The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Longfellow's tribute to the famous revolutionary hero begins with a stirring cadence that American school children have committed to memory for over a century. Illustrator Christoper Bing adds luminous paintings, historically rich engravings, and other enrichments to Longfellow's poem, tying the fiction into the fact of what really happened on that April night.
Genres: PoetryHistoryClassicsPicture BooksChildrensHistoricalNonfictionAmerican HistoryAmerican RevolutionSchool
40 Pages

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