Young Betsy Ross is upset when her brother tells her that she cannot make furniture because she is a girl, but her mother teaches her that she can still do important things.
A biography of the first Dutch governor of New Amsterdam, whose wise government and fair treatment of the Indians remain models of excellent leadership.
Recounts the boyhood of America's famous poet, Robert Frost, who knew from experience how to build fences, pick apples, and swing birches long before he wrote about them.
The boyhood of the colonial Boston lad who became a renowned silversmith and great patriot of the Revolution, with his ride which warned that the British were coming.