Skippack Schoolby Marguerite de Angeli |
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"Exquisite and historically accurate. Simple, sincere, and unaffected."
--Mary Royer, Educator, Goshen College, in Mennonite Quarterly Review
With his German family, Eli crosses the Atlantic on The Charming Nancy. From Philadelphia and Germantown, oxen pull their wagon into Penn’s Woods, where they make their new home in the Skippack area. Neighbors help them cut trees and build a log cabin.
Eli loves outdoor work and play, the wild animals, and building a bench for his mom. But Mom says he must go to school. Though Eli expects the teacher to be ugly and cross, Master Christopher Dock is kind, firm, and patient.
Details of pioneer living and education fill out the story. Eli’s mischief gets him into trouble, but Master Christopher urges him to become a good student and rewards him with a trip to Germantown and a prize of Fraktur artwork.
This reissued 1939 classic tells a treasured tale about a boy and the praying pioneer schoolmaster, Christopher Dock, the first in America to write a book on pedagogy.
About the Author
Marguerite de Angeli (1889-1987) took great effort to be historically faithful in her delightful stories and sketches. She wrote 28 books for young readers. These include Yonie Wondernose and Henner’s Lydia. In addition to the Newbery Medal and the Caldecott Honors Awards, she received The Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and the Regina Medal.
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