Picturing America
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What Is Picturing America?
Picturing America, an exciting new initiative from the National Endowment for the Humanities, brings masterpieces of American art into classrooms and libraries nationwide. Through this innovative program, students and citizens will gain a deeper appreciation of our country’s history and character through the study and understanding of its art. For more information, please visit the Picturing America website.
Winners of the Tall Tale Writing Contest, 2010
About We the People
We the People is an NEH program designed to encourage and enhance the teaching, study, and understanding of American history, culture, and democratic principles.
The We the People Bookshelf is a set of classic books for young readers from Kindergarten through high school. Each year NEH identifies a theme important to the nation's heritage and selects books that embody that theme. NEH awards the Bookshelves to libraries across the country for use in programs primarily for young people.
The We the People “Picturing America” Bookshelf is the literary complement of NEH’s Picturing AmericaSM visual arts project. Instead of paint, marble, silver, or glass, words are the media used to portray significant themes in American history and culture.
Our "Picturing America" Bookshelf
Kindergarten to Grade 3
Walt Whitman: Words for America Barbara Kerley (jBiography Whitman, Walt)
Cosechando esperanza: La historia de Cesar Chavez Kathleen Krull (translated by Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy (jSpanish jBiography Chavez, Cesar)
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez Kathleen Krull (jBiography Chavez, Cesar)
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (j811.34 L86mr)
Sweet Music in Harlem Debbie Taylor (Picture Book Taylor)
Grades 4 to 6
The Birchbark House Louise Erdrich (jFiction Erdrich)
American Tall Tales Mary Pope Osborne (j398.22 Os1a)
On the Wings of Heroes Richard Peck (jFiction Peck)
Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule Harriette Gillem Robinet (jFiction Robinet)
The Captain's Dog: My Journey with the Lewis and Clark Tribe Roland Smith (Teen Fiction Smith)
Grades 7 to 8
The Life and Death of Crazy Horse Russell Freedman (Teen Biography Crazy Horse)
La leyenda de Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving (jSpanish jFiction Irving)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving (jFiction Irving)
Across America on an Emigrant Train Jim Murphy (j828.803 M954a)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain (Teen Fiction Twain)
