Shea, Pegi Deitz. Liberty Rising: The Story of the Statue of Liberty.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)

SHEA, Pegi Deitz. Liberty Rising: The Story of the Statue of Liberty. illus, by Wade Zahares. unpaged, chron, further reading. GIP. Holt. 2005. RTE $17.95. ISBN 0-8050-7220-9. LC 2004024279.

Gr 1-4--Using the concept of building a house or an office building, Shea introduces the size and scale of creating such a large object. Readers meet Edouard de Laboulaye, the law professor who first had the idea of building a monument representing freedom that would be a girl to the people of the United States from the people of France. His early planning with Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi is highlighted. Each step in the process, from small model (four feet high) to full size is …