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Title: History for Kids: The Battle of Bunker Hill
Author: Charles River Editors
Narrator: Tracey Norman
Format: Unabridged
Length: 29 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-09-17
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Kids, Ages 5-7
Publisher's Summary:
Includes accounts of the fighting written by witnesses and soldiers.
In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way.
On April 19, 1775, the "shot heard 'round the world" was fired at Lexington, officially starting the Revolutionary War between the colonists and the British Empire. Though Lexington and Concord were the scenes of the first fighting, contingency plans had been made on both sides for war, and immediately after the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the colonial militia men who had poured in from across the countryside converged on Boston, which at the time was a peninsula with a small neck attaching it to the rest of Massachusetts. With the Charles River surrounding it on three sides, Boston was an ideal city to lay siege to.
Initially, the militias blocked off the land approaches to Boston, but when 4,500 more British soldiers arrived by sea, the American forces fell back to adjacent hills on the Charlestown Peninsula, Breed's Hill and Bunker Hill. At this time, the colonists and colonial forces were still unclear of their ultimate goals; the Second Continental Congress would not formally declare independence for another year.
Members Reviews:
A Good Effort - perhaps
It may be the nature of this series - I've only read a few - but if you're looking for a contextual understanding of this famous military engagement, look for something else. On the positive side, you WILL find a few constructive maps of the battle, several VERY nice primary document letters, brief to fair references about the lives/actions of individual American/British soldiers/generals and fascinating material regarding the life/death of American patriot Dr Joseph Warren. On the negative side, it is difficult to understand the book's intended audience. Beyond it's aspiration to be "history for kids"- the length puts it beyond the picture book category, while the language seems to "talk down" to middle grade students. In sum, despite the fact that some interesting details can be gleaned and used to augment presentations by classroom teachers, the Battle of Bunker Hill barely pushes my rating to one star.
Love This!
I love history so much, especially the Civil War and whenever I see anything that is about that period of time, I grab it very quickly. Nice short book with lots of good information.
THE LIFE CHANGING SUMMARYS
I think this is a good book for kids because in has real summary of the person's life of ear.
This a review of a kid.
The battle of Bunker Hill
Amazing American dream for all people who love army books and I will read it again if I read it again I would love it all over again!
Battle of bunker hill
I think this book was great but I think it should be a little longer
but still it deserves a 4 star rating but this is coming from a 9 year old