My Great-Aunt Arizona Book

"My Great-Aunt Arizona" is a biography about the inspirational life of Arizona which is written by Gloria Houston along with illustrations by Susan Condie Lamb and it is about the inspirational life of Gloria Houston's great aunt Arizona's career as a teacher. "My Great-Aunt Arizona" is truly one of the most inspirational books about teaching that both children and adults will for many years!

Basically, this is about the life of Arizona and about how she was interested in learning new things as a child as she loved to read. Also, it details her family life with her parents and her younger brother Jim as she and Jim both go to school together and learn so many things from school. Unfortunately, when Arizona's mother died, she had to drop out of school to take care of Jim and her father until her father remarried again and she was able to attend school again and become a teacher.

This book truly amazed me as I was astonished to learn that this book was about Gloria Houston's real life aunt Arizona and her inspiring dreams to one day become a teacher and show her students all the different places that they will go when they grow up. Gloria Houston has truly made this book extremely inspirational and touching as the mood of the book is full of hope and a yearn to learn more about the world. I love the way that Gloria Houston always identified her great aunt Arizona as a woman who always wore long full dresses with a pretty white apron, high button shoes and many petticoats, making Arizona truly stand out as a breakthrough character in this book. Another highlight of this book was Susan Condie Lamb's gorgeous illustrations as the background colors are truly beautiful and realistic, especially when Susan Condie Lamb draws the green meadows and forests with such beauty that I usually found myself just gawking at the beautiful landscape of Arizona's hometown. I also loved the appearance of Arizona herself as she wears old-fashioned clothing such as a long white apron, but she always looked so wise and her face was always full of excitement and tenderness as she always told her students that they can go to the far away places she mentions.

"My Great-Aunt Arizona" is truly one of the most inspirational books for children and adults who would love to be a teacher someday and teach their students everything they need to know about life. I would recommend this book to children ages four and up since there is nothing inappropriate in this book.

I like to thank all my Goodreads friends and the Children's Book Picture Book Club for recommending me this book, since it truly was inspirational and I would gladly recommend this book to anyone else who loves to learn the joys of teaching children!