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Indiana History: A Booklist for Fourth Grade

Winnie Adler and Dianne Lawson, Youth Librarians Tippecanoe County Public Library Lafayette, IN

Presenting our Hoosier heritage to connections, and other works which Indiana youngsters is a joy that have chapters on Eastern Woodland parents, teachers and librarians or Indiana Indians. Only four Lincoln share. Unfortunately, although biographies are cited in the "Famous Indiana history is studied in fourth People" section although there are grade, many of the materials that others which are appropriate. would be useful to youthful research­ ers are at a much higher level. To General Works help meet the demand for lower level Indiana history materials, our youth • Bailey, Bernardine. Picture Book staff reviewed our collection and Of Indiana. Albert Whitman, 1966. created a topical list to guide students. • Britannica Junior. Encyclopedia Of course this booklist is based Britannica, Inc., 1976. chiefly on our own collection and • Crout, George. Where The although we have consistently sought Ohio Flows. Benefic Press, 1964. elementary-level Indiana materials, you may well own titles which we • Crump, Claudia. Indiana Yester­ lack. We hope this booklist will help day and Today. Silver Burdett, 1985. you as we all try to share the good • Fradin, Dennis B. Indiana In news about Indiana's past. Words and Pictures. Children's, 1980. The topical non-fiction list is not • McCall, Edith. Forts In The annotated as most of the titles are self Wilderness. Children's, 1980. expanatory. The six categories are based on subjects suggested by a • Peek, David T. Indiana Adven- fourth grade teacher and our experi­ ture. Ginn and Company, 1974. ence with fourth graders. Informa­ • People Who Made America. The tionon subjects such as statehood, United States History Society, Inc., Civil War, slavery, places of interest, 1973. colleges and universities, etc. is found in the general works. The "Indian • Rosenberg, Ethel. Living Indiana Life" section includes biographies of History. David-Stewart, 1973. Native Americans with Indiana • War Paint And Wagon Wheels: 54/ Indiana Libraries Stories Of Indiana And Pioneers. Pioneer Life David-Stewart, 1968. • Anderson, Joan. Christmas On Indian Life The Prairie. Ticknor & Fields, 1985. • Anderson, Joan. The Glorious • Deming, Therese 0. The Indian Fourth At Prairietown. Morrow, 1986. In Winter Camp. Laidlaw Bros., 1958. 0 Havighurst, Walter. The First • Fleischer, Jane. Tecumseh, Book of Pioneers: Northwest Territory. Shawnee War Chief. Troll Associ- F. Watts, 1959. ates, 1979. • Parish, Peggy. Let's Be Early • Gridley, Marion E. Pontiac. Settlers With Daniel Boone. Harper Putnam, 1970. & Row, 1967. • Johnston, Johanna.The Indians and the Strangers. Dodd, Mead, 1972. Famous People • Lamb, E. Wendell. Indian Lore. • Brandt, Keith. Abe Lincoln: The Light & Life Press, 1964. Young Years. Troll Associates, 1982. • Lamb E. Wendell. More Indian • D'Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar. Abra- Lore. Light & Life Press, 1968. ham Lincoln. Doubleday, 1957. • Martin, Patricia M. The First • Lowitz, Sadybeth. Barefoot Americans. Parents Magazine, 1970. Abe. Lerner, 1967. • Martini, Teri. Indians. • Martin, Patricia M. Abraham (New True Book) Children's, 1982. Lincoln. Putnam, 1964. • M.artini, Teri. The True Book • Miller, Helen M. George Rogers of Indians. Children's, 1954. Clark: Frontwr Fighter. Putnam, • Moyer, Jon. Famous Indian 1968. Chwfs. Donohue, 1957. • Peckham, Howard. William • Peckham, Howard. Pontiac: Young Henry Harrison: Young Tippecanoe. Ottawa Leader. Bobbs-Merrill, 1963. Bobbs, 1951. • Scheele, William E. The Mound • Schaaf, Martha. Lew Wallace: Builders. World Pub. Co., 1960. Boy Writer. Bobbs-Merrill, 1961. • Steele, William. Talking • Van Riper, Guernsey. Knute Bones: Secrets of Indian Burial Rockne: Young Athlete. Bobbs- Mounds. Harper & Row, 1978. Merrill,1959. • Stevenson, Augusta. Tecumseh: • Wilie, Katharine. George Shawnee Boy. Bobbs-Merrill, 1962. Rogers Clark: Boy of The Old North­ west. Bobbs-Merrill, 1958. • Warren, Elizabeth. I Can Read about the Indians. Troll Associates, Sports 1975. • Moore Jim. Indiana Pacers. • Watson, Jane W. The First Creatjve Education, 1984. Americans: Tribes Of North America. Pantheon, 1980. • Paulsen, Gary. Going Very Fast In a Circle - If You Don't Run Out of • Wayne, Bennett. Indian Patriots of Gas. Raintree, 1979. the Eastern Woodland. Garrard, 1976. Volume 8, Number 2 (1989) /55 • Rothhaus, James. The Indianapo- Jacques. Waveland Pr., 1977. This lis Colts. Creative Education, 1986. book is set at Fort Ouiatenon in the 1700s and is based on the author's • Wilkinson, Sylvia. Camp Cars. research as sheassisted in the ar­ Children's Press, 1981. chaeological dig at the Fort. Miscellaneous • Nolan, Jeannette C. Victory Drum. Messner, 1953. This is the story of a • Barton, Nancy. "Utopia: Ameri­ drummer boy serving with George