To accompany our history studies in our homeschool, I read Pocahontas and the Strangers by Clyde Robert Bulla. But, although I had intend to read it aloud to my son (age 5) as well, but we didn’t get to it. Bulla’s story is the romanticized story of Pocahontas saving John Smith’s life. I liked reading it, but I did not feel it was remarkable. My son got the same information by watching a cartoon movie about Pocahontas (from the Animated Hero Classics series). Bulla’s writing is formulaic and was somewhat boring to me, but it is at just the right level for a second or third grade reader to read himself.
Our homeschool American History learning happened to correlate to the Thanksgiving Holiday! We recently finished learning about the pilgrims, which works out very well for us since we’re taking the next week slow, as a holiday from lots of school work. But before we got the pilgrims, though, we read a few books about Jamestown.
