H Is for Hawkeye: An Iowa Alphabet

This book provides good details of life in Iowa that children can understand. Good info to use for reports or for younger students. Sidebar information also helpful for residents just wanting more history on the state in which they live!

A very pleasant picture book for preschoolers, as well as a compendium of additional information for independent readers. Highly recommened. I am pleased that another adult reviewer prizes her book. However, the persons in Grant Wood's American Gothic are his sister Nan and his dentist. Picture is on loan from the Chicago Art Institue to the Cedar Rapids [IA] Museum of Art this fall [2005.] Wood was a long-time teacher in the Cedar Rapids public schools.

I was given this book as a baby gift because I grew up in Iowa. By reading this book, I learned things about the state that I never knew. For instance, I did not know that the American Gothic painting is really a farmer and his daughter. H is for Hawkeye will be a keepsake for my family. I will be able to show my son pictures of and information about the state I was raised in. I like the format with the simple rhymes and the additional paragraphs with more information about each letter's detail. The illustrations are very well done and appealling. I will be giving this book to several children this holiday season and I will be looking at other state alphabet books in this series. This is a wonderful way to teach history and geography of our great country.