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. Sarah Morton was a real child who was nine years old in 1627. Here is a quote from the beginning of the book: "November 12, 1627 Good Day. My name is Sarah Morton. My family sailed to America four years ago on a ship called The Anne. We came to seek freedom from the Church of England. First my family settled in Holland, where I was born. Life in Holland was hard for us, so we set sail for the New World. My father died that first winter. This spring, Mother married Goodman Kempton. I am learning to call him father and am trying hard to earn his love. Come thee with me. Let me show thee how my days are."

See these other books by Kate Waters: Samuel Eaton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy, 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