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The Biggest (and Best) Flag That Ever Flew
Rebecca Jones
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Description for The Biggest (and Best) Flag That Ever Flew
Hardcover. Num Pages: 30 pages, 16 color illustrations. BIC Classification: YFB. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 186 x 257 x 11. Weight in Grams: 362.
Young Caroline Pickersgill lives with her mother and grandmother in Baltimore, Maryland. Mrs. Pickersgill, a widow, supports herself and her daughter by making flags for the ships that sail into the city. Some soldiers from Fort McHenry come to her to order the biggest and best flag in the world, and Caroline helps make it. When the British sail up the Chesapeake Bay to destroy Baltimore during the War of 1812, the defenders at the fort beat them back. After the British sail away the next day, the flag “gallantly streaming” over the fort is the one Caroline and her mother had ... Read more
Young Caroline Pickersgill lives with her mother and grandmother in Baltimore, Maryland. Mrs. Pickersgill, a widow, supports herself and her daughter by making flags for the ships that sail into the city. Some soldiers from Fort McHenry come to her to order the biggest and best flag in the world, and Caroline helps make it. When the British sail up the Chesapeake Bay to destroy Baltimore during the War of 1812, the defenders at the fort beat them back. After the British sail away the next day, the flag “gallantly streaming” over the fort is the one Caroline and her mother had ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
30
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780870334405
SKU
V9780870334405
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Rebecca Jones
Rebecca C. Jones lives near the Chesapeake Bay in Annapolis, Maryland, where she writes books for children.
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