![]() ![]() ![]() The book is a straightforward tale in that it focuses on Squanto’s experience, at least as best as it can be understood from the historical record. Mind you, that is a difficult challenge, but in this short and often melancholy book, the author manages to succeed at this task, at least to my satisfaction, in providing accessible and factual writing that manages to convey historical truth without falling prey to easy point-scoring against descendants of European colonists. ![]() Now, to be sure, I had a great deal more faith in this book doing it right than I would in many other cases because I am deeply familiar with and highly appreciative of the author’s work as a whole and knew that this children’s book presented an opportunity for him to write something that was both accessible to children as well as in accordance with the historical record in a way that would prompt further interest and reading on behalf of readers without succumbing to the plague of political correctness. It is hard to tell how much a book is going to delve into some of the deeper and more problematic aspects of the fateful meeting between Squanto and the Pilgrims. Squanto And The Miracle Of Thanksgiving, by Eric Metaxas, illustrated by Shannon StirnweisĪs someone who cares a great deal about the keeping of and memory of Thanksgiving, I find books about Thanksgiving to be intriguing and worthy of reflection. ![]()
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