We’re asking Utah libraries to serve as engagement hubs for this historic conversation about our state.
At the Heart of Communities
We have developed a toolkit of materials for librarians to create a display and share information with patrons about this process, as part of our outreach to Utahns of all ages, backgrounds, and geographies.
Suggested Readings
Juvenile Titles
Starred Reviews⭐
- Blue Sky White Stars (and Spanish version Un Cielo Azul Blancas Estrellas), by Sarvinder Naberhaus & Kadir Nelson
Penguin, 2017
Kirkus & School Library Journal Starred Review⭐ - A Primer About the Flag, by Marvin Bell
Candlewick, 2011
Kirkus Starred Review⭐ - Star Spangled: The Story of a Flag, a Battle, and the American Anthem, by Tim Grove
Abrams, 2020
Kirkus Starred Review⭐
Positively Reviewed by Kirkus or School Library Journal👍
- American Symbols: What You Need to Know, by Melissa Ferguson
Capstone, 2017
School Library Journal👍 - The Flag Maker, by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Houghton Mifflin, 2004
Kirkus👍 - Flags Over America: A Star-Spangled Story, by Cheryl Harness
Albert Whitman & Company, 2014
School Library Journal👍 - Hold the Flag High, by Catherine Clinton
HarperCollins, 2010
School Library Journal & Kirkus👍 - Long May She Wave: The True Story of Caroline Pickersgill and Her Star-Spangled Creation, by Kristen Fulton
Simon & Schuster, 2017
School Library Journal👍 - Our Flag Was Still There: The True Story of Mary Pickersgill and the Star-Spangled Banner, by Jessie Hartland
Paula Wiseman/Simon & Schuster, 2019
Kirkus👍 - Stars and Stripes: The Story of the American Flag, by Sarah L. Thompson
Collins, 2003
School Library Journal👍 - Why Are There Stripes on the American Flag?, by Martha E. H. Rustad
Cloverleaf Books, Lerner, 2014
School Library Journal👍 - You’re a Grand Old Flag, by George M. Cohan
Walker Children’s, 2007
Kirkus👍
Unreviewed Titles
- F is for Flag (Reading Railroad Books), by Wendy Cheyette Lewison
Grosset & Dunlap, 2004 - Our Flag (Little Golden Book), by Carl Memling
Golden Books, 2011 - Our Pledge, Our Promise – The Pledge of Allegiance Explained, by Sheri Wall
A Matter of Rhyme, 2020
Adult and Young Adult Titles
Positively Reviewed by Kirkus or Library Journal👍
- The American Flag: An Encyclopedia of the Stars and Stripes in U.S. History, Culture, and Law, by John R. Vile
ABC-CLIO, 2018
Library Journal👍 but $$$$$ - Betsy Ross and the Making of America, by Marla L. Miller
Macmillan, 2010
Kirkus👍 - Capture the Flag: A Political History of American Patriotism, by Woden Teachout
Basic, 2009 - Out of print at Amazon
Kirkus👍 - Flag: An American Biography, by Marc Leepson
Macmillan, 2010
Kirkus👍 - The Flag, the Poet and the Song, by Irvin Molotsky
Dutton, 2001
Kirkus👍 - A Flag Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of National Symbols, by Tim Marshall
Simon & Schuster, 2017
Kirkus👍 - What So Proudly We Hailed: Francis Scott Key, A Life, by Marc Leepson
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Kirkus👍
Unreviewed Titles
- The American Flag: A Handbook of History & Etiquette, by Applewood Books
Applewood Books, 2013 - For Which It Stands: An Anecdotal Biography of the American Flag, by Michael Corcoran
Simon & Schuster, 2007 - A Grand Old Flag: A History of the United States Through its Flags, by Kevin Keim
DK Adult, 2007 - Inventing the American Flag: How the Stars and Stripes Was Woven from Symbols, by Henry W. Moeller
Roaring Forties Press, 2019