Alice Dalgliesh

Remembering her mother's words, an eight-year-old girl finds courage to go alone with her father to build a new home in the Connecticut wilderness and to stay with the Indians when her father goes back to bring the rest of the family.

A Pilgrim family's struggle to survive in their harsh new homeland culminates in a thanksgiving feast.

Events in the life of Columbus, the Admiral, including his efforts to obtain ships and money to sail to the West, his first voyage, and his discovery of the New World.

Christmas stories arranged to celebrate the first Christmas, to recount tales of wonder, to describe early American festivities, and to tell of Christmas in other lands. Includes works by such authors as Alice Dalgliesh, Kenneth Grahame, Katherine Milhous, Eric P. Kelly, and Rachel Field.

A brief history of the sea exploration important to the discovery of America and her first settlements.

A young boy sent on an errand over Hemlock Mountain is not so sure he likes going alone, because there may be bears on the mountain, but with the help of the big iron pot he borrows, he completes his errand.