can Dreams and Delusions" in Cobble­ Rogers Clark. stone Vol. 4, #4 April 1983, pp. 36-40. (Covers Robert Owen and New Har­ • Sentman, George. Drummer of mony) Vincennes. Winston, 1952. Malcolm Cartre goes as a drummer boy of • Carmer, Carl. The Boy Drum- Vincennes with George Rogers Clark. mer Of Vincennes (a story poem). Harvey House, 1972. • Sperry, Portia. Abigail. Whitman, 1938. Reprint 1972 • Potratz, Jean K. "The Voyageurs: Whitman. This story recounts Great Lakes Canoeists" in Cobble­ Abigail's trip to Indiana via covered stone, Vol. 9, #5, May 1988, pp. 18-20. wagon with her prized doll. A supplementary non-fiction list for • Mason, Miriam. Hominy and His fourth grade teachers (not included Blunt-Nosed Arrow. Macmillan, here) was compiled and distributed to 1950. This is the story of a Miami local schools. This list includes books Indian boy. at a higher reading level which teachers can use as reference sources • Mason, Miriam. Smiling Hill or adapt for classroom use. Farm. Ginn, 1937. This is the story of an Indiana farm and all the families Fiction who lived there from the first settlers in 181 7 to the mid-1930s. This is a chronological list of fiction set specifically in Indiana or in a • Douglas, Emily T. Appleseed midwestern state not specified but Farm. Abington, 1948. This book indistinguishable from Indiana. reveals the fear and hardship experi­ Fictional books can bring alive bare enced by our pioneers and also intro­ historical facts; they focus on people duces the authentic John Chapman and how they went about their work (Johnny Appleseed). and play. Since this booklist was • Hays, Wilma P. Abe Lincon's developed as an adjunct aid to histori­ Birthday. Coward, 1961. Read what cal study, the chronological order was happens on Abe's 12th birthday in this chosen as best suited to the subject book set in southern Indiana. material. These titles have been found in the TCPL collection or are • Mason, Miriam. Sara And The referred to in old booklists and bibliog­ Winter Gift. Macmillan, 1968. Meet raphies. Those books which we have a loving farm family in this charming not personally examined have been story of daily pioneer life. annotated as the listing source • Swayne, Sam. Great-Grandfather (booklist or bibliography) had them. In The Honey Tree. Wiking, 1949. It is our hope that these may exist in Legacy House, 1982. Although great­ collections somewhere in our state. grandfather's method of procuring • Lazarus, Keo. A Totem For Ti- food was not the usual pioneer method, this tall tale does present an 56/ Indiana Libraries accurate Indiana setting with actual Press, 1988. Olle moves to the Indi­ pioneer foods. Great fun! ana frontier in 1832. Based on an actual boy whose family cabin once • Eggleston, Edward. The Hoosier stoo~ on the current site of the Indi­ School Boy. Scribners, 1883. (Vari­ ana State Fairgrounds. This is a ous editions are available.) This book warm family story. tells about the triumphs and pitfalls of being the "newboy" in a small south­ • Judson, Clara. They Came From ern Indiana school. It is above level Scotland. Houghton, 1944. Re­ for grade four, but sections may be printed under the title Bruce Carries excerpted. The Flag, Follett, 1957. A Scottish family arrives in pioneer Indianapolis. • Nevin, Evelyn. Captive of the Delawares. Abingdon-Cokesbury, • Aldis, Dorothy. The Lucky Year. 1952. This is the story of Frances Rand McN ally, 1951. This story is set Slocum, a white girl raised by the in Madison, Indiana and includes Indians. Jenny Lind's visit in 1851. • Major, Charles. The Bears of Blue • Friermood, Elizabeth. The Wild River. Macmillan, 1901. This story Donahues. Doubleday, 1963. These tells of the adventures of a boy living are family adventures set in northern near Shelbyville in the early 1800s. It Indiana in the years just prior to and vividly shows the danger of pioneer during the Civil War. life and details of daily life and • Hunt, Mable L. Little Girl With environment. Seven Names. Lippincott, 1936. • Eth, Clifford. The Year Of The This gentle, humorous story is set in Three Legged Deer. Houghton Mif­ the 1860s and highlights Quaker life flin, 1972. Set in the Indiana fron­ and early schools. tier, this is the moving story of a trapper and his Indian bride. Their • Hunt, Mable L. Lucinda, A Little struggle against prejudice is told Girl of 1860. Lippincott, 1934. This is the story of a Quaker girl growing dramatically and authentically. up near Mooresville. • Mason, Mirian. Little Johnathan. Macmillan, 1944. Enjoy a humorous • Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. & family story with excellent characteri­ Grosset Dunlap, 1914. Tarkington was born in Indianapolis 1869, zation and a strong sense of daily life on the Indiana frontier. It's full of attended Purdue, and won the Pulit­ action and fun. zer in 1922 for Alice Adams. This series of Penrod books deals with the • Taylor, Florence. Towpath Andy. high jinks and Penrod, whose