A review by daisycakesco
An American ABC by Maud Petersham, Miska Petersham

1.0

Of course, looking at this book through the lens of our current world there's much to criticize about this book. As you'd expect, there's much denigrating of native americans in this collection of short bits of American history (although, at one point, they are referred to as "the first real Americans"). There were statements that I found highly hypocritical. But beyond that, the story is rather dull, and I found the illustrations static and lifeless. Also: Surprise! X is for Xmas. Huh? I thought this was about American history?