Las Animas - Bent County Library District

Simple rhyming text and illustrations with flaps to lift show how the pilgrims came to America and how the Native Americans taught them to fish, hunt and plant--and then shared the harvest with a Thanksgiving feast. On board pages.

Text and photographs follow a six-year-old Pilgrim boy through a busy day during the spring harvest in 1627: doing chores, getting to know his Wampanoag Indian neighbors, and spending time with his family.

Tells the story of the Pilgrims--their journey across the Atlantic, the founding of the first settlements, their relationships with the Native Americans, and the celebration of the first Thanksgiving.

"The Times of Their Lives presents a realistic, factual account of the Plymouth colony based on contemporary archaeology, cultural research, and living history. Taking little known trial transcripts, personal accounts, wills, and probate records, as well as physical artifacts such as shards and spoons unearthed from old foundations, James and Patricia Deetz reveal what life in seventeenth-century Plymouth was really like. In the process they blow...

A portrait of a Pilgrim settlement more than three hundred years ago, describing the duties of each family member and their roles in the larger community.

Briefly describes what life was like for the Pilgrims who came to America in the seventeenth century.

Portrays daily life aboard the Mayflower and in Massachusetts as the Pilgrims worked, prayed, studied, and lived together in a place that offered religious freedom and land of their own.