By weaving her chatty, narrative text with her incredibly detailed artwork, award-winning author-illustrator Cheryl Harness makes readers feel as though they are …

By weaving her chatty, narrative text with her incredibly detailed artwork, award-winning author-illustrator Cheryl Harness makes readers feel as though they are part of the adventure.

Students will discover all sorts of things they never knew before: that a teenage boy almost blew up the Mayflower and that the first Indian the Pilgrims met greeted them in English! They'll learn more serious things, too: all about why they came, the hardships they suffered, the people they met, and the successes they achieved.

National Geographic Children's Books introduces a brand new series from award winning author and illustrator of more than 35 books, Cheryl Harness. Eight exciting tales will …

National Geographic Children's Books introduces a brand new series from award winning author and illustrator of more than 35 books, Cheryl Harness. Eight exciting tales will combine Harness's conversational narratives with detail-rick pen-and0-in drawings to transport middle-grade readers on a 300-year magic carpet ride through American history. Each volume draws on a primary source, making history come alive for the reader. Illustrated maps and a timeline place each subject in the context of world events.

Cheryl Harness Histories

• The Adventurous Life of Myles Standish
• The Tragic Tale of Narcissa Whitman
• The Remarkable Rough-Riding Life of Theodore Roosevelt
• The Trailblazing Life of Daniel Boone
• The Ground-breaking, Chance-Taking Life of George Washington Carver
• The Literary Adventures of Washington Irving

Picture Book Biographies

• The Remarkable Benjamin Franklin
• George Washington
• The Revolutionary John Adams
• Young Abe Lincoln: The Frontier Days, 1809–1837
• Abe Lincoln Goes to Washington, 1837–1865
• Thomas Jefferson