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"Count with the Cooper"
A whimsical colonial cooper makes a variety of wooden containers. Youngsters will learn to count from one tub to eight piggins. Colonial Williamsburg Board Books are intended for children from six to twenty-four months old. They feature sturdy construction, childproof rounded corners, bright primary colors, and simple, easy-to-read type.
8 pp., 8 color illustrations, 6 x 6
1993
CW No. 318436
Board book
ISBN 0-87935-093-8
$3.95
"A Colonial Williamsburg ABC"
Picture book which uses the alphabet to introduce children to eighteenth-century Williamsburg.
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"A Colonial Williamsburg Activities Book:
Fun Activities for Young Visitors"
Word searches, puzzles, mazes, coloring, and other fun activities introduce youngsters to Virginia’s colonial capital.
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"A Colonial Williamsburg Activities Book:
Fun Things to do for Children 4 and Up"
Fun-filled book which takes young children on a journey into the past through puzzles, coloring, and matching objects.
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"A Horse's Tale: A Colonial Williamsburg Adventure"
A new book for children, featuring characters based on Colonial Williamsburg’s beloved dolls – Margaret the Milliner, Garrick the Gardener, Ben the Blacksmith, and the popular horses, Lancer and Mary.
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"Amy, Ben, and Catalpa the Cat: A Fanciful Story of This and That"
Amy, Ben, and Catalpa the Cat take children on a fun-filled adventure in this colorful alphabet storybook in verse.
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"Animals at Colonial Williamsburg"
Baby and adult animals shown in realistic Historic Area settings in a sturdy and colorful board book for six to twenty-four months.
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"Ann’s Story: 1747"
Nine-year-old Ann McKenzie is learning how to knit, cook, manage a household, and behave like a proper young woman, but she really wants to assist her father, Dr. Kenneth McKenzie, with his patients and work in his apothecary!
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"Archaeology for Young Explorers:
Uncovering History at Colonial Williamsburg"
Young explorers can investigate Williamsburg’s colonial capital along with the archaeologists.
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"Caesar’s Story: 1759"
The life of a slave doing backbreaking work in the fields dramatically changes when his new master, a childhood playmate, chooses Caesar to be his personal servant and live in the big house away from his family.
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"Colonial America:
A Complete Theme Unit Developed in Cooperation with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Grades 4–5"
A look at colonial Americans at work; manners, morals, law, and government; daily life; and digging through the past. Includes a colonial capital poster and hands-on-activities.
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"Colonial Colors"
A board book of eight colorful colonial objects which illustrate primary colors for very young children.
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"D Is for Drums "
Shoes and soldiers, toys and tailors, undergarments and unicorns—this alphabetical tour of colonial times is full of surprises. Dozens of interesting and unexpected objects, animals, buildings, and people appear on these pages.
"Down on the Farm: A Sticker Adventure with Prince"
A companion to the popular exhibition at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
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"Duel in the Wilderness"
A novel that tells the true story of young Major George Washington's journey to deliver a message from the king of England to the French commanders in the Ohio wilderness.
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"Good Children Get Rewards
A Story of Williamsburg in Colonial Times"
Tom and Ann follow clues from a rebus found in their father’s shop and discover ways to help their neighbors in colonial Williamsburg.
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"If You Lived in Williamsburg in Colonial Days"
Young readers learn about daily life in eighteenth-century Williamsburg.
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"John’s Story, 1775"
It is 1775 and tensions between England and the American colonies are high. Virginians disagree on whether to declare independence. John is torn between the two people he admires most -- his father and his older brother. Can they both be right?
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"Maria’s Story: 1773"
When her father dies, nine-year-old Maria has to look after her three little brothers while her mother carries on her father's work — writing and publishing the "Virginia Gazette" newspaper.
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"Mary Geddy’s Day: A Colonial Girl in Williamsburg"
Traces the activities and feelings of a ten-year-old girl in Williamsburg on May 15, 1776, when the colony of Virginia votes for independence from Great Britain.
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"Mystery of the Blue-Gowned Ghost"
Teenager Kelly Brennan is spending the summer in Williamsburg with Aunt Alma when odd occurrences — rustling noises in the night, a portrait that moves around, the scent of lilacs in the air — make Kelly think something strange is going on.
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"Nancy’s Story: 1765"
Twelve-year-old Nancy Geddy is concerned that the regulations of the Stamp Act will cause her friend Tom to lose his job as an apprentice at her family’s foundry.
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"Pirate Chase"
Timothy Baillie is captured while sailing to school in England and is forced to serve with the crew of the most notorious pirate of the age — Blackbeard.
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"Red Thunder "
Inspired by the true story of James Lafayette, a slave-turned-spy, John Hunter’s novel follows the adventures of the young Nate Chandler, James, and Nate’s huge dog.
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"Revolutionary City"
Colonial Williamsburg’s popular street theater program is now a colorful comic book!
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"The Colonial Williamsburg Coloring Book"
Children of all ages will enjoy coloring or painting the thirty-four delightful drawings.
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"The Folk Art Coloring Book"
Twenty-five artworks at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum suitable for three- to five-year-olds to color.
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"The Folk Art Counting Book:
From the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum"
Beginning readers can start at one whirligig and quickly count up to five weather vanes, ten jungle animals, and twenty eagles. The colorful images are from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum.
Published in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers
40 pp., 41 color illustrations, 10 x 8
1991; 2nd printing 1992
CW No. 241372
Hardbound
ISBN 0-87935-084-9
$9.95
"The Mouse and the Mill and the Bottle Babies"
Two charmingly illustrated read-aloud Colonial Williamsburg tales for young children.
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"The Nutmeg Adventure"
Adventures of young Jonah Sims, who buys three nutmegs for his mother, barely escapes being trampled by a runaway horse, loses a nutmeg, and is chased by a greedy goose.
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"The Tricorn Hat Tour: A Coloring Book of Colonial Williamsburg"
Scenes of people and places in Colonial Williamsburg allow young artists to "tour" the Historic Area.
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"Will’s Story: 1771"
Dilemma facing the son of the gaoler, as he suspects an imprisoned slave he has befriended is planning his escape.
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