Exploring the many diverse traditions and the rich history that have shaped the culture of the Lone Star State, a colorful young reader' introduction brings together historic photographs, portraits of important people, and hundreds of facts.
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From School Library Journal
Grade 5-8. Texas is a big, big state. So any overview less comprehensive than The New Handbook of Texas (6 vols., 7000 pages) inevitably sports a shotgun approach to addressing the sprawling potpourri of the people and places in the Lone Star State. Still, native Texan Turner has done a respectable, if a tad feminist and mutliculturally biased job of presenting Texas to a young audience no doubt aware of the physical enormity of the state but clueless to its multicultural legacy. Almost every page has boxes or sidebars with tidbits of trivia that supplement the narratives on the ethnic, geographical, historical, artistic, and ceremonial diversity of a state that has flown (at least) six flags over the past five centuries. Turner, a professed "yellow-dog" Democrat, provides historical emphases that add their own curious color to this book as, for example, a one-page summary of "Servants of the State" features photographs of two women and one man. Heavily illustrated with current and archival photographs, newspaper clippings, broadsides, etc., and an eclectic selection of paintings, Texas Traditions would be a useful supplement to the drier, didactic textbooks Texas schoolchildren must embrace. Young residents of the other 49 states probably won't mind the colorful and cursory approach the author takes to making this state's history palatable if somewhat overwhelming.?John Sigwald, Unger Memorial Library, Plainview, TX
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Gr. 4^-8. Diversity is the theme of this carefully written, intelligent, and timely study. It examines the influences that various ethnic groups have had on the geographical, historical, social, and cultural fabric of the Lone Star State. The book is handsomely illustrated with full-color reproductions of paintings, photographs, posters, and maps, many from archival sources. Although she is clearly proud of her home state, the author acknowledges that "new and better" solutions to urban problems (crime, pollution, etc.) must be explored. In addition to the lengthy bibliography and acknowledgments, evidence of her extensive research is seen in her inclusion of topics such as folk medicine, home schooling, cowboy poets, and the original rodeo. As the author of the well-received Portrait of Women Artists for Children series, Turner makes it a point to note the contributions of Texas women. Julie Corsaro
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