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 find a new home. Sleeping under the stars, weathering terrible storms, and fording swollen rivers, Hannah and her family made the journey of a lifetime.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140560963
• ISBN13: 9780140560961
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 10.4" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 2 to 5 years

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.