The Lady in the Blue Cloak: Legends from the Texas Missions

by Eric A. Kimmel

Book Overview

For each mission in Texas, there is a rich and complicated history. Now Kimmel retells six of these legends about four Texas missions. In the title story, a mysterious woman in blue visits the Tejas... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823417387
• ISBN13: 9780823417384
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Holiday House
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.5" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 6 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 4

Customer Reviews

Older Children Will Enjoy this History

Written for a slightly older reader, ages 6 to 10, "The Lady in the Blue Cloak: Legends from the Texas Missions" contains six chapters and many more words than pictures. Based on truth as well as legend, this book contains a bit of violence and a couple of ghosts. A story set at the East Texas mission San Francisco de los Tejas in Nacogdoches opens the book. Other chapters center around the San Antonio missions San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo with it's Rosa's Window, Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception of Acuna, and the Mission of San Antonio de Valero, now called the Alamo. At the back of the book is a Texas Missions Time Line. I liked that the author never condescends to his young audience. He strives to entertain but also engages the reader intellectually. The drawings and illustrations are visually stimulating, and in some cases, downright breathtaking.