Sarah Morton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Girl by Kate Waters, Russ Kendall (Photographer)

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Text and photographs of Plimouth Plantation follow a pilgrim girl through a typical day as she milks the goats, cooks and serves meals, learns her letters, and adjusts to her new stepfather.

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 was real child 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.

Children's Literature

When they read the small print in Thanksgiving books, children will find that most authors acknowledged help from the staff of Plymouth Plantation. That outdoor, living-museum of 17th century Plymouth, Massachusetts, is the locale of Kate Waters' Sarah Morton's Day. It's where Russ Kendall photographed Amelia Poole in the role of Sarah, as she and her colleagues dressed, work, and spoke like the Pilgrims of 1627. Ms. Waters' first-person-singular narrative, in combination with Mr. Kendall's full color pictures, provides an historical verisimilitude with which youngsters will quickly and easily identify. A comparison of nine-year-old Sarah's and your elementary- school students' clothes, homes, and sunup-to-sundown activities ought to stimulate a lively class discussion.

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