The least substantial (in content) and youngest (in tone) of the three concurrent colonial history series is handicapped...

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THE VIRGINIA COLONY

The least substantial (in content) and youngest (in tone) of the three concurrent colonial history series is handicapped from the outset by its small print; otherwise this might have served, with its bits of dialogue and extended fictional inset, as a ""story"" for, say, fourth graders (even so, it should have had a map). As a superficial account of happenings the text is smooth enough if somewhat pappy (one chapter: ""The Pitiful Pioneers"") but it offers virtually no interpretation. The parallel volumes in the other series have not yet appeared; hopefully one or the other will be more suitable.

Pub Date: April 15, 1969

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Hawthorn

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1969

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