The Twelve Days of Christmas in Colorado The Twelve Days of Christmas in Washington

Gr 2—4—The traditional song retold with some local flair. In Colorado, the fifth day brings "five golden nuggets." In Washington, it's "five golden trout" tossed by the vendors at the Pike Place Market. However, in addition to state-appropriate gifts for each day, the authors have provided a lot of additional bits of information in letters written by a local child and a visiting cousin to family members back home and in back matter including bulletin boards filled with posters of local attractions and celebrities. While these could be the basis for state reports, the Christmas packaging might make them a hard sell for children looking for nothing but the facts. The basic texts can be read or sung to the traditional tune.—Virginia Walter, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies