America

"How do we explain to children the feelings we have for our country? Even more, how do we explain our country? It's hard to do in words. W. Nikola-Lisa has used very few of them. . . yet they express well the variety and vitality in our landscape, our climate, and our population."

"This eclectic book hints at the country's immense range of landscape and, implicitly, of people; illustrations by 14 artists from different ethnic and racial backgrounds establish corresponding diversity of styles."

"Each of Nikola-Lisa's contrasting word combinations. . . are set on juxtaposed pages beneath a picture drawn by one of 14 contributing artists. This format gives children the opportunity to extend the varied images with their own poems, essays, stories, and drawings... Enterprising adults will slip in a cassette of "This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land," and with a copy of America in hand, celebrate the diversity of this great country."