. . . If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620

This was exactly what I was looking for! Our 2 grandsons have at least 7 ancestors who sailed on the Mayflower. We did a lot of research and found their names and stories. Since the children are very young, I wanted a good solid hardcover book about the Mayflower so I could write all this information for them to have when they are older. Hopefully it will be kept safe and not meet the fate of many paperback children's books.Beyond that, I was so pleased that this book was so interesting and really gives the reader a sense of what it must have been like for the Mayflower passengers and crew. One story in particular made me realize how lucky I am to have my grandsons. A great, great, great grandfather of theirs fell overboard and almost wasn't rescued!As a child, there was always something magical about the story of the Mayflower and first Thanksgiving! I wish every family had a copy of this book to set on the Coffee Table next Thanksgiving Day. Children and adults young and old would enjoy the great pictures, colors and tales.Do you know the name of the baby born on the Mayflower?

This book does an amazing job of conveying the truth of traveling on the Mayflower. They don't sugar coat things and make it pretty for people. It has lots of facts, including a page with an inside view of how the Mayflower would have looked and all the difficulties of traveling for so long with so many people on a crowded vessel. It's a really great book. We use it in our homeschool study of Thanksgiving.The whole series of "if you..." has been great. There are many of them about all types of different topics throughout history and we have only been able to get through a small amount of them so far, but they are all loaded with great factual information about history as far as I can tell. I plan to buy the whole series for our homeschool library. We are avid readers and I love how much these little books can teach.

We love this book--I read it with my 3- and 5-year-old (the 5-year-old gets more out of it, of course). It takes the reader through a full story of the pilgrims' daily live, in appealing language with appealing illustrations. The only downside is that I think it could use an update--I think some of the information is a bit out-of-date, and new findings have been revealed. But that's probably me being nit-picky, and it's totally fine for a young child.Also, this is a fairly thick book--it's not the type you read through in one sitting, but it's organized into questions and answers so we easily find a stopping point. I love using it to introduce my kiddos to history, and as I'm planning to homeschool, I know it'll continue to get a lot of use!

We enjoyed this book so much. It was loaded with information but not so much that it lost the kids attention. My kids were asking questions and we went down so many “rabbit holes” digging for more information from the book. I highly recommend it.

I wanted a book to share with my students that was more on the nonfiction side during the Thanksgiving Season. This book is informative and kids are eager to learn what it is like during this time.

Kept 9 year old interested. We both learned a lot reading this book together.

5+ Stars! This is an extremely well-written story explaining to children~and some adults, what brought the “Pilgrims,” to the “New World,” and the challenges they encountered for religious freedom. I bought this Scholastic book for my grandchildren 8 and 4, to teach this about our “First Thanksgiving.” We were all pleased! An excellent purchase!

I have a nerdy (said with intense love and adoration) bunch of grands who love family history, and since we have documented fam members that came over on the Mayflower, they wanted to know more about their ancestors life. I bought this for my 6year old grands birthday, to go along with his pilgrim costume and to share what it may have been like for our family in the past.. From experience I speak: when a child has an interest to learn, take every advantage while you can.

For any teachers, this was a surprise find when looking for texts all about USA. It sourced four weeks worth of Guided Reading, offering opportunities to develop retrieval, inference, explanation skills. Informative, well written text with both colour and black and white illustrations. I used it with Year 3 and they learned so much.

Je l'ai acheté pour lire moi-même en Anglais et raconter cet épisode en classe mais il est plus approprié pour des plus grands que des élémentaires. Cependant, il est divisé en chapitres posant des questions sur la vie quotidienne des migrants. Vraiment super, et très vivant!

Este libro tiene 80 páginas, es de una densidad considerable. El formato es el de un cuadernillo de 19 cm de alto x 23 cm de largo. Describe con detalle todo lo concerniente a la llegada a América de los peregrinos, combinando el rigor histórico con el idealismo infantil. Es un libro dirigido a niños nativos o con un inglés muy avanzado, ya que incluye mucho texto y algunos dibujos. Sería parecido a los libros de Roald Dahl, y bien podría llamarse "Todo lo que usted siempre quiso saber sobre los peregrinos y nunca se atrevió a preguntar". Ideal para quien desee profundizar e ir más allá de la típica historia.

Was für ein Schiff war die Mayflower? Wie fühlten sich die Pilgerväter als sie das erste Mal Land sahen? Welches war das erste Gebäude, das sie in Plymouth errichteten? Wurde auf der Mayflower gebadet? Was gab es zu essen? Wie wurden diejenigen bestraft, die gegen das Gesetz verstießen?Das sind nur einige Fragen, die durch das Buch "If you sailed on the Mayflower in 1620"- welches in einem Frage-Antwort-Stil aufgebaut ist - beantwortet werden.Berichtet wird von der Reise der sogenannten Pilgerväter auf der Mayflower, die im Jahre 1620 von Mittelengland aus nach Amerika fuhren und dort eine neue Heimat fanden.Es wird erklärt, warum die Pilgerväter England verließen, was sie an Bord der Mayflower mit sich führten und welche Schwierigkeiten sie zu meistern hatten.Der Leser erfährt etwas über den Mayflower-Vertrag und wie die Pilgerväter einen Friedensvertrag mit den Indianern schlossen und wie es diese tapferen Siedler schafften, in dem für sie neuen und fremden Land zu überleben.Ann McGovern vermittelt all diese historischen Fakten auf sehr anschauliche Art und Weise. Ihr Buch ist voll faszinierender Details über das alltägliche Leben an Bord des Schiffes.Junge Leser werden fasziniert sein, wenn sie darüber lesen, wie die Kinder der Pilgerväter auf selbstgemachten Matratzen schlafen mussten und das die meisten Häuser nur einen einzigen Stuhl hatten, welcher für den Mann im Hause reserviert war, während die Kinder ihr Essen stehend am Tisch einnehmen mussten.Die humorvollen, manchmal etwas zu naiv gehaltenen Illustrationen von Anna DiVito ergänzen den sehr informativen Text, welcher auf achtzig Seiten eine Menge wissenswerter Fakten für kleine Leser vermittelt.Insgesamt vier Sterne für ein überzeugendes Kinderbuch für Kinder im Alter von 8 bis 11 Jahren, das auf sehr schöne Weise historisches Wissen vermittelt.

I bought this book for a friend whom has children and she and her kiddies enjoyed reading this book