- Paperback: 48 pages
- Publisher: Kids Can Press (Sep 1 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1550749552
- ISBN-13: 978-1550749557
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 20.1 x 0.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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- #25 in Books > Children's Books > History & Historical Fiction > United States > 1800s
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From School Library Journal
Grade 3-5-In this companion to A Pioneer Thanksgiving (Kids Can, 1999), the Robertson family celebrates Christmas by making gifts, cooking, playing games, caroling, decorating, and then awaiting the arrival of relatives. Directions to replicate the activities are included. Overlapping boundaries between fiction and nonfiction, between textbook and trade, this stolid hybrid is illustrated with full-page, workmanlike sepia pencil drawings.-S. P.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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A Pioneer Christmas,
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This review is from: A Pioneer Christmas: Celebrating in the Backwoods in 1841 (Paperback)
This is a great story of a pioneer family Christmas & how they went about the preparations. The illustrations are reallly lovely too, a great book to read to your children & grandchildren!
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A Simple Canadian Christmas,
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This review is from: A Pioneer Christmas: Celebrating in the Backwoods in 1841 (Paperback)
Reason for Reading: next & last in the series. Obviously the appropriate time of the year to be reading this.Summary: Tells of how the Robertson family spends a typical Christmas and yet this year is not so typical as they are awaiting the arrival of family members. Their aunt and uncle (who are expecting their first child) are on their way to come buy land in the area and start their own homestead. This makes the family extra anxious as they not only prepare for Christmas but also await the arrival of their guests. Comments: It's hard to review this book without comparing it to the first two previous books in the series. This book is identical in set-up as the Thanksgiving one being shorter and having small non-fiction sections and a few crafts or activities between the chapters of the fictional story. We didn't do any of the crafts but they are very simple (though you will need to buy/find the not-just-laying-around-the-house items ahead of time) activities include games, baking and singing. The story is somewhat weaker than the others in this series which switch points of view from sister Sarah then to brother Willie. A Pioneer Christmas keeps Sarah as the main character and we follow her around as she joins the various members of the family doing their tasks and sometimes lending a hand though hardly mentioning the two brothers at all. In my opinion the book looses its boy/girl appeal because of this. Instead of letting Christmas itself be the climax of the story (as she did with the Thanksgiving book) Greenwood has instead woven a plot into this book about the coming relatives and their baby which obviously symbolizes the coming of the Christ Child. While presenting a secular book, Greenwood has managed to keep this a Christian pioneer celebration of Christmas. There is a one page introduction of how the various European immigrants to Canada brought their customs to Canada and how, to this day, our Christmas celebration is an amalgamation of those traditional customs. Halfway through the book the Christian component first appears in a Scottish carol that is song and finally in the last chapter the family sits down and reads the story of Jesus' birth from the Bible, while using the words 'babe' and 'child', though "Jesus" is finally spoken as well as "Christ". Acceptable enough, I think, for both believers and non-believers to feel comfortable with. The weakest book of the three "Robertson Family" books but still an enjoyable read at Christmas time.
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A Pioneer Christmas,
By L. Deutsch - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: A Pioneer Christmas: Celebrating in the Backwoods in 1841 (Paperback)
I am a second grade teacher at a public school and we do a whole unit on Pioneers. My students loved this book. We read one or two chapters a day for about a week during the holidays. There are some very nice pioneer crafts and recipes that are included in the book. A Pioneer Christmas was a great addition to our studies about pioneer life. I would highly recommend.
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An Excellent Sequel to PIONEER SAMPLER,
By L. M Young - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: A Pioneer Christmas: Celebrating in the Backwoods in 1841 (Paperback)
Yet a second sequel (following the Thanksgiving book) about a pioneer Scots family in Canada. As always, chapters are followed by information about the era and simple historical craft projects that can be done. The illustrations are nicely detailed.
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