America the Beautiful



Title: America the Beautiful
Author: Katharine Lee Bates & Wendell Minor
Illustrator: Wendell Minor
Type: Non-Fiction
Approximate Interest Level: 1st-12th
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Date of Publication: 2003
ISBN: 978-0399238857

Synopsis: The text to the Song America the Beautiful accompanied by beautiful paintings of what each line in the song means.  The book also includes a short biography of Katharine Lee Bates and Samuel Augustus Ward, the sheet music for the song, and an explanation of what each painting in the book represents.

Possible Teaching Points: 1) poetry, 2) American civics

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