Chris, for the Woody Guthrie bio, a nice companion book would be the picture book version of "This Land Is Your Land" with illustrations by Kathy Jakobsen; comes with a CD with a few songs performed by both Woody and Arlo...
John Erickson (of Hank the Cowdog fame) has written a terrific Texas Prohibition era book called "Moonshiner's Gold." Ranch life in the 1920s in the Texas Panhandle during the early years of the Texas oil boom.
Great suggestions, both -- thanks a bunch. Camille, S adores Hank the Cowdog -- is "Moonshiner's Gold" written in the same light, comic style accessible to a seven-year-old, or is it for older readers?
Hmmm...seven...second grade? It is not happy clappy the way Hank is but it is a good story. Probably a little old for him. Maybe next year, third/fourth grade. You would enjoy it I bet. I nominated it for the Texas Bluebonnet list but I think one line about some "ladies in outlandish dress" standing on a street corner of the boomtown, nixed it. That was a few years ago. Given some of the Bluebonnet selections on recent lists that line seems pretty tame. sigh. It would have been a great Bluebonnet book.
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