So, what does this have to do with Picture Book Saturday? Well, there are a lot of new books coming out this year to commemorate the life of Juliette Gordon Low. Here are two recent ones that have come through in my Baker and Taylor order.
Here Come the Girl Scouts! by Shana Corey with illustrations by Hadley Hooper. This is a great nonfiction picture book detailing the life of Juliette Gordon Low. I absolutely love Hadley Hooper's illustrations, they really make the text shine. The book does a great job of weaving the details of Juliette Gordon Low's life into her ideas of the Girl Scouts, with frequent Girl Scout sayings adorning the pages. The end features a information about the legacy of Juliette Gordon Low along with all the sources the author used. This is a small book but it really works well. There is a great melding of text and illustration, leaving you nostalgic for your own time in the Girl Scouts.
For a more in depth look at Juliette Gordon Low, be sure to read First Girl Scout: The Life of Juliette Gordon Low by Ginger Wadsworth. This is a great biography about the founder of the Girl Scouts and I can see it being used in many reports in the future. I loved the opening of each chapter as it showcases a different Girl Scout badge. This is not a picture book (despite it being Picture Book Saturday) but I was really impressed with the quality of this biography showcasing Gordon Low's life. She was a phenomenal woman and the legacy she has left behind is about more than cookies. This is really a book about Juliette Gordon Low however and much of the book focuses on her life before she founded the Girl Scouts. I found it very interesting myself but if you have readers who are more interested in the Girl Scout angle, it takes a bit of reading to get there.
Both of these books are quality reading with different ways of examining the legacy that Juliette Gordon Low left behind.
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