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The Children's Book of America

By: William J. Bennett
Narrated by: Hinton Battle, Elayne Glover Bennett, William J. Bennett
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Publisher's summary

Where did America come from? What does it mean to be an American? What makes America great? No volume will provide more compelling and inspiring answers to our children's questions than William Bennett's marvelous new treasury, The Children's Book of America. Filled with history and folktales, songs and poems, heroes and everyday Americans, this indispensable audiobook is aclassic collection of great Americana.

This lasting testament to our beloved country features performances by:

Elayne Bennett

Hinton Battle

John McMartin

Phylicia Rashad

The Children's Book of America is a marvelous celebration of our nation's history and spirit for the youngest Americans.

©1998 William J. Bennett (P)2004 Simon & Schuster
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The Hard Cover Has More Stories In It.

Love this book. William J. Bennett includes beautiful compilations of American history in this great book for children. In the audio you will here, "The Legend of the Grand Canyon", "The Pilgrims and the First Thanksgiving", "Westward With Lewis and Clark", "Paul Bunyan", "Yankee Doodle", "The Story of the Star Spangled Banner", Remember the Alamo", "The Tale of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot", "Margaret of New Orleans", "John Henry and the Steam Drill", "The New Colossus", (Poem of Statue of Liberty), "Martin Luther King's Dream", and the "Eagle Has Landed". But there are so many more stories included in the Hard Copy. It made me sad those stories were not included in the audible version. Stories of Abraham Lincoln, Johnny Appleseed, Robert Lee and a few others. I would love a revised version that included all of these as my children and I follow along in our book. Otherwise, this is a fantastic book to share history not mentioned much in today's school system.

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If you could sum up The Children's Book of America in three words, what would they be?

Engaging, Diverse, Patriotic

What did you like best about this story?

I enjoyed the transition between all of the songs and the stories

What about the narrators’s performance did you like?

Since there were multiple narrators, the book did not get monotone or boring

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