Three Young Pilgrims

by Harness, Cheryl; Harness, Cheryl

• ISBN13: 9780027426434
• ISBN10: 0027426432
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-09-30
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Summary

In these richly detailed pages, you'll meet three of the young Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower, Bartholomew, Remember, and Mary Allerton.

When Bartholemew, Remember, and Mary Allerton and their parents first step down from the Mayflower after sixty days at sea, they never dream that life in the New World will be so hard. Many in their Plymouth colony won't make it through the winter, and the colony's first harvest is possible only with the help of two friends, Samoset and Squanto.

Richly detailed paintings show how the pilgrims lived after landing at Plymouth, through the dark winter and into the busy days of spring, summer, and fall. Culminating with the excitement of the original Thanksgiving feast, Three Young Pilgrims makes history come alive.

Author Biography

"The more you read about the Pilgrims, the more you realize how interesting they were," says Cheryl Harness, who began her research by "going to the children's library and gathering up everything I could find." Then she read William Bradford's journals and was gripped by his first-person accounts. Jean Poindexter Colby's book, Plimoth Plantation, Then and Now, gave her the idea to go there.

"Nothing," Cheryl Harness says, "prepares you for how cold and lonely it is by the edge of the sea. I wanted to recreate as best I could how the Pilgrims actually lived, and I felt very fortunate to be able to visit Plimoth Plantation, a living history museum where people try to simulate the experience of living in past times."

Oddly enough, the author-illustrator broke into children's books several years ago with a jacket painting for Patricia Clapp's Pilgrim novel, Constance. She's subsequently illustrated several picture books with contemporary settings, such as Aaron's Shirt by Deborah Gould, published by Bradbury Press.

Cheryl Harness and her two basset hounds and two cats live in a ninety-year-old house in an old neighborhood in Colorado Springs, Colorado.