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    America the Beautiful
    America the Beautiful
    America the Beautiful
    Audiobook39 minutes

    America the Beautiful

    Written by Kim Mitzo Thompson

    Narrated by Various Contributors

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    About this audiobook

    Sing, march, and celebrate our freedoms with this collection of 10 patriotic songs! Children will learn facts about the United States and have fun doing it! This America the Beautiful album is perfect for introducing your child to the history of the United States!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTwin Sisters
    Release dateJan 1, 2005
    ISBN9781467638920
    America the Beautiful
    Author

    Kim Mitzo Thompson

    Kim Mitzo Thompson has been a children’s author, record producer, and publishing executive along with her twin sister Karen Mitzo Hilderbrand for over 29 years. Known as the Twin Sisters®, the duo have written thousands of products for children including over 3,300 songs, 550 digital albums, 250 e-books, 550 teacher resources, 15 apps, hundreds of books, and more! Thousands of their physical products can be found on Amazon and are distributed by various publishers worldwide. Their digital products are available on all major music streaming sites, e-book sites, audiobook sites, and teacher downloadable resource sites. Besides being authors, the fraternal twins run two companies, Creative IP, LLC and Twin Sisters IP, LLC. Both companies are dedicated to creating and licensing exceptional products worldwide. Kim's past experience as an elementary school teacher, lecturer, and television personality brings product development and sales expertise to the organization.

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    • 5/5
      The picture book, “America the Beautiful”, is a wonderful take on the classic poetic song. The first reason why I liked this book was that at the beginning of the book, the book opened with the song and notes. This shows the reader the musical notes that correlate to the song and which keys are to be played at the specific time. The next reason why I enjoyed reading this book was because of the illustrations. The illustrations were absolutely beautiful. The illustrations are painted famous landmarks in America. The illustrator painted many places such as Mount Rushmore, Red Wood trees, and the Grand Canyon. My favorite illustration was the picture of a waterfall. The illustrator used fine detail, small dots, and an array of colors such as purple, green, pink, and white in order to make the waterfall look as realistic as possible. The main idea of this book was to display beautiful illustrated pictures to go along with the song, “America the Beautiful”.
    • 3/5
      America the Beautiful, illustrated by Chris Gall.Acting on the recommendation of a friend, I recently requested the picture-book presentation of this lovely American song, with accompanying artwork by Wendell Minor, from my local library, only to receive this edition with illustrations by Chris Gall instead. I'm glad the mishap occurred - although I will still be tracking down a copy of the Wendell Minor version - as this is really a lovely book, and a wonderful tribute to one of America's most well-known patriotic songs. Composed as a poem in 1893, and published two years later in the pages of The Congregationalist, a Boston-based church periodical, America the Beautiful is a celebration of the natural beauty of our nation, and of the moral beauty of its history of immigration and struggle for freedom. The words of the song - O beautiful for spacious skies, / For amber waves of grain, / For purple mountains majesties / Above the fruited plain!" - provided the text, and are paired with gorgeous hand engravings that have been digitized and presented in color.I found it very interesting that the artist here, Chris Gall, was the great-great-grandnephew of poet Katharine Lee Bates, who composed these words, and that he grew up in a home with a heirloom copy of the poem, in Bates' own handwriting, framed on the wall. That hand-written copy provides the inspiration for the decorative endpapers here, while the color engravings, which are really just beautiful, capture the spirit of each verse (or piece of verse) in the piece. I appreciated many of the artistic choices that Gall made, and the diverse peoples and time periods - the Lewis and Clark expedition, the Tuskegee Airmen, the steamship immigrants of the later 19th and early 20th centuries, the firemen who raised the flag in the rubble after 9/11 - he included in his work. I grew up singing this song, and it was a pleasure to be reminded of it. Now I'll have to see how Wendell Minor's visual interpretation of these words matches up!