Learn how 17th-century life differs from the modern world through amazing photographs showing historical reenactors in costume and character and through lively, informative text. Kids will see that since the Pilgrims couldn't make a weekly trip to the grocery store, they hunted and gathered food then cooked their meals on open fires or in outdoor ovens. Pilgrim children didn't go to school but instead helped their parents with chores and found time to play games like marbles. Pilgrims learned much about their new land from their Indian neighbors. Pilgrims of Plymouth shows English settlers working hard to build a new life in what was for them a new world.