📖 Declaration of Independence: The Words that Made America by Sam Fink. If you’re looking for a children’s book that contains the full text of the Declaration, then this is the one to get. Fink’s excellent version is designed to maximize readability and comprehension; each page contains a single phrase from the Declaration, accompanied by an explanatory illustration. – Elementary

📖 Those Rebels, John and Tom by Barbara Kerley. Meet the two very different men, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, who worked together to get the Declaration of Independence written and adopted by the Continental Congress (Ben Franklin is completely left out of the story). The book focuses on the early Revolutionary period.​ Pair with Suzanne Jurmain's Worst of Friends for a fuller picture of the long, often contentious friendship these two men shared. – Preschool • Elementary

📖 The Fourth of July Story by Alice Dalgliesh. The Fourth of July Story was first published in 1956 and the charming illustrations, in particular, are very much of that era. The book’s still in print and well worth including in a study of The Declaration of Independence for young children, so long as you don’t mind the dated tone. – Preschool • Elementary

📖 The Journey of the One and Only Declaration of Independence by Judith St. George. As the name suggests, this lively book chronicles the exciting adventures of the original document from its first signing to its current resting place at the National Archives. – Elementary

📖 The Signers: The 56 Stories Behind the Declaration of Independence by Dennis Brindell Fradin. Read short profiles of each of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence in this fine supplement to a middle grade study of the Revolutionary Era. The entries are organized by colony. – Middle

🔗 Content Connection: Founders. Read biographies of Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, and others.