The Great Tulip Trade
The Great Tulip Trade is a short book that takes a look at the “tulip mania” of 1634 in the Netherlands. For a few years after 1634, prices for some bulbs of the recently introduced and fashionable tulip reached extraordinarily high levels.
Anna’s father gives her the most wonderful present for her birthday — eight beautiful tulips! But tulips in Holland in the 1600s are more precious than gold or jewels, and everyone who walks by the house wants to barter with her for one!
- About the author: Beth Wagner Brust is an award-winning author of several children’s books and a graduate of Stanford University.
