[audiobook] Shapes Are Everywhere: All Things Triangle in Every Angle: Shapes for Kids Toddlers Early Learning Books (Baby Toddler Size Shape Books Book 1) by Baby Professor in Arts-Photography

Review

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A small rural American town; much like many others -- except . . .By R. M. PetersonSharpsburg; Maryland is a small rural town like many in America -- except that the Battle of Antietam (or the Battle of Sharpsburg; as it is called in the South) was fought on the rolling terrain just outside the town on September 17; 1862. The Battle was the bloodiest day in American military history (about 23;000 casualties). It also marked a pivotal point in the Civil War.Vernell and Tim Doyle; residents of Sharpsburg; assembled the images and wrote the text of this installment in the Images of America series. The book is divided into five sections:The Town -- Photographs and other images of Sharpsburg buildings dating back to the eighteenth century (many are log houses);The People -- Photographs of residents of Sharpsburg; from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries (too many of these are large group pictures; such as the 113 children in the Sharpsburg School in 1920);The Battlefield;The Canal -- Sharpsburg is two to three miles from the Chesapeake Ohio Canal that parallels the northern bank of the Potomac River; these photographs of coal barges and pleasure cruise boats being drawn by mules on a towpath constitute the most interesting section of the book for me; andThe Area -- Photographs of old structures on the outskirts of Sharpsburg.On the whole; the textual excerpts accompanying the images are lengthier than is the norm in the Images of America books I have seen. Unfortunately; some of them contain a fair measure of repetition; they evidently were written as stand-alone entries without regard to someone (like me) reading the entire book; entry after entry. My other complaint concerns the absence of a contemporary map or plat of the town; which for Sharpsburg would have been so easy to provide since the town contains only eight streets. Still; I appreciated learning what I could about an American town I have visited (now; four times).