Book List

Annotated Boolist

Videos

These videos are fun, and filled with information that can be shared with students throughout the U.S. Government unit.

America Rock, produced by Scholastic Rock, Inc.: 1995.

Election Day, produced by Schlessinger Video Productions: 1996.

Presidents Day, produced and directed by Nancy Glass Productions, Inc. : 2003.

Shh! We’re Writing the Constitution, by Jean Fritz: 1990.

What’s the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?, produced by Weston Woods by King Productions: 1993. 

Fiction Books

While you learn about our government, check out these fun books that have a patriotic theme.

Arthur Meets the President

Marc Brown: 1992

Arthur writes an essay the wins him the chance to read it to the President at the White House.  Will he get cold feet?

 

Clifford for President

By Acton Figueroa: 2004

Emily Elizabeth nominates Clifford to be the President of the dog park. 


 

Call Me Madam President

By Sue Pyatt: 2003

Amanda dreams of becoming the President of the United States.

 

 

Clifford for President

By Acton Figueroa: 2004

Emily Elizabeth nominates Clifford to be the President of the dog park. Duck for President

Doreen Cronin: 2004

Duck gets tired of working Farmer Brown and decides to run for President.  Could he be the first duck in the White House?

 

Grace for President

Kelly S. DiPucchio: 2008

Grace decides to run in her school’s mock election after learning that there has never been a female United States president.  She learns about the U.S. electoral system and sets out to be the best person for the job even though her opponent seems to be winning all the boys’ votes.  Will she be elected?  Or will Thomas, her opponent, be elected? 

 

My Teacher for President

Kay Winters: 2004

A second grader writes to a television station with reasons why his teacher would make a good president but only if she can continue teaching until the end of the year.

Booklist

Use these books to expand your knowledge about the U.S. Government.  This collection lists several books under subheadings under the general government topic.

 

President

Barack Obama, by Stephen Feistein: 2008.

Día del presidente, by Rebecca Rissman: 2011.

El día de los presidentes, by Mir Tamim Ansary: 2003.

Electing the President, by Barbara Silberdick: 1995.

I Want to be President, by Daniel Liebman: 2009.

Inauguration Day, by Zeb Wells: 2011.

Independence Hall, by Tamara Britton: 2003.

Lives of the Presidents: Fame, Shame, and (what the neighbors thought), by Kathleen Krull: 1998.

Los Presidentes, by Carol Greene: 1989.

Meet President Barack Obama, by Laine Falk: 2009.

Presidents, by James Barber: 2000.

So You Want to be President, by Judith St. George: 2000.

The Presidency, by Patricia Ryon Quiri: 1998.

What Presidents are Made of, by Hanoch Piven: 2004.

 

Supreme Court

A Picture Book of Thurgood Marshall, by David Adler: 1997.

Everyone Counts: a citizen’s number book, by Elissa Grodin: 2006.

Meet my grandmother: She’s a Supreme Court Justice, by Lisa Tucker McElroy: 1999.

¿Por qué tenemos leyes?, by Jacqueline Laks Gorman: 2008.

So, What is Justince Anyway?, by Chelsea Luthringer: 2000.

Sonia Sotomayor: a Judge Grows in the Bronx=la juez que creció en el Bronx, by Jonah Winter: 2009.

Sonia Sotomayor: Supreme Court Justice, by Zella Williams: 2011.

The Supreme Court, by Patricia Ryon Quiri: 1998.

Thurgood Marshall: a dream of justice for all, by Stuart A. Kallan: 1993.

What It’s Like to be Sonia Sotomayor=Qué se siente al ser Sonia Sotomayor, by Tammy Gagne: 2011.

What’s the Supreme Court: First Guide to Government, by Nancy Harris: 2007.

 

Congress

The Capitol, by Tamara Britton: 2003.

 

U.S. Symbols

La historia de la Casa Blanca, by Kate Waters, 1993.The White House, by Deborah Kent: 1994.

Mount Rushmore, by Marion Dane: 2007.

 

Government

¿Cómo elegimos a nuestros líderes? by William Thomas: 2008.

¿Cuáles son los derechos básicos de los cuidadanos?, by William Thomas: 2008.

¿Cuáles son las partes del gobierno?, by William Thomas: 2008.

D is for Democracy: a Citizen’s Alphabet, by Elissa Grodin: 2004.

Election Day, Patricia J. Murphy: 2002.

First Children: Growing Up in the White House, by Katherine Leiner: 1995.

First Ladies, by Amy Pastan: 2001.

Great African Americans in Government, by Karen Dudley, :1997.

I Can Be President, too!, Yanitzia Canetti: 2009.

La carta de derechos, by David Armentrout: 2006.

La carta de derechos, by Warren Colman: 1989.

La Declaración de Independencia, by David Armentrout: 2006.

La Declaración de Independencia, by Dennis Fradin: 1989.

La constitución, by David Armentrout: 2006.

La constitución, by Warren Colman: 1989.

¿Qué es una constitución?, by William Thomas: 2008.

¿Quiénes gobiernan nuestro país? by Jacqueline Laks: 2008.

The Bill of Rights, by Michael Burgan: 2002.

The Bill of Rights, by Patricia Ryon Quiri: 1998.

The Constitution, by Patricia Ryon Quiri: 1998.

The Constitution and the Bill of Rights: by Wil Coleman, 1999.

The Declaration of Independence, Patricia Ryon Quiri:1998.

The U.S. Constitution, by Christine Peterson: 2007.

The U.S. Constitution, by Pearl Norman: 2007.

The White House Kids, by Rose Blue: 1995.

Una union más perfecta: la historia de nuestra constitución: by Betsy Mastro: 1992.

Voting in elections, Terri DeGezelle: 2005.

We the Kids: the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States, by David Catrow: 2002.

 

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