Reviews for Let's Meet Frederick Douglass

The average rating for Let's Meet Frederick Douglass based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-02-23 00:00:00 Trevor Leal This was a wonderful introduction for my daughter to Christopher Columbus and Columbus Day. We got it out from the library in anticipation of the upcoming holiday, figuring it would be a good way to help my daughter understand it as a part of our homeschooling. There were facts in there that I'd never learned, like Christopher Columbus not being the only one who thought the world was round, and that others criticized him only because he thought the world was smaller than it actually is! I would definitely recommend it for an intro to Columbus Day and Christopher Columbus. I'm sure there are more extensive books on the subject, but this is definitely a good start for a child.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-05-12 00:00:00 Robert Forster We have paused our Story of the World while we delve a little more into Shakespeare study. I own several in this series, and we have found that even though the kids are older, this works best as a read-aloud rather than independent reading. The outline of the book is a rhyming text (I think written by author/teacher Lois Burdett? it's unclear) about the life of Shakespeare. The fun part are the drawings by Burdett's seven- and eight-year-old students, and their clever additional writings "by" Shakespeare and those near to him, such as a diary entry by his mother complaining about how he cried, or cute love letters written between Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway. This is well worth reading aloud.