The American Book Of Fables Is An America 250 Roadtrip From Your Porch Swing |
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The American Book Of Fables Is An America 250 Roadtrip From Your Porch Swing
The new America 250 commemorative volume, The American Book of Fables, motors imaginations through breathtaking U.S. history and geography.
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Many families I know are cutting summer road trips due to the highest gas prices many of us have ever seen. That’s especially sad given this national semiquincentennial should be the year of extra roadtrips to visit historical and commemorative sites and activities. The United States has such breathtakingly distinct landscapes, completely unlike any other place in the world.
Even those whose inflation-decimated budgets can still accommodate road trips will appreciate the opportunity to take a special one through history with their children or grandchildren for less than it costs to fill up our best-gas-mileage car in these days of ominous $4.50 gallons. The massive new commemorative volume, The American Book of Fables by Matthew Mehan and illustrated by John Folley, motors imaginations through America old and new. It’s out May 19, but you can preorder now, and that helps the book gain visibility with other readers!
Fables is a fanciful, illustrated family American history reader. Mehan surrounds an extremely good collection of original documents and excerpts from U.S. history with a frame narrative — that is, his original story about a collection of animals going on a quest across America that uncovers and embeds numerous documents, folk tales, and poems old and new. Folley illustrates this quest with beautiful sketches, oils, and watercolors.
This is a book big enough to reflect the United States’ breadth — more than an inch thick, in a gold-foil-stamped heirloom hardcover. Even so, I had to continually hunt for it among the places my children roam, because everyone from the five-year-old to the fourteen-year-old kept stealing it from........