Miss Lady Bird's Wildflowers

Title: Miss Lady Bird's Wildflowers
Author: Kathi Appelt
Illustrator: Joy Fisher Hein
Genre: Historical Fiction

Kathi Appelt is a woman who has written a large variety of children's books. Kathi Appelt first learned about Lady Bird Johnson from her grandmother, who worked on the presidential campaign in 1964. This story talks about a little girl who's mother passed away of an illness and how she lived on to find happiness and go to college in 1930 when it was very uncommon for woman, and become a successful grown woman and got married four years later! The entire time from when she was young, to older with children, the story kept the importance of the flowers and trees and the beauty in the outdoors and wildflowers.

This story could teach a lot about our history. One lesson I would teach my class with this book is how unlikely it was for woman to go to college back in the day and the reasons why. Another important factor that would be fun to teach a classroom based on this book is the beauty and the importance of our fields of wildflowers and how they grow and how it is okay to have one thing that is important to you that you go to when you are having a hard time in your life. It is okay to have a "get away" spot, and this spot for Miss Lady Bird was in any area full of trees, flowers, or anything that grows outside, she found beauty in it and it is important to take a step back and see the beauty in the things we see everyday.