like that this is clearly a biography written for children, but I just don't think of this as a "picture book". The use of of dialog makes for a readable history and the illustrations do give a great sense of what life was like in colonial America.
Favorite illustration: The two page spread near the end where the Green Mountain Boys pay homage to their leader
Kid-appeal: I must confess I skimmed this! It's close to 100 pages long. I like that this is clearly a biography written for children, but I just don't think of this as a "picture book". The use of of dialog makes for a readable history and the illustrations do give a great sense of what life was like in colonial America.
A biography, birth to death, of Ethan Allen. It was unexpectedly long for a picture book, and I can see it being used for a book report or history report by an elementary school student.
Read for #nerdcott. Reviewed in Caldecott Challenge Post #68: http://storytimesecrets.blogspot.com/...
Not sure I would consider this a "picture book" by today's standards. More of a novella with illustrations. Interesting book, even if it is a little dated.
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Stewart Hall Holbrook (1893 - 1964) was an American lumberjack, writer, and popular historian. His writings focused on what he called the "Far Corner" - Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. A self-proclaimed "low-brow" historian, his topics included Ethan Allen, the railroads, the timber industry, the Wobblies, and eccentrics of the Pacific Northwest.
He wrote for The Oregonian for over thirty years, and...more
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