The Salem Witch Trials: 52 Fascinating Facts For Kids

This is one of several books I've read lately which have a number followed by 'fascinating facts' or something along that line. The thing is that is those books there's really for need for the numbering as the book would read pretty much normally without those numbers.

It's not a crucial complaint but it is somewhat bothersome, anyhow.

The book has art illustrations and drawings, both of which are good things to add to a book like this. It discusses the Puritans and how they were very strict and didn't allow dancing or games and the only book they could read was the Bible.

(It's obvious that this would cause major problems for young people who have a lot of energy and who generally very sociable. Virtually everything they might actually be interested in are not allowed which would stifle their growing personalities and minds to a considerable degree.)

The book goes into how the whole witch craze started, the girls who were the accusers and the absurd type of 'evidence' which was allowed in the early trials and which led to being being killed when found guilty.

It then notes how the attitude towards having the trials changed and explores some theories as to the actual cause of the action of the girls.

Other than the unneeded numbering it's a good book to cover what happened in a basic and understandable approach.

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