Sacagawea: Courageous Trailblazer! (Show Me History!)
Head out onto the trail with the brave, resourceful, and courageous Sacagawea!
What did 33 men in the 1800s need to find their way through the wilderness on a trip across America? They needed a woman—and they found one in Sacagawea, the Native American teenage mother who helped the Lewis and Clark expedition survive. She and her baby braved floods, hunger, storms, and snakes to help the expedition that opened the West. Sacagawea: Courageous Trailblazer! tells the life story of this amazing pioneer who endured hardship in her youth but nevertheless became a fearless leader and a role model for generations to come. Readers of all ages will be entertained and educated by the full-color illustrations and historically accurate narrative of this graphical biography.
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Want to see Thomas Jefferson with a shopping cart? Me neither. I'm still not sure why they add in modern elements into the history lessons as you can easily create gags using things that existed back then.
On another page we see a modern beach umbrella. Again a scene that's just for fun. The clothing is also off. Way too clean and modern looking as the artist loves to draw plain modern t-shirts for some reason. Yet another page depicts a shop the American Indians set up far away from civilization using modern English sales text and an electronic cash register. Even kids won't feel this is real.
The style is fun and fast with lots of gags. But it overall is not proper history. Sacagawea was kidnapped by a tribe. That's normal as tribes would attack villages directly and kill all men and take the women for reproduction. Then a French trader bought her as a slave to be his wife. The book goes over this, but everything is written for children and made fun. So any mention of slavery or sex slavery is done in a cartoony style with our 2 kid narrators from the future whining a bit about it and then stating "that's just how things were back then". Then promptly continuing praising the slave while mocking Lewis and Clark on every page. She's the brave one, the one pointing out the way despite them all being lost, the one saving equipment, the one doing great trades. The one not doing it for money. Everyone else ends up being made into a silly goof just following her lead. Did anyone else do anything at all on this trip? Meanwhile her husband, who bought her as a slave, is this young handsome fella as of course she can't have a sleazy husband who was forced to buy himself a wife. He has to be the second-most competent person here as he is her husband at any rate so he can't be made to look foolish like Lewis and Clark.
The whole Disney-fication is weird. This is more comparable to a 1990's Disney movie inspired by history than proper history. The 2 narrators are Genie, just there for a modern gag. I liked their Lincoln book fine enough. But I still hate the modern drawings. Keep it historical. This is especially a minus when there are so, so many Sacagawea books. The comic book claims she has become a female icon so women adore reading all about her hence there are a ton of books focusing on her not the expedition or any men in the expedition. If it was the only book about her one could still recommend it. But there are way too many better options. Don't fall for the nice looking cover art. The book is way more crudely drawn. She's still depicted as a beauty, of course, but everything looks plain.
On another page we see a modern beach umbrella. Again a scene that's just for fun. The clothing is also off. Way too clean and modern looking as the artist loves to draw plain modern t-shirts for some reason. Yet another page depicts a shop the American Indians set up far away from civilization using modern English sales text and an electronic cash register. Even kids won't feel this is real.
The style is fun and fast with lots of gags. But it overall is not proper history. Sacagawea was kidnapped by a tribe. That's normal as tribes would attack villages directly and kill all men and take the women for reproduction. Then a French trader bought her as a slave to be his wife. The book goes over this, but everything is written for children and made fun. So any mention of slavery or sex slavery is done in a cartoony style with our 2 kid narrators from the future whining a bit about it and then stating "that's just how things were back then". Then promptly continuing praising the slave while mocking Lewis and Clark on every page. She's the brave one, the one pointing out the way despite them all being lost, the one saving equipment, the one doing great trades. The one not doing it for money. Everyone else ends up being made into a silly goof just following her lead. Did anyone else do anything at all on this trip? Meanwhile her husband, who bought her as a slave, is this young handsome fella as of course she can't have a sleazy husband who was forced to buy himself a wife. He has to be the second-most competent person here as he is her husband at any rate so he can't be made to look foolish like Lewis and Clark.
The whole Disney-fication is weird. This is more comparable to a 1990's Disney movie inspired by history than proper history. The 2 narrators are Genie, just there for a modern gag. I liked their Lincoln book fine enough. But I still hate the modern drawings. Keep it historical. This is especially a minus when there are so, so many Sacagawea books. The comic book claims she has become a female icon so women adore reading all about her hence there are a ton of books focusing on her not the expedition or any men in the expedition. If it was the only book about her one could still recommend it. But there are way too many better options. Don't fall for the nice looking cover art. The book is way more crudely drawn. She's still depicted as a beauty, of course, but everything looks plain.
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