Get your gun Sam''s father said. The British soldiers are
coming this way Sam''s father was a Minuteman. Sam was ready in a
minute. Father and son rushed to the village green. Other Minutemen
were already there. Through the long night they waited and waited.
Then, at dawn, the soldiers came In this exciting I Can Read Book,
Nathaniel Benchly recreates what it must have been like for a young
boy to fight in the Battle of Lexington. Arnold Lobel''s vivid
pictures give a poignant reality to the famous battle that marked
the beginning of the American Revolution.
關於作者：
Nathaniel Benchley November 13, 1915 – December 14, 1981 was
an American author.
Born in Newton, Massachusetts to a literary family, he was the
son of Gertrude Darling and Robert Benchley 1889-1945, the noted
American writer, humorist, critic, actor, and one of the founders
of the Algonquin Round Table in New York City.
Nathaniel Benchley was the highly-respected author of many
children''sjuvenile books that provided learning for the youthful
readers with stories of various animals or through the book''s
historical settings. Benchley dealt with diverse locales and topics
such as "Bright Candles", which recounts the experiences of a
16-year-old Danish boy during the German occupation of his country
in World War II; and "Small Wolf", a story about a Native American
boy who meets white men on the island of Manhattan and learns that
their ideas about land are different from those of his own
peoples''.
Film directorproducer, Norman Jewison made Benchley''s 1961 novel
The Off-Islanders into a motion picture titled The Russians Are
Coming, the Russians Are Coming for which he received the
nomination for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay. He
was a close friend of actor Humphrey Bogart and wrote his biography
in 1975.
Benchley''s novel Welcome to Xanadu was made into the 1975 motion
picture Sweet Hostage.
His elder son, Peter Benchley 1940-2006, was a writer best
known for writing the novel Jaws and the screenplay of the 1975
Steven Spielberg film made from it. His younger son, Nat Benchley,
is a writer and actor who has portrayed his grandfather, Robert
Benchley, in a one-man, semi-biographical stage show, "Benchley
Despite Himself". The show was a compilation of Robert Benchley''s
best monologues, short films, radio rantings and pithy pieces as
recalled, edited, and acted by his grandson Nat, and combined with
family reminiscences and friends'' perspectives."
Nathaniel Benchley died in 1981 in Boston, Massachusetts and was
interred in the family plot at Prospect Hill Cemetery in
Nantucket.
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