When her second-grade classmates are envious of the three students who are going away on winter vacation, the creative and ingenious Gooney Bird Greene thinks of a geography activity to cheer them all up.
Text and illustrations represent each of the fifty states, providing information about important people, ideas, and events in the history of the United States.
Presents hundreds of unique facts about each of the states, describing strange festivals, traditions, contests, laws, people, and landmarks across the country.
Simple text and photographs introduce basic community concepts related to states including locations, places in a state, and differences between states.
A young baker sets off on a journey across the United States to gather all the things she will need to bake a cherry pie, including coal for the oven, cherries for the pie, and glass for the measuring cup.