This is an excellent book for reading around Thanksgiving or if you are studying the colonial period with young children. The illustrations are actual photographs taken at Plimoth Plantation of interpreters in their seventeenth-century characters. Here is a quote from the begining of the book dated July 16, 1627: "Good day to you. I am Sauel Eaton. My family sailed from England to this New World seven years ago on the ship Mayflower. I was a mere suckling child then and I don't remember the voyage or our first winter here. Nearly half the people died. My mother was one...Today is the day I have been longing for. I am to help with the rye harvest for the first time..."

See these other books by Kate Waters: Sarah Morton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Girl, On the Mayflower:Voyage of the Ship's Apprentice and Passenger Girl, Tapenum's Day: A Wampanoag Indian Boy in Pilgrim Times, Mary Geddy's Day:A Colonial Girl in Williamsburg, Giving Thanks: The 1621 Harvest Feast