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Memorial Day and Patriotism
The Incredible Patriotism Project by Linda Skeers, with pictures by Ard Hoyt Linda Skeers’ book The Impossible Patriotism Project seemed a perfect way to illuminate through Young Reader’s books, the “invisible”. Honored as a CBC/NCSS Notable Trade Book for Young People, it is as School Library Journal states, “The gentle depiction of a boy who…
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“America the Beautiful,” illustrated by Wendell Minor Who among us, old or young, has not heard or sung that most stirring of poems set to music, written by one Katharine Lee Bates entitled, “America the Beautiful.” After reading this book with its masterful paintings of the depth and variety of the American landscape, parents, grandparents…
Read MoreConstitution Day, September 17, 2021
We the Kids, written and illustrated by David Catrow According to a posting on the internet, Constitution Day celebrates the “formation and signing of the American Constitution on September 17, 1787 by thirty-nine brave men.” Artist and political cartoonist David Catrow is bent on presenting “The Preamble to the Constitution” to very young future voters…
Read MoreHelping Young Readers to Remember the True Reason for Memorial Day By Celebrating the “Invisible,” With Picture Books to Educate and Enlighten Them This May 31, 2021.
A sometimes invisible group recognized in May are our honored war dead. On Memorial Day, it seems the original intent at its outset was the decorating of graves of Union and Confederate soldiers. It was begun by one General John Logan, but seems to have gotten lost in the shuffle of the present three-day Memorial…
Read MoreJune 14th is Flag Day! Long May “Old Glory” Wave.
June 14, 2020 is Flag Day. In the midst of all the tumult and tension that the American flag and the anthem called “The Star Spangled Banner” can conjure up in the hearts and minds of so many today, it still stands for so many eternal truths of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness…
Read MoreMemorial Day and the Woman Who Made the Poppy a Flower of Remembrance
The Poppy Lady: Moina Belle Michael and Her Tribute to Veterans By Barbara Elizabeth Walsh Paintings by Layne Johnson There is a saying that things can be lost in the “fog of war.” People are certainly lost, families disrupted and freedom compromised. But there are people, thank goodness, that have the conviction that, in some sense,…
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