Buttons for General Washington
Peter and Connie Roop
This is just one episode from the Revolutionary War retold in story form in which a boy delivers a message to General Washington hidden in his buttons. Exciting! He needs to summon his courage in order to carry out a big responsibility. Technically, reconstructed historical narratives are classified as historical fiction. However, I have tagged them as biographies because they are also true stories of real people. Inspiring anecdotes from the lives of ordinary people can leave the same imprints on a child's mind as those of famous people. A good story narrative engages the listener and dramatizes the virtue in action. Washington is in the background in this one, but children can become intimate with the lives of heroes over time by reading many many stories in which they are present.
You can trust anything written by the Roops! They will show up in this blog a few more times.
I hesitate to assign grade or age levels. These levels are general suggestions due to the fact that younger children probably would not have the stamina to listen to the longer books. Also not all content is suitable for younger children. But all ages would enjoy hearing or reading the stories on the list marked for PreK-4.
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