My First Book About Iowa

Simple text and illustrations explain university life.

This workbook presents facts and figures about the state of Kansas. Includes "fill in the blank" questions and "draw a picture" exercises.

Iowa State University 101 is required reading for every future Cyclone! From the beauty of the Festival of Lights to the excitement of a football game in Jack Trice Stadium, you'll share all the excitement and memories with the next generation.

The perfect reference guide for students in grades 3 and up - or anyone! This handy, easy-to-use reference guide is divided into seven color-coded sections which includes Iowa basic facts, geography, history, people, places, nature and miscellaneous information. Each section is color coded for easy recognition. This Pocket Guide comes with complete and comprehensive facts ALL about Iowa. Riddles, recipes, and surprising facts make this guide a delight! Iowa Basics section explores your state's symbols and their special meaning. Iowa Geography section digs up the what's where in Iowa. Iowa History section is like traveling through time to some of Iowa's greatest moments. Iowa People section introduces you to famous personalities and your next-door neighbors. Iowa Places section shows you where you might enjoy your next family vacation. Iowa Nature section tells what Mother Nature gave to Iowa. Iowa Miscellaneous section describes the real fun stuff ALL about Iowa.

Inspired by 'Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls' and 'Rad Women A to Z,' Iowa State education professor Katy Swalwell worked with over 25 Iowa women artists and RAYGUN to create an illustrated children's book that celebrates the incredible accomplishments through short biographies of a diverse set of women throughout Iowa's history. The book is available at raygunsite.com.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes the first volume of an epic trilogy that takes us on a literary adventure through cycles of birth and death, passion and betrayal that will span a century in America. “Intimate.... Miraculous.... Staggering.... A masterpiece in the making.” —USA Today 1920, Denby, Iowa: Rosanna and Walter Langdon have just welcomed their firstborn son, Frank, into their family farm. He will be the oldest of five. Each chapter in this extraordinary novel covers a single year, encompassing the sweep of history as the Langdons abide by time-honored values and pass them on to their children. With the country on the cusp of enormous social and economic change through the early 1950s, we watch as the personal and the historical merge seamlessly: one moment electricity is just beginning to power the farm, and the next a son is volunteering to fight the Nazis. Later still, a girl we’d seen growing up now has a little girl of her own.

The Big Iowa Activity Book! 100+ activities, from Kindergarten-easy to Fourth/Fifth-challenging! This big activity book has a wide range of reproducible activities including coloring, dot-to-dot, mazes, matching. word search, and many other creative activities that will entice any student to learn more about Iowa. Activities touch on history, geography, people, places, fictional characters, animals, holidays, festivals, legends, lore, and more.

Iowa has been changed more than, perhaps, any other state. We can mourn the disappearance of the bison and mountain lion while we marvel at the recent success of the wild turkey and white-tailed deer. Listening to James Dinsmore tell the story of wildlife in Iowa can open a window onto the future as other areas of our planet are increasingly altered by humans.