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Saving the Liberty Bellby Megan Mcdonald
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Some tall tales are actually true. This is a grand one, told with rightful pride by a boy who was there in the city of Philadelphia in 1777 and was lucky enough to play a role in the American Revolution. John Jacob Mickley, eleven years old, and his father were in the city when the Great Bell began ringing Brong! Brong! BRONG! from atop the State House to warn the citizens: "Redcoats! The Redcoats are coming!" And come the British did — with their muskets and their cannons and their will to keep the colonies for their king. Looting they came and stealing any metal they could get their hands on to melt down for the making of more weapons. And the prize above all? The Great Bell itself — metal for many a cannon! But the clever Pensylvanians (yes, the word was spelled like that then) had other plans for keeping the Bell safe from the British. Megan McDonald has aptly caught John Jacob's excited retelling of the story, and Marsha Gray Carrington has relished every wild and wooly moment of it in her pictures — both funny and carefully researched. Synopsis:Eleven-year-old John Jacob Mickley is in the city of Philadelphia in 1777, when the Great Bell rings out a warning from atop the State House that the Redcoats are coming. The British are eying the Great Bell as metal for a cannon, but John Jacob tells how the clever residents kept the bell safe. Full color. About the AuthorMegan McDonald's many books include Baya, Baya, Lulla-by-a; Insects Are My Life; and the IRA Award-winning Is This a House for Hermit Crab? Once a librarian herself, she is now a noted visitor to libraries, and is also the author of the best-selling Judy Moody books. She lives with her husband in Sebastopol, California.Marsha Gray Carrington illustrated Tres Seymour's Jake Johnson: The Story of a Mule; Lezlie Evan's Sometimes IFeel Like a Storm Cloud; and Carolyn Crimi's Tessa's Tip-Tapping Toes. She is co-owner of mjZOOM, a greeting-card-and-gift company for which she does hundreds of humorous illustrations a year. She and her husband, a high school history teacher, live with his two daughters and one loud dog in Los Angeles, California. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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