The flag maker
By: by Susan Campbell Bartoletti ; illustrated by Claire A. Nivola.
Contributors: Nivola, Claire A., ill.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Pickersgill family -- Juvenile literature; Pickersgill family; Baltimore, Battle of, Baltimore, Md., 1814 -- Juvenile literature; Flags -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature; Baltimore, Battle of, Baltimore, Md., 1814; Flags -- United States; Baltimore (Md.) -- History -- War of 1812 -- Flags -- Juvenile literature; United States -- History -- War of 1812 -- Flags -- Juvenile literature; United States -- History -- War of 1812 -- Biography -- Juvenile literature; United States -- History -- War of 1812
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography
Description: Relates events of the 1814 Battle of Baltimore as seen through the eyes of twelve-year-old Caroline Pickersgill, who had worked with her family and their servants to sew the enormous flag which waved over Fort McHenry.