HISTORY
♥ A Little Story of Washington’s Crossing by Francis Lee (1910)
Retelling of the crossing of the Delaware.
$ George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster
Learn not only about Washington, learn what else was happening all around the world during his lifetime.
♦ $ Landmark George Washington, Frontier Colonel by Sterling North
♦ $ Martha, Daughter of Virginia, The Story of Martha Washington by Marguerite Vance
"She was tiny, and plump, and merry, and a skilled horsewoman before she was sixteen. She was a belle at Williamsburg and sought after by many beaux, and a bride at eighteen. She was a widow and the mother of two small children at twenty-six. She was courted and won by a handsome young officer in the Colonial Army and her wedding was the social event of Tidewater Virginia, before she was twenty-eight. Truly hers was a thrilling and dramatic life whose climax was reached when, as Mrs. George Washington, little Martha, daughter of Virginia, became the First Lady of the Land."
♦ $ Washington and the Revolution by Lynn Montross
North Star Books
Retelling of the crossing of the Delaware.
$ George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster
Learn not only about Washington, learn what else was happening all around the world during his lifetime.
♦ $ Landmark George Washington, Frontier Colonel by Sterling North
♦ $ Martha, Daughter of Virginia, The Story of Martha Washington by Marguerite Vance
"She was tiny, and plump, and merry, and a skilled horsewoman before she was sixteen. She was a belle at Williamsburg and sought after by many beaux, and a bride at eighteen. She was a widow and the mother of two small children at twenty-six. She was courted and won by a handsome young officer in the Colonial Army and her wedding was the social event of Tidewater Virginia, before she was twenty-eight. Truly hers was a thrilling and dramatic life whose climax was reached when, as Mrs. George Washington, little Martha, daughter of Virginia, became the First Lady of the Land."
♦ $ Washington and the Revolution by Lynn Montross
North Star Books
CULTURAL
♥ Washington’s Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation (1888) by Joseph Toner
Use them for copy work!
Use them for copy work!
HISTORICAL FICTION
BIOGRAPHIES
FC F4-359 Recollections of George Washington
♥ George Washington by Horace Scudder
More than once, this biography came up as the most recommended biography of Washington for students in its day.
$ George Washington by Norma Cournow Camp
Man of prayer and courage; a Sower Series biography.
♦ $ The Story of George Washington by Enid Meadowcroft
Signature Biography
♦ $ The Story of Martha Washington by Jeanette Nolan
Signature Biography
♥ The Story of Washington by Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye and Edward Eggleston (1893)
“This present account of Washington, while giving careful attention to his military and administrative acts, has spared no pains to record as far as possible those details of his life and those personal anecdotes that preserve to us the living man.” The intent was to provide that which was most 'interesting and delightful."
♦ The Years Between: Washington at Home at Mount Vernon by Hazel Wilson
More than once, this biography came up as the most recommended biography of Washington for students in its day.
$ George Washington by Norma Cournow Camp
Man of prayer and courage; a Sower Series biography.
♦ $ The Story of George Washington by Enid Meadowcroft
Signature Biography
♦ $ The Story of Martha Washington by Jeanette Nolan
Signature Biography
♥ The Story of Washington by Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye and Edward Eggleston (1893)
“This present account of Washington, while giving careful attention to his military and administrative acts, has spared no pains to record as far as possible those details of his life and those personal anecdotes that preserve to us the living man.” The intent was to provide that which was most 'interesting and delightful."
♦ The Years Between: Washington at Home at Mount Vernon by Hazel Wilson