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A Kids' Guide to America's Bill of Rights: Curfews, Censorship, and the 100-Pound Giant
Which 462 words are so important that they've changed American history more than once? The Bill of Rights: the first ten amendments to the Constitution, the crucial document that spells out how the United States is to be governed.Find out what the Bill of Rights is and how it affects your daily life in this fascinating look at the history, significance, and mysteries of th...more
Hardcover, 240 pages
Published
October 6th 1999
by HarperCollins
(first published 1999)
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Nov 12, 2011
Rebecca
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
anybody (not just kids) who wants to learn more about the Bill of Rights
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My parents bought this book for me when I was eight and still convinced that I wanted to be President. Eight years later, it's my go-to for information about the Bill of Rights (especially now that I'm taking AP US History), though I have since abandoned dreams of being the President.
This is a book written for kids, so the book doesn't use difficult language. However, it also doesn't skirt around issues that some might feel should be left out of a kids' book. After all, how well are you going t...more
This is a book written for kids, so the book doesn't use difficult language. However, it also doesn't skirt around issues that some might feel should be left out of a kids' book. After all, how well are you going t...more
I can't remember how many times we learned about the founding of America, the colonies, the Revolution, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and, of course, the Bill of Rights. We rarely got past World War II, but those 50 years or so between 1750 and 1800 were hammered into our brains over and over again. This is a book that would make that hammering a little less painless. It wades through the reasons for the Bill of Rights, the development of the document, key players, and each a...more
A Kids’ Guide to America’s Bill of Rights begins with an overview of the Bill of Rights, the first 10 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The overview is followed by three chapters about the First Amendment and then includes one chapter about each subsequent Amendment. Each chapter contains the wording of the Amendment, examples to clarify the Amendment, an idea of which rights the authors of the Bill of Rights intended to protect, and a discussion of Supreme Court cases involving the Amendment...more
We are learning about the beginnings of our country and how it affected other peoples wanting to democratize or become independent. I picked this book up because it is an accessible way to better understand the important section of the Constitution that the states' representatives demanded be added in order to approve the document that set up the format of the new government. The Bill of RIghts is all about the individual's rights and protection FROM the government. Our founding fathers were ver...more
In this well researched, well-written book, Krull describes the history of the Bill of Rights and remarks on its significance, historically and for our future. She begins by giving props to James Madison, the "100 pound giant" responsible for creating the Bill of Rights and goes on to relay the explanation behind each amendment, and weaving in recent issues to show how relevant the 462 words of the Bill of Rights still are today.
Krull is a strong youth advocate. Many of the court cases she menti...more
Krull is a strong youth advocate. Many of the court cases she menti...more
I love the idea of this book but found a slight liberal bias here. More importantly however, is that it was published around 1998 and events post 9/11 have created a new lens to examine the Bill of Rights. I would probably give more stars to a updated edition.
I learned more about the Bill of Rights from this book than I ever learned in high school I would recommend it to high schoolers taking AP government to make the Supreme Court cases more real.
Read it ahead of the girls and set up assignments to go with it. Good civics book!
Brings the Bill of Rights vividly to life...even for me!
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