vivid 1939 (publisher unknown). Travel imagination causes trouble and with Andy on his trip down the adventure for himself and his friends. Wabash and Erie Canal through Logansport and Lafayette. • Hunt, Mable L. The Boy Who Had No Birthday. Lippincott, 1934. Set • Tague, Lola. Melissa And The in Indianapolis in the 1870s, this is a Valley Belle. Lothrop, 1965. This is pleasant story with an early city the exciting story of a race on the setting. Whitewater Canal. • Mason, Miriam. Miney And The • Henry, Joanne Landers. Log Cabin Blessing. Macmillan, 1961. This is a in The Woods. Originally published warm family story. Father goes to by Macmillan, reissued by Four winds fight in the Civil War and leaves mom Volume 8, Number 2 (1989) /57 and five children to carry on. Funny Thrasher is a modern Hoosier author and exciting, a good sense of day to who was born anq still lives in south­ day farm life in the 1860s is conveyed. ern Indiana. This first novel for children is the story of twelve year­ • Friermood, Elizabeth. The Wabash old Seely and the tempestuous year in Knows The Secret. Doubleday, 1951. which her family moved to the hills Set in Wabash County in the 1890s, of southern Indiana. The whole year the Wabash River helps Henrietta is full of deprivation and sorrow but solvethe mystery of her great­ Seely rises above it all in her appre­ grandfather's murder; an authentic ciation of the plant and animal life of and fast-paced story. rural southern Indiana. The sequel • North, Sterling. So Dear To My to Seely's story is told in Between Heart. Doubleday, 1947. This is the Dark and Daylight (Atheneum, 1979) story of ten year-old Jeremiah and life in which the family's attempted move on a small Indiana farm in 1903. out of the Depression area hills is thwarted by the breakdown of their • North, Sterling. Midnight And truck which forces them to take up Jeremiah. Winston, 1943. Set in temporary residence in an abandoned Pike County, this story of a boy and house. his pet lamb shows farm life and the importance of county fairs. • Tunis, John R. Yea! Wildcats. Harcourt, 1944. A young coach • Hunt, Mable L. Cupola House. grooms a formerly weak basketball Lippincott, 1961. This book is about team in to a winning dynamo. With a family living in a small Indiana this success comes pressure from town in 1906. orthodox businessmen, politicians and • Porter, Gene Stratton. Freckles. gamblers. The team's response to Doubleday, 1904. (various editions) these non-sport pressures is the meat Porter was born in rural Wabash of the story. County and moved to a cabin adjoin­ • Eth, Clifford. Help! I'm A ing the Limberlost swamp after she Prisoner In The Library. Hough ton married. There she studied the Mifflin,1968. This humorous story is swamp wildlife and wrote nature based on the great blizzard of 1977. articles and illustrated them with her own photography. Fame came to Mrs. Porter when Freckles was published Poetry in 1904. It told the story of a boy who • Adoff, Arnold. Tornado Poems. lived in the Limberlost swamp. It was Delacorte, 1977. Especially about the full of the zest of the open air and Xenia, Ohio tornado in 1974, this is a captured the spirit of the wild swamp very effective book for Midwesterners. she was so familiar with. Mrs. Porter wrote many books set in and around • Fleming, Alice. America Is Not All the Limberlost swamp. They charac­ Traffic Lights. Brown, 1976. These teristically are sentimental but well­ poems are about the Midwest. Though groomed in natural history. some are difficult, this is a strong collection with midwestern feelings. • Porter, Gene Stratton. Girl Of The Limberlost. Doubleday, 1909. This • Riley, James Whitcomb. Joyful is the famous story of a girl's adven­ Poems For Children. Bobbs-Merrill, tures in and on the homefront. 1946. Many of Riley's poems were written in a dialect dubbled Hoosier­ • Thrasher, Crystal. The Dark Didn't ese. Included in Joyful Poems For Catch Me. Atheneum, 1975. Children are several of his most 58/ Indiana Libraries famous poems such as "The Old Other Sources Swimmin' Hole," which glorifies the joys of lazy summers spent swimming. • Hinman, Dorothy and Zimmerman, This work also includes the autumn Ruth (editors). Readings For Young favorite "When The Frost Is On The People: The Midwest. ALA, 1979. Punkin" and "Little Orphant Annie." Fiction, non-fiction and biography can be found in this book. • Riley, James Whitcomb The Gobble-Uns'll Git You Ef You Don't • Laughlin, Sara (editor). Indiana Watch Out! Lippincott 1975. This is Children's Authors. Stone Hills an illustrated edition of "Little Or­ ALSA, 1986. This source lists Indiana phant Annie" with drawings by Joel children's authors and their published Schick. books.

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Mother Goose in Hieroglyphics. Philadelphia: George A. Appleton; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1849. Illustration courtesy of the Lilly Library Indiana University. '