Pilgrim Book
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008Almost Home
A Story based on the life of The Mayflower’s Mary Chilton
by Wendy Lawton
Not every book I read is a thick tome. I get children’s books as well, and this was one of them. It’s for older kids, as it isn’t a picture book, but is a simple read. It is part of a “Daughters of Faith Series,” though I haven’t seen any of the rest of the series.
It is a nice little story based, as the subtitle indicates, on the life of one of the actual children on the Mayflower. It does a nice job of telling about the circumstances the family went through, both in their native England and then in Holland, being the ones taunted and threatened because of their faith.
It’s nice to have a “back story,” for children to read, as in school the whole “why they came to America” seems to be about two sentances long, and rushed over to talk about their landing in the New World and the events that followed. This is a serious, but not boring (like a history textbook) or frightening story, and was a quick read. And as someone who had relatives on the Mayflower and The Rose, it was pretty interesting on a personal level.