EBOOK
About
You think history is boring? Baltimore kid Daniel does - until a chance encounter with a magical talking raven named Calvert sends him flying back to 1814, where he finds his home city under siege by a British army on the verge of defeating the United States of America in the War of 1812. The beautifully illustrated pages of Calvert the Raven in the Battle of Baltimore, the first book of the Flying Through History series, are as close as you can get to the Battle of Baltimore without going back in time yourself. Author and illustrator J. Scott Fuqua takes you on a harrowing journey through a history of near misses, narrow escapes, and brave soldiers with no idea what tomorrow would bring. When you're flying through history, history is never boring.
Related Subjects
Reviews
"Daniel has gotten a poor mark on has paper about the War of 1812. Maybe it's because he thought the subject was so boring. Enter Calvert, a talking - make that wise-cracking - raven who flies Daniel back to the war, where he can see for himself the intensity of battle. This oversize offering has some strong points. The breezy tone and plenty of dialogue will draw in readers, and the dramatic, wel
Booklist
"If we're honest with ourselves, we can all probably remember back to a childhood instance when we felt insufferably bored by a grade-school history textbook. It wasn't the history that that was boring―it was reading about it in those dry pages peppered with long-ago dates and unfamiliar names. Well, guess what? The textbooks are still like that, and today's kids are still bored. Author Jonathon S
Aaron Henkin, producer, WYPR-FM (an NPR news station)
Extended Details
- SeriesFlying Through History #1