Adèle & Simon in America - Barbara McClintockFrancis Foster Books
ISBN: 0-374-39924-7
My rating: 4.5 out of 5
“Adèle & Simon in America” is about a brother and sister in early 20th century France who go on a trip across America with their Aunt Cécile. She tells her nephew to be careful and not lose anything on their trip, but he inevitably does anyway.
I really enjoyed this book. It has a nice, simple story that exposes children to various parts of the U.S. and what was going on there at that time. In the back of the book is an index that tells historical facts of each place the trio visited as well as what is going on in each illustration. The illustrations are done incredibly well and are richly detailed. Students will have no trouble at all identifying what is going on.
Even though this book is written for young children, this could easily be used for older children when discussing U.S. geography or history. “Adèle & Simon in America” is a book I would strongly recommend getting.
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