Veterans Day (Holidays and Festivals (Heinemann Paperback)

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Originally named Armistice Day for the treaty that ended WWI, Veterans Day has become a holiday that honors veterans of all wars. Read this book to learn the history of this important day and find out what types of activities people take part in to honor the service, patriotism, and bravery of our veterans.

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Rebecca Rissman is a Heinemann-Raintree author.


The Veterans Day Visitor (Second Grade Friends)




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Emily’s Pop-Pop is shocked when he hears that Emily and Vincetta Louise don’t know what a veteran is. With Veterans Day coming up, he volunteers to talk to their class about the holiday and the people it honors. But Emily is worried. Pop-Pop sometimes falls asleep at the strangest times. What if he falls asleep in front of the whole class? Everyone would laugh!

Vinni and Emily come up with a plan. With so much to learn, they have to make sure that no one sleeps through this Veterans Day!

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PETER CATALANOTTO is the author/illustrator of many books for children. He lives with his family in Pennsylvania. PAMELA SCHEMBRI is a librarian in upstate New York. This is her first series for young readers.

Veterans Day (On My Own, Holidays)

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Grade 2-5–Both of these books are clear and concise, but do not oversimplify the two holidays. Brill explains how Veterans Day evolved from Armistice Day and how veterans are honored in the United States. A time line is provided, as is a list of suggestions on how to celebrate the holiday. However, one of the Web sites listed is no longer an active link. Lowery does a good job of describing the background of Cinco de Mayo and how it is celebrated in Mexico and in the United States. A glossary of Spanish words is included. Neither book has an index. Decent general titles where needed.–Melissa Christy Buron, Epps Island Elementary, Houston, TX




Veterans Day (Rookie Read-About Holidays)

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Explains the history of Veterans Day and why it is observed, and suggests ways of honoring veterans on this special day, such as flying the flag, attending parades, buying poppies, and visiting hospitals.

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Jacqueline S Cotton is the author of several nonfiction books for children.


Columbus Day (First Step Nonfiction)

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A basic overview of Columbus Day for emergent readers. Color photographs reflect the short, easy-to-understand sentences that improve vocabulary and comprehension. --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.

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Robin Nelson is a former elementary teacher and the author of many children's nonfiction books in the First Step Nonfiction, Pull Ahead, and Start to Finish series. --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.


Columbus Day (On My Own Holidays)

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Grade 1-3-- This informative, easy-to-read book presents some basic facts about Columbus's life and voyages, explains the origins of the holiday, and attempts to deal with the man's role as invader as well as explorer. Liestman tells, in clear but simple terms, why 15th-century Europeans wanted a sea route to Eastern Asia, gives a few details about Columbus's voyage, and relates how, after landing, Columbus and his men saw the friendly Indians as potential slaves and behaved accordingly. She explains that Columbus's men began to lose respect for him (but does not mention that he fell out of favor in Spain as well), and then shifts, rather abruptly, to his death in 1506. She concludes with a plea to remember the Native Americans who died as a result of his voyage and "that when we explore, we must be good to the life we meet along the way." The writing is occasionally choppy, but Liestman has made one of the few attempts to deal objectively with Columbus for this audience. Hanson's watercolors provide appropriate illustrations; there is no map of the voyages. The book is free of the fictionalization that mars Robert Young's Let's Celebrate Christopher Columbus (Silver Press, 1991) and is an excellent choice for beginning readers' reports and classroom discussion. --Jean H. Zimmerman, Willett School, South River, NJ
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Relates the story of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus and gives the history of Columbus Day. 



Columbus Day (Rookie Read-About Holidays)




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The popular Rookie Books expand their horizons - to all corners of the globe! With this series all about geography, emergent readers will take off on adventures to cities, nations, waterways, and habitats around the world…and right in their own backyards.

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Christina Mia Gardeski is the author of several nonfiction books for children.

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