What Is the Statue of Liberty? (What Was?)

The book, What is the Statue of Liberty, is an excellent read. It tells the history and the importance of the Statue of Liberty in America. It is a great read for a third or fourth grader. The book series is a nonfiction read that children enjoy, but also teaches them. For us, this book added visiting the Statue of Liberty to our bucket list and we hope to one day go!

I am a teacher and I love to read to my kids. They really loved this book and I was excited to add this to our book library.

My grandchildren love it.

I bought this book for my daughter to do a book report. It was chalk full of information and pictures. Detailed enough for me to learn a lot about the gifting and making of the statue. This book gave side notes about the people involved and other great accomplishments they made, such as Eiffel creating the infrastructure of the statue and also creating the Eiffel tower. I felt this was a very well done book for kids without underestimating children's ability to absorb and learn. It pulled at my patriotic heartstrings and the shared desire and love for democracy and liberty.

This book provides an excellent and easy to understand history of the Statue of Liberty. The book goes into a lot of detail about the planning and execution of the building of the statue as well as providing the cultural backdrop of the people and times. Definitely a great book to read especially if you’re going to be visiting the statue.

brought it as a supplement to a project i did with kindergarten - they liked the pictures - it fostered great discussion about freedom, america, france, liberty. loved the pics of the statue as it was being put together. saving it for when my kid is older. information is presented very well.

The book talks about how this man loved the way the United States had their government working. He wanted to give them a gift so he held a donation and he built the statue with his group. Then he needed help making the statue not fall so he asked his friend Gustav Eiffel and he made a metal skeleton for the inside. So he made the skeleton. Once it was done they took it piece by piece and put it in containers and sent it to the U.S. The statue had been there since 1885.

A wonderful book for our history interested first grader....even her grandmother gas found the book extremely factual. Every young child should be reading these books for a grand entrance to U.S. History. Just the best!

Loved it