Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims

There is a series of the Rush Revere books, and the series have a character named Rush Revere, and a talking horse named Liberty, that can time travel back in time, and both go back in history events that happened in America. “Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims” is the first book of the series, and is about when Rush Revere substitutes a class in a middle school and brings a time traveling horse, Liberty. They teach the class about the Mayflower, pilgrims settling, and the first Thanksgiving by going back to that time and they record what there doing back in pilgrims time so the students think it’s a movie. Soon Two students find out what actually happened and come along with him for the rest of the history lessons. 

My opinion on this book is that it is a good book to find out the basics of American history without it being hard to read and understand. This book also is a fun and interesting way to learn about history. I like how this book shows gratitude that the event of the Mayflower and the pilgrims happened the way it did, instead of criticize that event in history. This book is a safe way to learn about the Mayflower, Pilgrims settling, and the first thanksgiving. I wish this book would stop using using movie stories comparison in the book because it makes it very kiddish or less fun to read the book if that is the humor most of the time. 

This book has good questions to get readers thinking and be more involved into history by having the characters in the book ask questions like “why do you think….. happened,” or “why do you think……” I also like how this book has the characters ask not only to each other or to themselves, but ask questions to the people in the Mayflower or when settling, like why they would leave their home and still continue in hard times and the person, for example William Bradford, would explain to them what he felt. By the characters doing this and going back in time as if they were part of it and actually reviewing the pilgrims, I feel like it helps the reader understand more than why they did it, but helps them understand how hard it was for these pilgrims. And how much it meant for them to do this, also how most of the time they were determined to do the right thing, and how important it was for them to follow, stand true, and be free to God and religion. This book is really a good way to get the reader more involved in history. I like how they have more history facts that are presented in a fun way, where one character tells the other character the fact instead of just telling the facts out strait.  

This book makes history fun and less miserable to learn a little bit about history. Reading the first book of the Rush Revere series has me more excited about reading the other books in these series and is a book that can get readers eager to read the next. I do recommend this book.