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Lady Liberty: A Biography (2008)

by Doreen Rappaport(Favorite Author)

4.01 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0763625302 (ISBN13: 9780763625306)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Candlewick Press

review 1: This children's picture book is filled with real information about the Statue of Liberty and how it came to be. I would share this book in a history until as well since it talks about America and how it became a place for freedom for others coming into the United States looking for freedom. Since this book is based on real things that people did and said throughout history, I think that this would help grab the students attention and want to continue to read to see how other things in history persuaded other historical landmarks to be made. Even though this book is rather lengthy and filled with a lot of information that would be hard for a younger grade to comprehend, I think it would be a great read-aloud for a class that could be discussed as a group. This book has ... moresome amazing illustrations that make it a lot easier to understand exactly what is going on.
review 2: The story of not only the Statue of Liberty, but of those people involved with her creation, as well as the millions of immigrants whose first vision of America was Lady Liberty greeting them upon their arrival in New York Harbor. The book is told from the perspective of many. From Edouard De Laboulaye who first proposed the erection of a statue as a gift from the people of France to the citizens of The United States in celebration of the centennial of the founding of the country, to Joseph Pulitzer who organized successful fundraising for the erection of the statue's base and pedestal. The illustrations are superbly rendered and show in great detail the birth of the statue in Auguste Bartholdi's Paris workshop, the erection of the statue on Bedloe's Island, and all of the pageantry and spectacle of Liberty's dedication in October of 1886.The book as a whole is extremely well done, and a pleasure to look at. less

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