適合年齡

8歲左右

繪本節選

Step back more than three hundred years to when

life was much different.

Imagine a time before the United States was a country.

It is a period known as the Colonial Times.

It is a cold morning.

You wake up before the sun rises.

You have much work to do.

Only some lucky children get to go to school.

Most kids spend their days working beside their parents.

You begin the day by washing up in the washbasin and getting dressed.

The water isn’t hot unless your mother or father has already boiled some.

Then you light a lantern and walk outside to gather wood from the woodpile.

This is your first chore of the day

中文翻譯：

倒退三百多年到什么時候

生活完全不同。

想象一下，在美國成為一個國家之前的一段時間。

這是一個被稱為殖民時代的時期。

這是一個寒冷的早晨。

你在太陽升起之前就醒了。

你有很多工作要做。

只有一些幸運的孩子能上學。

大多數孩子每天都在父母身邊工作。

一天的開始就是在洗臉盆里洗衣服。

水不是熱的，除非你父母已經煮了一些。

然后你點上燈籠，走到外面從木堆里撿木頭。

這是你一天的第一件家務活