I recently spent two weeks in Texas, so the Lone Star State is on my mind. I found the book pictured above for sale at a gift shop in the Fort Worth Stockyards. Like any thrifty homeschool mom, I didn’t buy it, rather, I took a picture of it with my phone, and then searched for it at my local library on my phone. The library had it listed! Score! I put it on hold, and as soon as I got home, I was able to pick it up! I’ve been enjoying it for Morning Basket with my son. We read a double-page spread every day. (More about Morning Basket here.)
This book is a great introduction to the magical, wonderful, wide world of Texas. The book has the following:
-double-page spreads about the bigger cities in TX: Austin, Houston, San Antonio, El Paso, Fort Worth, and Dallas
-double-page spreads about the following themes: natural wonders, flora, fauna, regions, inventions made in TX, a historical timeline, festivals, man-made attractions, sports, history makers, quick stats and facts, and weird things.
By reading these pages, you will learn so many fascinating things about Texas!
For example, did you know the following Texas related facts?
-A cave just outside San Antonio has the world’s largest bat colony.
-TX is home to the least populated county in the United States, Loving County, with fewer than 100 people.
-King Ranch’s in TX is the largest ranch in the US, at over 1200 miles, bigger than Rhode Island!
-that TX is home to so many cool inventions, like Southwest Airlines, the snow cone, the microchip, Compaq, Computers, Dell computers, laser tag, and 3-D printing, for starters!
-a stretch of highway in TX has the highest speed limit, that of 85 mph, between Austin and San Antonio.
-Texas is the birthplace of Bluebell ice cream, Dr. Pepper, Whataburger, the first dance drill team, the herkie jump, the modern pom pom, the Heisman trophy, and Fritos, among many other things.
This book tells you all about those things plus many more fun facts! I highly recommend it with 5 out of 5 stars! So go get it from your library today! (If it doesn’t have it, ask the librarians to purchase it.)
(On my trip I had fun listening to the theme song of Dallas as my son and I zoomed along the interstate seeing the Dallas skyline. It totally takes me back to my childhood. We weren’t allowed to watch the show, and I don’t recommend it, but the song is so epic. Listen below. It reminds me of my childhood life of the 1980s.)
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Tree of Life Mothering 