Samuel Eaton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy by Kate Waters, Russ Kendall (Photographer), Russ Kendall (Photographer)

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Young Samuel Eaton has hardly slept from excitement! Today he will do a man's work--helping with his first rye harvest. But as his hands become blistered and the sun beats down, he wonders if he's up to the task. An American Bookseller Pick of the Lists with more than 23,000 hardcover copies sold. Full color.

Children's Literature

These color photographs were shot on location at the Plimouth Plantation. Using first person narration, the author takes readers through a typical day of chores and events for Pilgrim youngsters. The devices used in each picture were recreated from actual accounts. Close-ups show the details of how clothes were laced, how fields were harvested, how fences were constructed. Nightcaps , muskets and cauldrons that were routine in yesteryear, now fascinate by their absurdity. Sarah and Samuel were real children who arrived on the Mayflower. Sarah was nine in 1627 and she is mentioned in several Pilgrim journals, although there is no clear date of death. Samuel was seven in '27 and he lived 64 years. Reviewer:

Children's Literature

Plimouth Plantation, the outdoor, living-museum of 17th century Plymouth, Massachusetts, is the locale where Mr. Kendall photographed first Amanda Poole as Sarah (in Sarah Morton's Day), then Roger Burns as Samuel, as they and their colleagues dressed, work, and spoke like the Pilgrims of 1627. Photos and a first-person-singular narrative provide historical verisimilitude. Use a comparison of nine-year-old Sarah's, seven-year-old Samuel's and your elementary-school students' clothes, homes, and sunup-to-sundown activities to stimulate a lively class discussion.

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