Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

For the last several months, my children and I have been immersed in the adventures of Mr. Bowditch from boyhood to respected manhood. I love the person that he is and the example that he creates. For months, I have seen other parents talk about how sad this book is, but we never felt that. Yes, people die, it was a historical time of short lifespans and dangerous professions and disease, but there is so much hope. There is joy in the small places and such intelligence to share with anyone with an ear willing to hear. I really enjoyed this book and my children loved the adventure as well. I'm wondering now if we should travel off on other journeys by boat and ship or continue along our merry historical way. There was definitely a fire of creativity lit with this novel for us all.

I own a nice classic paperback copy of this book which we read along in the schedule from BookShark Reading with History, Level 3, now known as Core D Introduction to American History part 1.