Customer Reviews

Purple Mountain Majesties (Reading Railroad Books)

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Purple Mountain Majesties is one of the only books I have read that delightfully combine history, information, story telling, and beautiful pictures together. And this has been done in such a way as to make this book enjoyable to read by any one of any age. Barbara Younger brings Katherine Lee Bates and here poem America the Beautiful to life for us. And sometimes we need reminders of just how beautiful America really is! Hats off to Barbara and Stacey for quite an excellent book!

This historical biography is terrific! It paints a beautiful picture, both in illustration and in words, of the life of Katharine Lee Bates. Her story is captured brilliantly in the pages of this book and I recommend it to children and adults of all ages. The illustrations are simply gorgeous and the story coincides perfectly. Be sure to look for the "hidden flag" on the first and last pages! A definite must-have for any story collection.

This is a beautiful book with amazing illustrations which give added meaning to the words to "America the Beautiful" and some history on how it was written. My disappointment with the book was that it did not include the words to the song only excerpts here and there. So, this book is better suited to a reader who already knows the song. My primary school age child doesn't know the song yet so it was a teachable moment, but an older child would appreciate it more.