Books on The War of 1812
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I'm looking for book suggestions for The War of 1812 to add to our reading schedule.
Thanks Carol
Thanks Carol
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These are some that I have used, or read:
The Other Elizabeth by Karleen Bradford. It's a YA timeslip story in which a girl visiting a historical site on a school trip suddenly finds herself back in the midst of the war of 1812 -- sometimes rather amusing in that if Elizabeth had only paid more attention to Canadian history, she'd have a better idea of what was going on. Who won the battle of Crysler's farm anyway? That's going to be very important to her very soon. And here she thought history was boring.
The Rowboat War by Fred Swayze. Anything by the Swayzes is very readable YA Canadiana and they wrote about many facets of Canadian history.
Good Soldier: The Story of Isaac Brock by D. J. Goodspeed. Written in a direct, conversational style - brings Brock and his times to life for ages 10-13, in my opinion much more successfully than more recent, fictionalized books like the following (which nonetheless also has much to recommend it). I do like the fact that it is 100% historical too.
Jeremy's War 1812 by John Ibbotson. -- also published as simply "1812" but imagine the difficulties of touchstoning or searching that title, also as "1812, Jeremy and the General". YA historical fiction puts a young "colonial" in the position of batsman (personal servant) to General Isaac Brock. Fictional in that Brock's batsman was with him long before he came to Canada and outlived him. The book deals with some of the questions regarding the role of natives in the war of 1812, whether Brock was dealing in good faith. IF I recall correctly Ibbotson has Brock regretfully saying that he knows the Indians won't get what he is promisisng them. The First Nations really were abandoned by the British after the war and their concerns not considered in the treaty with the USA, but so were the Canadian settlers, Britain's interests were to avoid another war with the USA and to put the Napoleonic Wars behind them (to them the War of 1812 was, literally, a footnote to the Napoleonic Wars). I believe, based on what I know of his character, that Brock was dealing in good faith with Tecumseh and that if both -- or either -- of them had survived there would have been serious political pressure on the peace negotiators.
Rolf in the Woods by Ernest Thompson Seton. It's Seton so there is lots of accurate woodcraft in this book.
William Hamilton Merritt: Canada's Father of Transportation (The Canadians series) by John M. Bassett. This involves canal building and the War of 1812. The Canadians series are short 64 page biographies with lots of illustrations. Many are by people who have written full-length adult biographies of the subject, not hacks turning out dozens of random "children's nonfiction", but people who know their subject in depth and are passionately interested in him or her. Always worth looking for.
Redcoat by Gregory Sass (no touchstone for this, all 21 possibilities are wrong). Historical fiction of a young man's misadventures in Newcastle, in the 41st Regiment, and in Canada during the War of 1812. Didn't grab me.
The Scout Who Led an Army by Lareine Ballantyne. "Young Billy Green led an army that won an important battle for Canada in 1813 and he wasn't even a soldier. That sounds impossible, but strange things happened when Canada was a young country..." So begins this true story of the Battle of Stoney Creek. I liked this one.
Under a Shooting Star by Maxine Trottier. Adventures of Edward MacNeil and Kate and Anne Kimmerling, three young people shipwrecked on an island in Lake Erie and caught in the midst of the War of 1812.
Son Of The Hounds by Robert Sutherland. "Sons of the hounds, come here and get flesh"... so went the ancient battle cry of the Camerons of old. To young Johnny Cameron, fighting in the Niagara Peninsula in 1813 with the famous Band of Bloody Boys, it seemed that once again it was time for these words to ring out loud and clear....
The Other Elizabeth by Karleen Bradford. It's a YA timeslip story in which a girl visiting a historical site on a school trip suddenly finds herself back in the midst of the war of 1812 -- sometimes rather amusing in that if Elizabeth had only paid more attention to Canadian history, she'd have a better idea of what was going on. Who won the battle of Crysler's farm anyway? That's going to be very important to her very soon. And here she thought history was boring.
The Rowboat War by Fred Swayze. Anything by the Swayzes is very readable YA Canadiana and they wrote about many facets of Canadian history.
Good Soldier: The Story of Isaac Brock by D. J. Goodspeed. Written in a direct, conversational style - brings Brock and his times to life for ages 10-13, in my opinion much more successfully than more recent, fictionalized books like the following (which nonetheless also has much to recommend it). I do like the fact that it is 100% historical too.
Jeremy's War 1812 by John Ibbotson. -- also published as simply "1812" but imagine the difficulties of touchstoning or searching that title, also as "1812, Jeremy and the General". YA historical fiction puts a young "colonial" in the position of batsman (personal servant) to General Isaac Brock. Fictional in that Brock's batsman was with him long before he came to Canada and outlived him. The book deals with some of the questions regarding the role of natives in the war of 1812, whether Brock was dealing in good faith. IF I recall correctly Ibbotson has Brock regretfully saying that he knows the Indians won't get what he is promisisng them. The First Nations really were abandoned by the British after the war and their concerns not considered in the treaty with the USA, but so were the Canadian settlers, Britain's interests were to avoid another war with the USA and to put the Napoleonic Wars behind them (to them the War of 1812 was, literally, a footnote to the Napoleonic Wars). I believe, based on what I know of his character, that Brock was dealing in good faith with Tecumseh and that if both -- or either -- of them had survived there would have been serious political pressure on the peace negotiators.
Rolf in the Woods by Ernest Thompson Seton. It's Seton so there is lots of accurate woodcraft in this book.
William Hamilton Merritt: Canada's Father of Transportation (The Canadians series) by John M. Bassett. This involves canal building and the War of 1812. The Canadians series are short 64 page biographies with lots of illustrations. Many are by people who have written full-length adult biographies of the subject, not hacks turning out dozens of random "children's nonfiction", but people who know their subject in depth and are passionately interested in him or her. Always worth looking for.
Redcoat by Gregory Sass (no touchstone for this, all 21 possibilities are wrong). Historical fiction of a young man's misadventures in Newcastle, in the 41st Regiment, and in Canada during the War of 1812. Didn't grab me.
The Scout Who Led an Army by Lareine Ballantyne. "Young Billy Green led an army that won an important battle for Canada in 1813 and he wasn't even a soldier. That sounds impossible, but strange things happened when Canada was a young country..." So begins this true story of the Battle of Stoney Creek. I liked this one.
Under a Shooting Star by Maxine Trottier. Adventures of Edward MacNeil and Kate and Anne Kimmerling, three young people shipwrecked on an island in Lake Erie and caught in the midst of the War of 1812.
Son Of The Hounds by Robert Sutherland. "Sons of the hounds, come here and get flesh"... so went the ancient battle cry of the Camerons of old. To young Johnny Cameron, fighting in the Niagara Peninsula in 1813 with the famous Band of Bloody Boys, it seemed that once again it was time for these words to ring out loud and clear....
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