On the Day Peter Stuyvesant Sailed Into Town

This piece of Historical Fiction is called On the Day Peter Stuyvesant Sailed Into Town by Arnold Lobel. This book is for 5-8 years old children. This book is about Peter Stuyvesant, appointed Director-General for the Dutch colony, worked hard to keep his colony that was in the center of New Amsterdam in 1624. Things like repetitive Indian tribe attacks, poor leadership, poorly build houses, crumbling walls, Stuyvesant worked hard to fix. He made the colonists work had to make their colony great. At the end of the book, Stuyvesant dreams of the growing and enormous city that we see now today.