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The midnight ride of Paul Revere

An illustrated version of the narrative poem which describes Paul Revere's midnight ride in 1775 to warn the people of the Boston countryside of an impending attack by the British.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
Other Authors:	Bing, Christopher H. (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Brooklyn, NY : Handprint Books, 2001.
Subjects:	Revere, Paul, > 1735-1818 > Juvenile poetry. Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775 > Juvenile poetry. Children's poetry, American. American poetry > Juvenile. Poetry > Juvenile.
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Summary:	An illustrated version of the narrative poem which describes Paul Revere's midnight ride in 1775 to warn the people of the Boston countryside of an impending attack by the British.
Physical Description:	1 v.: ill.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	1929766130
Author Notes:	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), a professor of French and Spanish at Harvard University, was one of the first American academics to have a truly global interest in literature. He became convinced that America was in need of its own mythology, poeti Christopher Bing, whose first book, "Casey at the Bat," was named a 2001 Caldecott Honor Book, lives with his wife and three children in Lexington, Massachusetts, in a house directly on the Freedom Trail, the route on which Paul Revere rod