Obadiah is a feisty kid, whose gentle Quaker familiy is the perfect foil for his antics. Plenty of historical accuracy, and plenty of good empathy towards kids.

I much preferred this to the awarded Thy Friend, Obadiah, in which the little Quaker boy has an ambivalent reaction to a gregarious seagull.?á It's a sweet story, but the moral that when you do a kindness to another, you become bonded to them" seems, to me, a little difficult to the young audience.?á (I didn't understand it myself, the first time I read the picture-book.)?á In this book, there's enough about the Quakers that we understand they have conservative values, but there's also plenty of excitement, and Obadiah seems like a boy we could make friends with, not some exotic other.?á The pictures are also brighter, with more white space and more color.?á I imagine, too, that the moral (which is akin to that of The Boy who Cried Wolf) would be more understandable and more relevant to children." ( )

This is one of a 'series' of book Turkle wrote about a Quaker boy named Obadiah. Wonderful sweet stories that teaches without preaching. ( )

This book was a good example of a historical fiction because it tells the story of a young Quaker living during the colonial era of the Northeast part of the United States. This story uses an actual historical time and place to place this story in. The characters of the story are fictional but the elements of the story, the time and the place are all not fictitious.
This story is the story of the little boy who called wolf set in colonial America. The main character, Obadiah, is always lying about things. And his lies are so outrageous that no one ever believes him so then when he loses his hat at a fair and tells his parts the truth, and the truth being really crazy, his parents do not believe him and tell him to stop lying about it. But then someone finds Obadiah's hat and asks his parents if they heard the crazy truth. The man tells them the same story Obadiah told and his parents know he wasn't lying to them.
Age Appropriateness: Intermediate
Media: Charcoal and Watercolors ( )