DRT Alamo and Revolution Juvenile Bibliography

The Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library issued back in 2004 a juvenile bibliography on the Alamo and the Texas Revolution. It consists of about 60 titles, 1/3 fiction and 2/3 non-fiction. The YTR thanks them for allowing the posting of those individual citations and annotations and thanks to the Library staff, especially, Elaine Davis and the list's compiler Lucy Olson. Those postings will often be supplemented with other information on the title. The bibliography's full title and introduction appears below.

THE ALAMO AND THE TEXAS REVOLUTION

An Annotated Bibliography for Parents and Teachers

Kindergarten through Grade 8

"This bibliography is intended to be a guide for parents and teachers who are teaching the history of the Alamo and the Texas Revolution. Books are the only media contained in the list, and most of them were published between 1995 and 2004. Currently available, in-print books are the focus of the bibliography; out-of-print books are included when a topic is not covered by an in-print equivalent. Features that may be of use to teachers are indicated and points that may distract from the study of history are mentioned."

Compiled by Lucie Olson, Reference Librarian

Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library at the Alamo

San Antonio, Texas

Revised May 2004

http://www.drtl.org/

Teaching Texas History - DeBoe, TSHA

Teaching Texas History: An All-Level Resource Guide,

2nd Revised Edition. By David C. De Boe. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1996. ISBN 0-87611-091-X. 8 1/2 x 11 in., vii + 153 pp. Paper, $15.95 TSHA Member's price, $12.76 http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/publications/books/teaching.html

This plain looking, gray, spiral bound volume plainly ought to be in about every public library system and college library of a general nature in Texas, to say nothing of the public schools, even though it is 10 years old. Now that’s a big statement, but the volume is simply packed with Texana sources for the youngsters and teaching material for the adults. TSHA in its usual fine commitment to public education has recently arranged the printing a few more copies courtesy of the Houston Chronicle, so quit piddling around and get a copy. Its official focus is on history and geography, but it really goes further.

Aside from the many formats addressed from atlases to periodicals to posters to Spanish language material to videos and more, DeBoe made sure that Barbara Immroth, editor of Texas in Children’s Books, 1986, assisted in compiling the “Juvenile Books” section (pages 87 to120) which includes fiction. All total, there may be 500 annotated titles through the volume. Yes, the 2-pager on internet resources, which is little more than a recommendation to the still good Armadillo Gopher, is in retrospect demonstrates just what has happened in the last decade. Acquiring and using this volume can invigorate yourself or your collection and provide an excellent baseline for collecting. While some of the purchase prices may be out of date, much of the free material may still be.

The reign of successful juvenile Texana can rise from this volume’s paper planes.

Wildflower Books Bibliography

Lotsa Pretty Pictures and Some Nerdy Science

Some Recent Publications, 2005 on back

A dictionary of common wildflowers of Texas & the Southern Great Plains / written and compiled by Joel E. Holloway; edited by Amanda Neill. Fort Worth: TCU Press, 2005.

Texas in bloom: a wildflower guide for children / Jane Scoggins Bauld; photographs by Gayle Waldrip. Austin, Tex.: Eakin Press, c2004

Wildflowers across Texas / photography by Laurence Parent; foreword by Laura Bush; essay by Patricia Caperton Parent. Portland, Or: Graphic Arts Center, c2002.

Wildflowers and other plants of Texas beaches and islands / Alfred Thomas Richardson. Austin: University of Texas Press, c2002.

McMillen's Texas gardening: wildflowers / Contributors: Paul Cox, Janis Merritt, and Jim Molony. Houston, Texas: Gulf Publishing Company, 1998.

Legends & lore of Texas wildflowers / Elizabeth Silverthorne. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, c1996.

Wild flowers of Houston / John & Gloria Tveten; photographs by the authors. Houston, Tex.: Rice University Press, c1993.

Texas wildflowers: a children's field guide to the state's most common flowers / text by Beverly Magley; illustrations by D.D. Dowden. Billings, Mont.: Falcon Press, c1993.

Wildflowers across America / by Lady Bird Johnson and Carlton Lees; photographs selected by Les Line. New York: Abbeville Press, 1988.

Wildflowers of the Texas hill country / by Marshall Enquist. Austin, Texas: Lone Star Botanical, c1987.

Wildflowers of the Llano Estacado / Francis L. Rose and Russell Strandtmann. Dallas, Tex.: Taylor Pub. Co., 1986.

South Texas wild flowers: collection one / text by Hal Ham; illustrated by Martha Bruce. Kingsville, Tex.: Conner Museum, Texas A&I University; [College Station, Tex.: distributed by Texas A&M University Press], 1984.

Wild flowers of Texas / by Geyata Ajilvsgi. Bryan, Tex: Shearer Pub., c1984, updated recently.