Your Top Alamo Children's Books

[cje]

I can remember going to the Children's library and checking out (several times) various books on the Alamo. They often had a few illustrations that I tried to copy and draw to include in my Alamo Artwork (You Artist have nothing to fear) I kinda overdid it with explosions and cannon balls flying through the air. In a case or two I was able to scrape up enough money to buy a couple of Alamo Books. It was later when I grew up a bit more that I was able to buy and put into my Alamo book collection. So my question to you readers is, "What Children's Alamo books do you recall?" I did not include any Titles or names of Authors here but will share a review of my Children's Alamo Library at a later date.

[loucapitano]

I have a few Children books on the Alamo. I include books on Crockett and Sam Houston, which generally include Alamo references. I cherish them all:
Remember the Alamo - 1958 Robert Penn Warren
Sam Houston, the Tallest Texan - 1853 William Johnson
We Were There At the Battle of the Alamo - 1958 - Margaret Cousins
Davy Crockett - In His Own Words - 2001 George Sullivan
I have a few more in my attic that I'm waiting for my grandchildren to get little older.

[mjbrathwaite]

My shelf of books on the Alamo still contains a "Big Golden Book" entitled "Walt Disney's Davy Crockett King of the Wild Frontier" (1955) adapted from the film/TV series by Al Schmidt.

[Bill Yowell]

While I was well beyond my youth when I read it, I think John Knaggs' "The Bugles Are Silent" does a good job of relating the "Alamo Story" through the eyes of a fictitious young Mexican boy living in San Antonio during the time of the siege. It would be a fairly easy read for youngsters 10 years or so old. While Walt Disney offered my first introduction to the Alamo, Lon Tinkle stirred my interest on the subject and I continue to read everything I can get my hands on dealing with the Texas Revolution.

[loucapitano]

Hi Bill,
I'm sure you know this, but just in case and for other readers, the John Jakes Kent Family Chronicles, Vol. 4, 1976 titled "The Furies" begins at the Alamo and continues through San Jacinto. One of my favorite authors, James Michener does a nice job in his masterwork historical novel, "Texas" that also mentions other missions in South Texas. I found a little treasure in a used book sale titled "Come to the Bower" by J.Y. Bryan, 1963 that's a nice romantic adventure set during the Texas revolution. The author spent a lot of time researching in Texas and bases his novelization on the limited historical knowledge then available. Hence, lot's of legend creeps into a very entertaining story.
Lou from Long Island

[Rich Curilla]

My first Alamo books were all the Disney Davy books my mom and dad would buy me. This was when I was 8. When I was 10, we went to the Alamo for the first time and I got Frederick Ray's still-wonderful illustrated book about the Alamo. Then, when I was 12, Lon Tinkle hit my imagination and brought me up to speed. Then, of course, Walter Lord at 14, which... brought me up to speed. And I've been speeding ever since. LOL.

My childhood trips to the town library in Shamokin, PA, were usually to sign out (for the umpteenth time) Robert Penn Warren or Margaret Cousins.

[Rich Curilla]

Nov 5, 2013 19:30:58 GMT -5 Rich Curilla said:

My first Alamo books were all the Disney Davy books my mom and dad would buy me. This was when I was 8. When I was 10, we went to the Alamo for the first time and I got Frederick Ray's still-wonderful illustrated book about the Alamo. Then, when I was 12, Lon Tinkle hit my imagination and brought me up to speed. Then, of course, Walter Lord at 14, which... brought me up to speed. And I've been speeding ever since. LOL.

My childhood trips to the town library in Shamokin, PA, were usually to sign out (for the umpteenth time) Robert Penn Warren or Margaret Cousins.

Ha! Looking back over this, it sounds like a Curillian version of Frank Sinatra's "When I Was Seventeen."