Going West

by Jean Van Leeuwen

Book Overview

Award-winning author Jean Van Leeuwen tells the moving story of a pioneer family during the Westward Expansion One day in early spring they packed everything they had into our wagon, and set out to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803710275
• ISBN13: 9780803710276
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Dial Books
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 10.8" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

The book has not been well researched.

The story is nicely told and the illustrations are beautifully done, but there are details that concern me from a historical point-of-view. Where do they find logs big enough for the walls of a cabin on the prairie? Instead the author should have had them build a sod house. Also, there would not be room to ride in the wagon or to sleep in it. It would be too crammed with goods and food. Usually the children, except for very little ones, walked. The family slept outside. These were very narrow and cramped wagons.