Colonial Crafts

by Bobbie Kalman

Book Overview

Colonial Crafts introduces young readers to the craftspeople who created useful works of art by hand. Children will find out how the artisans learned their trades through many years of apprenticeship, as their masters did before them, and gain an appreciation of the beautiful handmade objects that have lasted more than two hundred years. Visit the workshops of: - the wheelwright - the cooper - the founder - the shoemaker - the milliner - the gunsmith...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865054908
• ISBN13: 9780865054905
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.7" x 11.1"
• Age Range: 3 years and up
• Grade Range: Preschool and higher

Customer Reviews

History for young readers just doesn't get any better than this!

For young students of colonial American history, or as preparation for a visit to a living history museum, Bobbie Kalman has presented an amazingly entertaining overview of crafts and the people who do them. Almost like a visit to Colonial Williamsburg, readers will explore the cabinetmaker, gunsmith, silversmith, wigmaker, milliner and much more! The book is lavishly illustrated with photographs of costumed historical interpreters in authentic settings and written in a lively style that is sure to captivate students. Like all of Bobbie Kalman's wonderful books, Colonial Crafts is not to be missed!