Join a literary journey to explore the Golden State’s history, geography, flora, and fauna through selected works of story and nonfiction. This reader is designed to accompany the California Out of the Box state history curriculum for grades 3-6. The California Collage reader is a gold mine of supplementary material —stories, poetry, natural history, people, places and notable events, first person accounts such as the writings of naturalist John Muir, as well as material from the National Park Service, newspaper accounts, letters, memoirs, images, maps, photos and more. The three books together— California Out of the Box [Interdisciplinary History Curriculum] Teacher and Student editions, and California Collage —make up a complete curriculum for studying California history from pre-history to the 1930s and is aligned with California State Standards for 4th grade. ~ Caroline Arnold, author of Trapped in Tar: Fossils from the Ice Age "California Collage is a collection of stories, non-fiction articles, first-person articles, and poems that were curated for [the California Out of the Box ] course. The two sourcebooks [teacher and student books] and California Collage are available only in print. The sourcebooks are printed in black and white, while California Collage includes full-color images." ~Cathy Duffy, Read more at Cathy Duffy Reviews