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Building Liberty: A Statue is Born

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I was not clear when I purchased this book that it was designed to reach the attention of children. As such, I think it is a great children's story. However, it would have been better if the seller made it clear that it was a children's book.

Building Liberty is the story of several people who had a part in making the Statue of Liberty happen - a young engineering apprentice in France, a boy working on the ship that brought Liberty to the U.S.A., a boy who sold newspapers in New York and helped raise money for the pedestal for the statue, and one man who helped put Liberty together after she arrived in the U.S.A.. I read this to my second grade daughter as part of her homeschooling curriculum. Each person in the book is of a different ethnic group, and the book contains a little biographical note about each person. The story communicated well how the Statue of Liberty was a gift from France and how the American people thought about Liberty.