Looking for Role Models for Todays Kids? Look Back to Yesterdays Unsung Heroes

Historical figures can be role models for kids--especially if they're kids themselves! The Young Patriots Series of books for young readers, a classic 80-year-old series reborn for today's kids, features the childhood adventures of American heroes and heroines. Just released in the Series is "Juliette Low, Girl Scout Founder."

Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, Eleanor Roosevelt--we all recognize the names of these famous people from Americas past who fostered our countrys growth. But what about William Henry Harrison , our ninth president who only served 30 days and was the first president to have a campaign slogan? Or Lew Wallace, who wrote the bestselling novel of the 19th century, Ben-Hur, but, as General Lew Wallace, saved Washington DC from the British in the Battle of Monocacy? Or Juliette Low, who founded the organization that serves more than 80 million girls worldwide--the Girl Scouts.

The "Young Patriots Series" of fictional biographies for young readers, originally published eighty years ago and now recreated by Patria Press, Inc., gives schoolchildren a new opportunity to look back at Americas unsung heroes and heroines AND to learn not just what they achieved as adults, but what they were like as children.

The Series is a chronicle of the best of our past presented to the children who are the best of our future." says creator and publisher of the Young Patriots, Florrie Binford Kichler.

Just released in the Series is "Juliette Low, Girl Scout Founder," the story of the childhood of the woman who founded the organization that has impacted millions of girls.

Growing up in post-Civil War Georgia, Juliette Daisy" Low preferred stirrups to dance shoes and climbing trees to needle and thread. In Juliette Low, Girl Scout Founder, Volume 4 in the latest offering from Patria Presss Young Patriots Series, young readers ages 8-12 will delight in Juliettes childhood adventures beginning with her first day of school and ending with her wedding to Captain Low.

"Juliette Low, Girl Scout Founder," ISBN 1-882859-08-1 (hardback) and 1-882859-09-X (paper) was written by Helen Boyd Higgins, illustrated by Cathy Morrison and published by Patria Press, Inc. Also available in the "Young Patriots Series" is Volume 1, Amelia Earhart, Young Air Pioneer by Jane Moore Howe, Volume 2, the story of our ninth President, William Henry Harrison, Young Tippecanoe by Howard Peckham; and Volume 3, Lew Wallace, Boy Writer, featuring the author of Ben-Hur. Volume 5, James Whitcomb Riley, Young Poet, appears in May, 2002. All books are illustrated chapter books available in hardback at $14.95 and paperback at $9.95 from major booksellers and from the publisher at 1-877-736-7930 toll free.