"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Libraries that need additional materials to support holiday collections will find this worthy of consideration even though the ideals of independence and patriotism remain elusive.Ĭopyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. The author's notes cap the work with a few historical and personal tidbits. Catalanotto's illustrations capture the festivities with selective realism and just enough detail. Contact seller Seller Rating: BookSigned Used - SoftcoverCondition: fine US 8. Though most children would rather be at an event than read about the nice time others have, Osborne's text is an agreeable slice of life. Happy Birthday, America Osborne, Mary Pope Published byRoaring Brook Pr, New Milford CT, 2005 ISBN 10: 1596430516ISBN 13: 9781596430518 Seller: THE OLD LIBRARY SHOP, Bethlehem, PA, U.S.A. Finally, a happy, tired family drives home. Roaring Brook Press, 15. "Yankee Doodle," "Stars and Stripes Forever," Lady Liberty, reading from the Declaration of Independence, and a community singing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" lead right into the "Oooooh!" "Ahhhh!" "Wow!" sparked by the fireworks. BUY THIS BOOK Happy Birthday, America Mary Pope Osborne. Food, fun, and family fill the day, with firemen members of the Kiwanis, American Legion, and Knights ofColumbus and a local dance school and band all playing their parts. Osborne tackles this challenge through a nostalgic recollection of a small-town Fourth of July celebration. (Oct.Kindergarten-Grade 2-Independence and patriotism are hard concepts for the very young to grasp. Read 26 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. As tantalizing as Osborne's storytelling are McCurdy's ( The Owl-Scatterer ) elaborate, full-color wood engravings, which in their robust stylization dramatically render the grandeur of these engrossing yarns. For this book, bestselling childrens author Mary Pope Osborne was inspired by a Fourth of July. Also chronicled are heroes hailing from places other than the backwoods, including Stormalong, a giant sailor who as a baby was washed onto a Cape Cod beach by a tidal wave, and Mose, a New York City fireman immortalized in an 1848 Broadway play. Happy Birthday, America audiobook, by Mary Pope Osborne. Osborne's reputation as a gifted raconteur ( Favorite Greek Myths Beauty and the Beast ) is reaffirmed in this compendium, which retells the legends of familiar figures (Davy Crockett, Paul Bunyan, Johnny Appleseed, Pecos Bill), as well as lesser known personalities, such as Crockett's fictional wife Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind, a composite character shaped by tales of various real-life women. American folk heroes of the 19th century spring to life in these splendidly retold sagas.
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