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History - American Genre
Books in the History - American genre:
Thrashin’ Time: Harvest Days in the Dakotas (1991)
Peter gets to help when the steam thrasher comes to his father’s farm.
Author(s):
David Weitzman
Illustrator(s):
David Weitzman
Old Ironsides: Americans Build a Fighting Ship (1997)
The story of the building of the American super-frigate U.S.S. Constitution.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
David Weitzman
Illustrator(s):
David Weitzman
The Children’s Book of America (1998)
Short essays on American history, biographies, poems and folk tales.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
Pouring Iron: A Foundry Ghost Story (1998)
Howard prepares a mould for casting at the Old Knight Foundry.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
David Weitzman
Illustrator(s):
David Weitzman
Locomotive: Building an Eight-Wheeler (1999)
The construction of a 4-4-0 from draftsman to delivery.
Author(s):
David Weitzman
Illustrator(s):
David Weitzman
Jenny: The Airplane that Taught America to Fly (2002)
Author(s):
David Weitzman
Illustrator(s):
David Weitzman
Model T: How Henry Ford Built a Legend (2002)
Describes how Henry Ford built his Model T.
Author(s):
David Weitzman
Illustrator(s):
David Weitzman
More Stories from the Round Barn (2002)
The second volume in the history of the Dougan family farm in Beloit, Wisconsin.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Jacqueline Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Photographs
Blueberries for the Queen (2004)
In the summer of 1942, when Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands lives down the road from his family’s house in Massachusetts, young William decides to take her some of the blueberries he has picked.
Author(s):
John Paterson
Katherine Paterson
Illustrator(s):
Susan Jeffers
A Subway for New York (2005)
How they built the first subway in New York City.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
David Weitzman
Illustrator(s):
David Weitzman
A Blow for Liberty (2006)
Sixteen-year-old Jed Starbuck of Nantucket joins the crew of “The True Patriot” to fight the British at sea during the Revolutionary War.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Victor Mays
Ain’t Nobody a Stranger to Me (2007)
A former slave tells his granddaughter how he took the Underground Railway to freedom.
Author(s):
Ann Grifalconi
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography (2014)
Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote her autobiography in 1930. It did not find a publisher but served as the basis for her subsequent series of Little House books. It is here published for the first time with copious annotations.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
None