Highlights for Children

All about Us History Collection Highlights for Children

Listen and relive the exciting tales from Highlights, now on audio! Learn about life on a small farm during the Great Depression and about the battle that inspired Francis Scott Key to write "The Star-Spangled Banner," along with other stories about US history.

Stories include: 1800 and Froze to Death by Lois Fuller Lewis, A Brick to Cuddle Up To by Barbara Cole, Abraham Lincoln Has His Neck Shortened by Harold Holzer, Braving the Darkness by Joann Walker, Changing the Face of History by Sonya Nichols Burton, Flag Day by Cecily Johnson, How Cars Have Changed! by Judy Reis, Justice for All by Lynn Rymarz, Merci, America! by Heather Bode, One Thanksgiving or Two? by Shannon Baker Moore, and more.