The Ultimate List of Children’s Books about Idaho
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Children’s Books About Idaho
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Children’s Books about Idaho: Picture Books
Firestorm, by Jean Craighead George
The author of My Side of the Mountain wrote a book about making it through Idaho’s Snake River on a rafting trip. This survival tale will interest action adventurers.
P is for Potatoes: An Idaho Alphabet, by Stan Steiner and Joy Steiner, illustrated by Jocelyn Stack
Baseball Saved Us, by Ken Mochizuki, illustrated by Dom Lee
The Minidoka Story, by Sat Ichikawa.
Out-of-print but readily available free digitally at Archive.org or in print for purchase at the Japanese American National Museum, for $5. It is a book about Idaho and the Minidoka camp.
Children’s Books about Idaho: Chapter Books
West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi, New York to Idaho Territory, 1883 (Dear America) by Jim Murphy
This first-generation Italian American takes the train from New York to Idaho when it was still Idaho Territory. Find about the journey people made westward in the earliest days of transcontinental trains. Perfect book about Idaho for 4th – 7th graders (ages 8 to 12.)
Idaho Vocabulary to Highlight:
Nez Perce, Coeur d’Alene, Kootenai, Shoshone, Bannock, and Blackfeet peoples
Lewis & Clark Expedition
Oregon Trail
Washington Territory (originally)
Idaho Gold Rush of 1860
Idaho Territory 1863
Nez Perce retreat attempt in 1877
Idaho statehood in 1893
Minidoka Internment Camp
EBR1 atomic power
potato production
potato dehydration process
Idaho Geography:
Snake River
Boise
Rocky Mountains
Borah’s Peak
Hell’s Canyon
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