Paul Revere and the Bell Ringers: Ready-to-Read Level 2

by Jonah Winter, Bert Dodson (Illustrator)

Overview

Learn all about the childhood of America's famous Patriot in this nonfiction Level 2 Ready-to-Read!

As a boy working in his father's shop, Paul Revere hears adults talk all about their clubs with meetings, rules, and elections. It gives Paul an idea: Why doesn't he start his own club—a bell ringing club? A special section in the back of the book includes a time line of Paul Revere's life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780689856358
Publisher:	Simon Spotlight
Publication date:	11/01/2003
Series:	Ready-to-Read COFA Series
Edition description:	Repackage
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	605,668
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.20(d)
Lexile:	570L (what's this?)
Age Range:	5 - 7 Years

About the Author

Jonah Winter is the award-winning author of more than forty nonfiction picture books that promote environmental awareness and social and racial justice. Among them are The Snow Man; The Little Owl & the Big Tree: A Christmas Story; Oil; The Secret Project; Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case of R.B.G. vs. Inequality; My Name is James Madison Hemings; Barack; The Founding Fathers!; and Lillian’s Right to Vote, a Jane Addams Children’s Book Award recipient and Kirkus Prize finalist.

Editorial Reviews

K-Gr 2-These books focus on an event in the early years of two famous Americans. In the first offering, a young King was told by his best friend that they could no longer play together because " colored and white can't mix." This experience inspired him to try to "change the rules." With lots of texture and touches of charcoal, the painterly illustrations have a nostalgic quality that effectively sets this story in the past. Winter describes how Revere and his friends started a bell-ringing club, voted on their own rules, and entered into a contract with a church to provide their services. This responsibility and dedication to helping his town were lessons that "gave Paul Revere ideas about how to become one of America's greatest patriots." Dodson's appealing artwork depicts the action and presents scenes of 18th-century Boston. Both titles feature short sentences and a simple vocabulary. Two additional purchases.-Gina Powell, Hidenwood Elementary School, Newport News, VA Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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