Today on Election Day

by David Leonard, Catherine Stier (Illustrator)

Overview

The school gym is a polling place and Bailey, Ren, David, Meg, Aiden, and Isabella know all about Election Day and voting! Bailey helped her Aunt Julia run for a seat on the city council. Aiden goes with his grandpa to vote. David's brother Jake will be voting for the first time. Meg talks about how years ago, some citizens were not permitted to vote. A perfect picture book for future voters of America, Today on Election Day will simultaneously entertain and educate.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807593301
Publisher:	Whitman, Albert & Company
Publication date:	07/01/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	8 MB
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Catherine Stier is the author of more than 20 children's books including the Science Makes it Work picture book series and the Kirkus star-reviewed A Dog's Day chapter book series. She holds a master’s degree in reading and literacy and has served as a magazine writer, newspaper columnist, and writing instructor. Stier resides in San Antonio, Texas.

Editorial Reviews

Gr 2–4—This title shows children participating in the electoral process as "future voters" while their school is made into a polling location and their relatives participate as both new and veteran voters. Expressive watercolor sketches depicting cheerful students give the book flair. The text is readable and upbeat. Several students narrate, offering a brief history of voting rights, discussing what it means to be class president, and sharing stories about relatives who vote or run for office. The alternating narrators and the inclusion of a plethora of events make the text occasionally hard to follow. It is also printed in a small font size. Ultimately, though, this is a welcome purchase, especially in an election year.—Jenna Boles, Washington-Centerville Public Library, Hunterville, OH

School Library Journal

A proudly buoyant tour of Election Day in the U.S.A. This spry salute to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November generates a significant amount of positive energy. Only through active engagement in the process--informing yourself, going to the polling station--will you be tapping into the possibilities of the system. Everything else is just so much hot air. Stier neither belabors nor stints on the text. There is a decent amount of information to be imparted, if only to acquaint readers with political parties, campaigns, Congress, the history of the vote, Constitutional amendments, debates and voting, and it is done in an easy, if modestly didactic voice. It has the genuine ring of smart young students giving the oral presentation of their civics projects, sweet and serious. Stier situates the activity around the children's school, and Leonard makes the most of the setting, giving it the warm, watercolor cast of a small town, yet modern in its computer voting machines. And all ages are involved, young to old, with the finger squarely placed on the importance of 18-year-olds assuming this mantle of importance. Future voters of the world, unite. The vote, Stier makes clear, is a great gift we have given ourselves. (Informational picture book. 6-9)

Kirkus Reviews