Age
8-11
Grade
PK-7
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christopher Bing
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
Hardcover
(Handprint Oct. 1, 2001)
, 1st edition
In his magnificent interpretation of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow s poem, Christopher Bing seamlessly weaves history and imagination into a rich portrait of an American hero. A meticulous researcher, Bing includes material that provides texture to history, maps that follow the British campaign to quell the rebellious citizenry, as well as the patriot s ride into the Massachusetts night of April, 1775. Documents firmly affixed into the book, including the British general s orders to his troops and Revere s own deposition relating the events, give the reader not only a visual experience but a tactile one as well. Far more than a brilliantly presented history lesson, this book represents a tour de force of coherent artistic vision. In an extraordinary series of rich and moody engravings, from the mysteriously shimmering rigging of the British sloop, The Somerset, looming in a moonlit Boston harbor to the taut urgency of a man and his horse galloping at a combustible moment in the American experience, this book illuminates our country s past unlike any other.
- ISBN
- 1929766130 / 9781929766130
- Pages
- 40
- Weight
- 19.2 oz.
- Dimensions
- 9.3 x 0.5
in.