School & Library Binding
(Turtleback Books, Oct. 31, 1986)
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Recreates the early life of the frontier hero who blazed a trail through the Cumberland Gap and led the first white settlers into Kentucky.
When she fails to build a table just like her brother, little Betsy Ross turns to her mother for reassurance and learns that she must always be true to herself in order to find happiness. Simultaneous.
When young Jack Kennedy's little sister gets tired of playing, Jack suggests a a sail. Within moments Jack is steering the small chip toward Osterville to say hello to Captain Manley. Under darkening clouds the two children head back home -- but they do not make it before a storm hits, threatening their lives. Is young Jack a good enough sailor to bring his sister home to safety?
A dramatized story of the childhood of one of the greatest explorers of the interior continent of North America, with moral lessons written smoothly into the tale.