Modern Transportation on Ancient Highways
Suggested Reading

Ages 4-8

"The Amazing Impossible Erie Canal"
by Cheryl Harness

"Our Great Rivers and Waterways" (I Know America)
by Eleanor H. Ayer

"Roll On, River: Rivers in the Lives of the American People"
Peter C. Mancall (Editor)

"Silver Ribbon Skinny: The Towpath Adventures of Skinny Nye, a Mule Skinner on the
Ohio & Erie Canal, 1884"
by Marilyn Seguin

Ages 9-12

"Erie Canal: Gateway to the West (A First Book)"
by Nicholas Nirgiotis, Franklin Watts, Incorporated

"Viking Ships"
by John Lindow, Bellerophon Books

"Water Travel"
by Eryl Davies, Thomson Learning

"Life on the Mississippi"
by Mark Twain

"River of the West: Stories from the Columbia"
by Robert Clark