Jane Yolen - Plymouth Rocks!: The Stone-Cold Truth
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The history of Plymouth Rock is explained--by the rock itself. Playful, clever verses offer a comprehensive window into the events leading up to the 1620 landing and beyond, dispelling common misconceptions along the way. Alternating with Rocks poems is a witty analysis of the truthfulness of its statements, told in the voice of the Fact Checker. Truly a book for todays savvy media consumers.
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For Amelia and LeoS. S.
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Names: Yolen, Jane, author. | Streed, Sam, illustrator.
Title: Plymouth rocks: the stone-cold truth / Jane Yolen; illustrated by Sam
Streed.
anniversary of the Pilgrims landing in Massachusetts. | Includes
bibliographical references. | Summary: In humorous verse Plymouth Rock
tells the story of itself, from glacial erratic to national iconwith historical
asides and corrections by a fact checker.
9781580896856 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781632898326 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Historic sitesUnited StatesJuvenile fiction. | National
monumentsUnited StatesHistoryJuvenile fiction. | Stories in
rhyme. | Humorous stories. | Plymouth Rock (Plymouth, Mass.)Juvenile
fiction. | Plymouth (Mass.)HistoryJuvenile fiction. | CYAC: Stories in
rhyme. | Plymouth Rock (Plymouth, Mass.)Fiction. Massachusetts
HistoryFiction. | Humorous stories. | LCGFT: Stories i rhyme. |
Humorous fiction.
DDC 813.54 [E]dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019008772
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/20190108522
Display type set in Old Claude by LetterPerfect Design
Text type set in Lazy Vermont by Lazy Dog Foundry
Color separations by Colourscan Print Co Pte Ltd, Singapore
Printed by 1010 Printing International Limited in Huizhou, Guangdong, China
Production supervision by Brian G. Walker
Designed by Diane M. Earley and Sam Streed
and rather well known.
But everything told
is not set in stone.
Not all of it true.
Not all of it false.
Its now up to you.
discuss, and choose.
Some call it fiction.
Some call it news.
always speak true. So I will check the facts. If
Rocks statements are misstatements, alternative
facts, fabulations, or just plain lies, my red pen
will let you know.
In fact I wandered all around.
Erratic, I am sometimes called.
A glacial friend just let me fall,
left me there and moved away.
I havent seen it since that day.
(I really hope that its okay!)
Plymouth Rock is a granodiorite, a rock similar to granite.
More than six hundred million years ago, Rock was part of a
larger granodiorite that was carried away by a glacier. When
the glacier melted, Rock dropped off and got left behind.
from has been found forty miles away from Plymouth.
Thats really close in glacial terms! (Not very far
in human terms either . )
Most glaciers travel less
than half a mile per year.
woolly mammoths came my way.
Rubbed their tails on my backside.
My, those creatures sure were wide.
did come across the Bering Strait to North America.
Though most of their bones have been found in the
Dakotas, a few remains of mammoths have been found
closer to the East Coast.
in Cape Cod. So maybe one or two wandered that far?
Or maybe their fossilized bones got dropped by some
kind of erratic rock. We just dont know yet.
deer and elk galore.
An occasional snake for shivers sake,
though after a while it, too, proved a bore.
A stones life has but few adventures.
A rock, a rolland little more.
there were also wandering raccoons, wolves,
turkeys, rabbits, porcupines, shorebirds, and
the occasional bear looking for a mate.
Their children sometimes tried to climb me.
Their fires kept me warm and toasty,
cooking dinners that were roasty.
But alas, I do not eat,
and so I never tasted meat.
of the Eastern Woodlands have inhabited the
area for more than 12,000 years, thousands of years
before the Pilgrims arrived. Back then many tribes,
including Wampanoag, Patuxet, Mohegan, Pequot,
Narragansett, Nauset, and others, lived in the
area. Some of them live there to this day.
on occasion caught my eye.
Their color, clothes, and tongue seemed strange.
Even a Rock can note that change.
Different people, same old ground.
An old world lost. A new one found.
Settlers didnt just find a new world, they
colonized it. After taking over the southern
part of the East Coast, many English, French,
and Spanish settlers traveled north.
slate, a New World in which they could create a new
future for themselves. The newcomers thought of Europe
as the Old World and brought over aspects of their
cultures, histories, and religions. The Native people,
however, had lived in the Americas for thousands of
years and did not consider their world new.
which dramatically reduced the Native American
population. Much of this started well before
the Mayflower ever set sail.
Its how IRockcame to be branded.
The disembarkers stepped on me,
first footfalls toward their liberty.
I always keep this thought in mind:
What a big step for humankind.
overboard! Open the foldout
for the true story.
passengers anchored at the tip of what we now
call Cape Cod. Ship's master, Christopher Jones,
took a small group of the colony leaders to explore
the coast. Eventually they found a better harbor,
named Plymouth, and returned to the Mayflower.
The ship sailed to Plymouth, where the
passengers began their new lives.
harbor
for the settlers, but it sure wasnt a positive step for
the indigenous people who already lived there.
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