CHILDREN'S
Released: April 1, 2004
"Pair this uplifting debut with Barbara Younger's Purple Mountain Majesties, illustrated by Stacey Schuett (1998), which focuses on the poem's composer. (introduction) (Picture book/poem. 6-10)"
Gall, an actual descendant of Bates, illustrates the four verses of this country's other national anthem with bold, clean-lined, heroic American scenes, from a sturdy rural couple contemplating their "amber waves," to firefighters raising a flag over the ruins at Ground Zero.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Jan. 1, 2004
"A perceptive, accessible tribute to freedom. (historical note, sources) (Picture book/historical fiction. 6-9)"
Ned, a fictional boy, meets Thomas Jefferson, who's staying at his mother's boardinghouse while he's writing the Declaration of Independence.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: May 1, 2003
"Catalanotto's watercolor illustrations invoke summer, giving readers a glimpse of that season, and of the familiar activities surrounding the holiday. (Picture book. 5-9)"
In a small town, which could be Anywhere, USA, a young boy narrates as three generations of family gather to spend the day celebrating July 4th.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: May 1, 2000
"Hats off indeed to this splendid parade of a book. (Picture book. 2-5)"
The business of a parade is to march along with style and zip and knock the socks off those who watch.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: June 1, 1998
"Put this on display near Barbara Cooney's Miss Rumphius (1982) and Michael Bedard's Emily (1992). (Picture book/nonfiction. 7-10)"
In 1893, when she was 34, Wellesley English professor Katharine Lee Bates took a train trip from Boston to Colorado Springs to teach summer school.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: May 1, 1998
"The title is hyperbolic, but Rylant's poetic language and the art's striking forms and colors communicate equal strength and intensity of feeling. (Picture book. 5-8)"
Inspired by her own journey westward, Rylant puts a young traveler and his dog, Tulip, into a green VW Beetle and sends them from Ohio to Oregon.
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