Open Court

 

Kindergarten

 

Red, White and Blue

 

                     

 

323.6 Mar                    

           Martin Jr., Bill.  I pledge allegiance.

 

394.2 Ans                    

           Ansary, Mir Tamim.  Flag Day.  Chicago : Heinemann Library,

                c2002.  Explores the history of Flag Day, celebrated on June

                14 in the United States, and provides information about the

                American flag and its significance.

 

782 Ber                      

           Berlin, Irving, 1888-.  God bless America.  New York :

                HarperCollins, 2002.  .  A family of bears experiences

                America in an illustrated version of the classic song.

 

811 Bat                      

           Bates, Katharine Lee, 1859-1929.  America the beautiful.  1st

                Aladdin Paperbacks ed.  New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2002,

                c1993.  An illustrated edition of the nineteenth-century

                poem, later set to music, celebrating the beauty of America.

 

974.7 Mil                     

           Miller, Natalie.  The story of the Statue of Liberty.  Chicago, :

                Childrens Press, [1965].

 

B Bat                        

           Younger, Barbara, 1954-.  Purple mountain majesties : the story

                of Katharine Lee Bates and "America the beautiful"  New York

                : Puffin, 2002, c1998.  A brief biography of the author and

                college professor whose travels across the United States

                inspired her to write the poem which became the song

                "America the Beautiful.".

 

B Ros                        

           Wallner, Alexandra.  Betsy Ross.  1st ed.  New York : Holiday

                House, c1994.  An introduction to the life of the

                Philadelphia seamstress credited with sewing the first

                American flag.

 

B Ros                        

           St. George, Judith, 1931-.  Betsy Ross : patriot of Philadelphia.

                1st ed.  New York : Henry Holt, 1997.  The personal

                struggles of the woman generally credited with having

                created the first American flag are set against the backdrop

                of the colonists' fight for independence.

 

F Pom                        

           Pomeranc, Marion Hess.  The American Wei.  Morton Grove, IL : A.

                Whitman, 1998.  When Wei Fong loses his first tooth while

                going to his family's naturalization ceremony, many

                soon-to-be Americans join in the search.

 

VC                           

           Story of the Statue of Liberty.

 

VC                           

           What is a flag?