If You Grew Up With George Washington

by Gross, Ruth Belov; Mccully, Emily Arnold

• ISBN13: 9780590451550
• ISBN10: 0590451553
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-01-01
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Summary

This book tells you what it was like to live in Virginia during the colonial times of the 1730's and 1740's.

Author Biography

Emily Arnold McCully has illustrated more than one hundred books for children, and has published two novels. She is an avid reader, gardener, cook, and tennis player, and the mother of two grown sons, Nat and Ted.

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(10)
What kind of house did George Washington live in when he was a little boy?	10	(2)
Where was the cooking done?	12	(1)
What about the bathroom?	13	(1)
How did people light the house at night?	14	(1)
What did children do to have fun?	15	(5)
Did they read books?	20	(1)
How did grown-ups have fun?	20	(2)
Where did visitors sleep?	22	(2)
Would you go to school?	24	(2)
What kind of school did George Washington go to?	26	(1)
What would you learn in school?	27	(1)
What if you didn't go to school?	28	(3)
Why didn't girls learn as much as boys?	31	(1)
What kind of food would you eat?	32	(1)
Did everyone have enough to eat?	33	(1)
Would you have good manners when you ate?	33	(3)
What kind of clothes would you wear?	36	(2)
Where would you keep your clothes?	38	(1)
What did little children wear?	39	(5)
Were there any Indians?	44	(1)
How did people get around in Virginia?	45	(4)
Were there places to stay overnight when you were traveling?	49	(1)
Could you hear the news on radio or TV?	50	(1)
How did people get their mail?	51	(1)
What kind of money did people use in Virginia?	52	(2)
How did people carry their tobacco around?	54	(1)
Who made the laws for the colony?	55	(3)
Did everyone vote?	58	(1)
Did a man have to be rich to own land?	58	(1)
Did a man have to be rich to get elected?	58	(1)
What were some of the laws in Virginia?	59	(1)
Did they have doctors when George Washington was a young boy?	60	(1)
What happened when you got sick?	61