Sleds on Boston Common by Louise Bordon
The name of the book attracted me first as we would drive by the hills.
1774 Dec. 24, Civil war times and a 9 year old boy wants to sled down the common's hill.
The soldiers were camped on the Boston Commons hills. The children still had
to go to school and they attempted to sled down the commons...
Harbor is closed and the townsfolk didn't like the interruptions in their town.
The soldiers would cut down fences and trees for their fires in the camps.
Love that the children learn not only math and English but navigation skills!
Love the facts I learn about this place: a wishing stone. Loved learning about the architecture
there and will look for the red brick Provence house-weather vane on the cupola golden Indian archer next time I'm there.
The troops had also cut into the pond so they couldn't even skate.
Henry Price talked to General Gage. He told him the commons were for the public
and how they can't use the sled runs. The general listens and directs the troops what to do.
It's Henry's birthday also...
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device). ( )

This is a fictionalized account of an event that (maybe) actually happened. The story has been told often enough - I heard it long before this book was published - about a group of children who sent a delegation to the British General encamped on their sledding hill, asking him politely to move so they could still sled there, but all the details in this book are made up to fill the sketchy story that's been passed down.

The pictures are simple and engaging, the story is inspiring, and it involves sledding... as well as the lesson that the people you dislike and fear, who are your enemies, still are people inside. ( )

This is the story of a boy named Henry Price, and his friends who live in Boston during the revolutionary war period. They are less concerned with the politics of the was than they are with doing the activities children enjoy. When the newly arrived British troops arrive in anticipation of the revolution, they occupy the prime sled runs in the city, and break the ice of skating ponds. Henry price demonstrates bravey by asking General Gage to allow him and his friends the opportunity to enjoy their activities. Henry discovers that the General was deserving of the children's respect

Lesson 10 - Tensions Grow Between the Colonies and Great Britain