{"id":40645,"date":"2024-07-19T21:49:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T01:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=40645"},"modified":"2024-07-19T21:49:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T01:49:23","slug":"review-of-why-longfellow-lied-by-jeff-lantos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=40645","title":{"rendered":"Review of Why Longfellow Lied, by Jeff Lantos"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Why Longfellow Lied<\/p>\n

The Truth About Paul Revere\u2019s Midnight Ride<\/em><\/p>\n

by Jeff Lantos<\/p>\n

Charlesbridge, 2021. 134 pages.
\nReview written January 7, 2022, from a library book
\nStarred Review<\/p>\n

My plan was to read this book a little bit at a time, but once I started, it was hard to stop! It takes Henry Wadsworth Longfellow\u2019s famous poem, \u201cPaul Revere\u2019s Ride\u201d stanza by stanza and tells us what really happened on that fateful night that the Revolutionary War began. <\/p>\n

But Longfellow made it a poem about one hero, Paul Revere, when actually a long list of people were involved in warning the colonists. So the author also looks at the question of why Longfellow took so much poetic license? What was he trying to accomplish with this poem? (Hint: It was written just before the Civil War began.)<\/p>\n

Now, kids today may not be familiar with the famous poem. The author takes care of that by printing it at the front of the book. And the words do have a ring to them. Then he takes the poem a little at a time and tells us what actually happened that night, from revealing the actual mastermind behind the mission to telling us about Paul Revere\u2019s capture before he ever got to Concord. <\/p>\n

It turns out that was a momentous and exciting night in American history. The book is filled with plenty of paintings, maps, sidebars, engravings, photographs, and other artefacts. I now have a much better understanding of April 18-19, 1775, than I ever got in History class. Super interesting and informative. And it will help kids think critically about history.<\/p>\n

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Disclaimer: I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n

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Why Longfellow Lied The Truth About Paul Revere\u2019s Midnight Ride by Jeff Lantos Charlesbridge, 2021. 134 pages. Review written January 7, 2022, from a library book Starred Review My plan was to read this book a little bit at a time, but once I started, it was hard to stop! It takes Henry Wadsworth Longfellow\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-nonfiction-review","category-history","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40645"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44065,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40645\/revisions\/44065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}