Jean-Paul Hebert Was There =: Jean-Paul Hebert Etait La

By Sheila Hebert-Collins and Sheila Hebert Collins

Book Overview

1/2 Soldiers
pointed guns at my mother and father. They are forcing us to leave our home, and
we are allowed to take only what we can carry. My name is Jean-Paul H 1/2bert, and
I am an Acadian. 1/2
Its 1759, and the British are expelling the Acadians--French immigrants who settled Canada in search of
religious freedom-- from their land in Nova Scotia. Jean-Paul recounts his family's plight, from their forced labor in Georgia to the hardships they overcome to build a new home in the Louisiana bayous. His story is the story of Louisiana's Cajuns.
Jean-Paul H 1/2bert Was There is presented in English and in French. It is designed to teach youngsters about their Cajun heritage and native French language.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: French
• ISBN: 1565549287
• ISBN13: 9781565549289
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.7" x 11.2"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Remember the Acadian Expuslion of 1755 in a Children's Version

Thank goodness for American writers like Sheila Hebert-Collins and others like her who put their creative literary skills to work by preserving their inherited culture. "Jean-Paul Hebert Was There" is a sensitive historical account of the brutal Acadian expulsion (circa 1755-1759) from Nova Scotia, an event boiled into the annals of French-Acadian Americans but not a well understood tragedy by most others. Honestly, this children's book is a good gift for many adults as well because it is beautifully illustrated and complete with a French and English translation of the story's events on every single page. Hebert-Collins calls upon her family's ancestors to create this accurate piece of historical fiction. Although I'm not a teacher, I'd like to think this book would be included on a required reading list of all students of North American history, regardless of how old or young they may be.