Crystal+Reynolds


 * PONY EXPRESS **

** NON-FICTION **


 * // Bolick, Nancy O’Keefe. 1994. Mail Call!. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data. 62. Tempe Public Library //**** . **

This book is about how to deliver mail. They talk about stamps and postcards. They talked about how they talked back in the days and how they had television and magazines to learn about the news. The pony express linked the eastern and western United States.

They get to learn about mail and how mail was transported during the old days. They get to learn that was the fast way to deliver mail during those days.


 * // Brill, Marlene. 2004. Bronco Charlie and the Pony Express. Library of Congress Cataloging- in-Publication Data. 46. Tempe Public Library //**

This book talks about a little boy who had trained this horse. Charlie was dazzled by the pony express stories. Charlie was going to be the one to deliver mail to the states because it was going to be late. Charlie had offered to ride for the pony express. He had stopped at the station and switched with the person who was sleeping and relaxing.

This book would teach children about taking turns. Also it would show them to come up with something they want to do and go for it. It shows great character for the children and we could use this in an activity.


 * // Kay, Verla. 2010. Whatever Happened to the Pony Express?. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data. 27. Tempe Public Library. //**

They talk about how it became the pony express. They use letters in the book to describe their days. The pictures are described through the text and clearly shows you how the pony express was created. The book shows you how the mail got from place to place and how they used the pony express.

We could write letters to the office and have a stuffed horse and have two kids, ride the animal up to the office and have a creative sign as they learn more and more about the pony express.


 * // Kent, Deborah. Riding the Pony Express. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data.150. Tempe Public Library //**.

This book is about the pony express and how a girl lost her father. So she disguised herself as a boy to head out to the pony express. She was trying to clear her name.

This book would be a good social studies activity, because they could write out a timeline of events that went on during the book.


 * // Anderson, Pete. The Pony Express. A Division of Grolier Publishing Co. 30. Tempe Public Library. //**

This book talks about what everything costed back then. It gives a timeline through the book. It talks about the hard times and what they had to go thru with the pony express. They talk about how they had to transfer products thru the pony expresss.

They would create a timeline from the dates in the book. They could present a small timeline and learn how to put dates in order.


 * // Glass, Andrew. The Sweetwater Run. 1996. Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group. 34. Tempe Public Library //**.

This book is very detailed with the pictures. The trail is cleared and they trade off riding. The boy who rode the rest of the way had to take the rest of the mail thru three crossings. He rode thru the night and had to change ponies thru out.

This book displays great imagination. I would create a lesson for the kids to write about what they would do if they had to ride thru out the night and how they would take the mail and be able to handle the responsibility.


 * // Van Der Linde, Laurel. The Pony Express. 1993. Macmillian Publishing Company. 72. Tempe Public Library. //**

This book is more about information and what the pony express is about. They talk about opening day and how they started. They talk about the route that they had to take to get the mail to the western states. They include the famous riders who rode through out whole pony express.

The activity I could use would be for them to draw a picture of what the trail and stations would look like.


 * // Kroll, Steven. Pony Express. 1996. Scholastic, Inc. 40. Tempe Public Library. //**

This book talks about the beginning before the pony express happened. The first ride for the pony express was April 3rd- April 13th. April 3rd the pony express was getting underway. They had to go thru mountains, valleys, and canyon to get to the western states. Then they designed the telegraph and that made mail easier to send.

The related curriculum is social studies. It also has like community helpers, which is like social studies but a small part of it. They helped transfer the mail. The book is very visual and would help them understand what is happening as the book is being read.


 * // Harness, Cheryl. They’re off! The Story Of the Pony Express. Simon &Schuster Children’s Publishing Division. 28. Tempe Public Library //**.

They show a map in the middle of the book to help the kids understand where the trails were and how long they had to travel. They were 80 riders hired and they had spent 1000.00 for the company. They had switched middle way thru their rides and would stay at the stations till the next rider showed up. The pony express began at the time of the civil war.

This book is related to social studies. It talks a lot about what happened and how they created the pony express. I chose this book because it talks about how the pony express got create and how they hired so many riders.


 * // Fuchs, Bernie //** . **//Ride like the wind. Scholastic, Inc. 29. Tempe Public Library//**

The book talks about the Native American tribe Paiute. They were started to move westward. They were burning and attacking the stations were the riders stopped. The stations were on their land and the riders were riding as fast as they can through the trails.

This book relates to social studies from the pony express to the Native Americans. They talk about the Native Americans and how they attacked the stations that were set up on their land. The pony express shows that the Native Americans were not happy that we started to move westward onto their land.