The Biggest (and Best) Flag That Ever Flew

Synopsis

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 sewn. By “the dawn’s early light,” Francis Scott Key saw it waving “o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.” Here is a charming (and true) children’s story about a young girl who, in helping her widowed mother, became a part of our nation’s history.

Copyright:

1988

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781507301531

Related ISBNs:

9780870334405

Publisher:

Schiffer Publishing

Date of Addition:

11/02/24

Copyrighted By:

Rebecca C. Jones.

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Children's Books, Military, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture

Grade Levels:

Kindergarten, First grade, Second grade, Third grade, Fourth grade, Fifth grade, Sixth grade, Pre-Kindergarten

Reading Age:

0–11

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.