Who Was Betsy Ross?
  • Published: 26 December 2014
  • ISBN: 9780448482439
  • Imprint: Penguin Workshop
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $16.99

Who Was Betsy Ross?

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The spirit of the American Revolution comes to life with the story of Betsy Ross, a patriotic woman credited with sewing the first American flag.

Born the eighth of seventeen children in Philadelphia, Betsy Ross lived in a time when the American colonies were yearning for independence from British rule. Ross worked as a seamstress and was eager to contribute to the cause, making tents and repairing uniforms when the colonies declared war. By 1779 she was filling cartridges for the Continental Army. Did she sew the first flag? That’s up for debate, but Who Was Betsy Ross? tells the story of a fierce patriot who certainly helped create the flag of a new nation.
  • Published: 26 December 2014
  • ISBN: 9780448482439
  • Imprint: Penguin Workshop
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $16.99
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James Buckley Jr.

James Buckley Jr. is one of the country’s most prolific writers of nonfiction for kids, with more than 200 titles to his name, including twenty in the New York Times bestselling Who Was…? biography series and nine books in the Show Me History graphic nonfiction series. James runs Shoreline Publishing Group, a leading producer of nonfiction kids’ books for national and school-library publishers. Shoreline has produced books about moviemaking, creating comic books, celebrity biographies, fashion design, and more. James lives in Santa Barbara, California, where he is the co-producer of the local production of Bloomsday, an annual salute to Irish author James Joyce.

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