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A review by trilled_meow
A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620 by Kathryn Lasky
3.0
I'm rereading one of my favorite series from childhood. This is the diary of Remember Patience Whipple, a pilgrim girl on the Mayflower. Because they were such a small group, most characters other than the Whipple family were real people. Her diary documents various events through at least the first winter at Plymouth.
While Lasky did a pretty good job, I feel like there were a lot of people mentioned and dropped. The Priscilla Mullins/John Alden relationship was brought up a few times and suddenly dropped without even adding that they were married in the epilogue, for example. The other book in this series I read recently/as an adult, written by a different author (I Walk in Dread--set during the Salem Witch Trials), was better about this from what I recall.
While Lasky did a pretty good job, I feel like there were a lot of people mentioned and dropped. The Priscilla Mullins/John Alden relationship was brought up a few times and suddenly dropped without even adding that they were married in the epilogue, for example. The other book in this series I read recently/as an adult, written by a different author (I Walk in Dread--set during the Salem Witch Trials), was better about this from what I recall.