Everybody remembers Paul Revere because of his celebrated ride at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, but there were many other things in his life that were important and interesting, for he was a man of varied talents and services.

It will be good news to thousands of boys and girls that the ever-popular Augusta Stevenson has written this story of an adventurous boyhood.

Paul Revere's father was a silversmitih and a patriot just as Paul was after him. Mr. Revere was one of the people in little Boston Town who thought that the taxes and the laws King George of England set up in Massachusetts were not fair. It did not do them any good to complain to the government. It only made the King and his ministers angry and they sent more soldiers to force obedience. Then there was trouble. Citizens jeered at the British soldiers; soldiers insulted citizens and arrested them for trivial things.

Miss Stevenson shows how exciting this all was to young Paul Revere. Having a boy's natural curiosity and no fear, he usually succeeded in being where trouble was. For him life in Boston was just one adventure after another.

Soldiers seldom paid much attention to a boy. Because a brave and clever youngster like Paul had a good chance of slipping past a guard without being noticed, Paul's father and some of the other patriots decided he could be very useful as a messenger in time of danger.

Just how well the lad lived up to the patriot's trust in him you will have to read this book to find out. But you can guess that even with all his courage and quick thinking in an emergency he had some mighty tight squeezes and narrow escapes from the British redcoats–and you won't be wrong. It was splendid training for the night in April '75 when he rode through every Middlesex village and farm crying, "The British are coming! Prepare and arm!"

Augusta Stevenson makes wonderfully stirring reading out of this great American's boyhood. Every boy and girl who likes one breathless incident following close on the heels of another—and who doesn't?—can be glad such a fine storyteller has written about the exciting childhood of Paul Revere. He and she work together to make a perfect addition to the Childhood of Famous American Series. 

From the dust jacket