The 18 Penny Goose: I Can Read Book S.

Gr. 1^-3. The time is 1778, during the War for American Independence, and Letty's family must flee their New Jersey farm because the British soldiers are raiding for food. Letty cannot bear to leave behind her beloved goose, Solomon, and in desperation she leaves the soldiers a letter begging them not to harm her pet. When the family returns home, there's a note from the soldiers, who spared Solomon and hung a pouch around his neck with British pennies as payment for the other geese they ate. Beier's watercolour illustrations on every page express the child's experience: the terror of the war at home and the tenderness of the pet story. Hazel Rochman --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.