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Life In Colonial America Coloring Book

Confronted by a hostile environment, lack of food and other necessities, and numerous other hardships, colonial American settlers nevertheless persevered to establish a foothold on the new continent. Artist Peter Copeland chronicles this stirring drama in a broad portrayal of life in colonial America before 1776. Forty-four detailed, accurate ready-to-color illustrations depict early 17th-century colonists arriving from Europe on wooden sailing vessels, encounters with Native Americans, the Spanish settlement at St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565; the thriving Dutch colony of New Amsterdam on Manhattan island (1653), an early Pennsylvania farm home, the deck of a slave ship, a frontier fort, a colonial kitchen, the Deerfield massacre of 1704, French voyageurs in the Northwest (1730), a stage wagon and river ferry (1770), a Spanish priest in California (1771), a militia muster of 1775, the signing of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and much more. Descriptive captions for the illustrations provide youngsters with brief history lessons as they color exciting scenes of early American life in this entertaining and educational coloring book.

Dover Original. 44 black-and-white illustrations. Introduction. Captions. 48pp. 8 1/2" X x 11", Saddlewired, January 2002.

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