America’s Paul Revere
The inspiration for America’s Paul Revere came to Lynd Ward unexpectedly. One day, Mr. Ward was reading Esther Forbes’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Paul Revere And The World He Lived In. He began to wonder if there could not be books for younger children like that prize-winning biography.
Could there not be books that would, through words and pictures, recreate American history? Books with words and pictures that would portray the men who have helped make this country great?
As Ward thought about Paul Revere’s life, illustrations for such a book took shape in his mind. He finally decided to approach the publishers of Paul Revere and the World He Lived In with his plan for a children’s book.
