We the Kids

This is a fun book showing an example of politcal cartoons. This a cute book that paralles or help children remember the concept of the constitution.
It has very simple reading good for first graders.

"We the Kids: The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States" by David Catrow fills a nitch in the elementary school classroom. Most reading materials about the Constitution are often considered by students to be too dry or complicated. Not this book. Catrow not only includes a handy

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Preamble dictionary at the beginning of the book (Preamble: The first part of something, an introduction; Promote the General Welfare: To help make life good for everybody. Having enough to eat, a place to live, being safe, and having friends and fun times are some of things that make our lives good), but also drew cartoons to illustrate each important point of the Preamble. Some may consider the pencil and walercolor illustrations a little too zany, but most children will probably appreciate Catrow's comical drawings of three kids and a dog acting out the "big words and big ideas" of the document.

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Cute way of presenting the Preamble to children. I liked it!

This explanation og the preamble of the U.S. Constitution is really well done, and though the illustrations are a bit abstract it does the job of turning the preamble into something that actually makes sense. I wouldn't recommend it for primary grades, because it's still high level even with the

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simplification, but it helps in the intermediate grades if a child has the patience for learning about the U.S. Constitution.

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This is a great book to help students learn about the Preamble to the Constitution. You need to first read the page about Big Words, Big Ideas to the students. This sets the stage on what they will be reading about and help them get an idea on what some of the big words are about. The pictures are

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bright and very colorful. He points out that you need to pay attention to the dog in the story because he showed what all the words meant through his actions. I would recommend this book especially to younger readers. It shows us how to be good citizens and why the constitution was written. It opens up an opportunity to study about freedom, liberty and our founding fathers.

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We the kids is an informational book that informs children about the Preamble to the Constitution. I didn’t like this though it wasn’t a bad book, I just did not enjoy it and feel a child would not as well. I didn’t like it because the whole book is just the Preamble to the Constitution. I

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found this pointless and didn’t really understand why the author didn’t explain what the Preamble meant in the actual book because in the beginning in an author’s note he discussed his experience with the Preamble and explain what each part meant. I felt unsure about why the author would do this. I feel this is something that should have been part of the text in the book, not in an author’s note since the book’s overall purpose was to inform the reader about the preamble to the Constitution. Also, while the text didn’t explain much, the pictures were beautifully drawn and I feel the reader worked hard to have the pictures convey the Preamble ‘s meaning, for example having a picture of a father and mother in the house when saying “To ourselves and our Posterity” but without reading the author’s note and having the information I have about the Preamble I would have never understood from this picture what that meant. In the end though I feel it was a beautifully drawn book with attention to detail I feel it didn’t inform the reader enough.

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This story has adorable illustrations, and brings states only the text of the preamble, however does so in a comical manner in which young readers can comprehend

Ages 4-7