PURPLE MOUNTAIN MAJESTIES

Barbara Younger, , illus. by Stacey Schuett. . Puffin, $6.99 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-14-230181-4

"How a trip taken by Katherine Lee Bates inspired the poem that became 'America the Beautiful' makes a quaint story," wrote PW. "The appealing folk art brims with period particulars as well as sprawling renderings of those natural wonders that well deserve Bates's tribute." Ages 3-8. (May)

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