POP! GOES THE WEASEL AND YANKEE DOODLE: New York City in 1776 and Today, with Songs and Pictures

by Robert Quackenbush ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 15, 1976

Today's besieged New Yorkers may or may not be consoled to learn that during the Revolution, ""New York suffered far much more/ Than Other cities in the war."" At any rate that's the refrain that Quackenbush adds to every verse of ""Pop Goes the Weasel,"" which he turns into a sort of local history lesson on the progress of the conflict in and around the city. ""Yankee Doodle,"" represented here with only two verses, becomes merely a coda celebrating Washington's victory parade through New York on November 25, 1783. Facing each other are ""then"" and ""now"" pictures in Quackenbush's characteristic strident style, all with factual captions. (""On September 16, 1776, Washington won the battle of Harlem Heights but he was forced out of New York by November."") Which gives you a lot to absorb as the pages turn, but it's a far straighter account than Kellogg's equally patriotic Yankee Doodle (p. 127).

Pub Date: March 15, 1976

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Lippincott

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1976

Categories: CHILDREN'S