Land of the Free Series

Each book is one of a series of books about people who emigrated to America to make this "The Land of the Free".

Each book in this series is an exciting story about a distinct national group that came from another country to find freedom in the new land. Today, America is what those people of many nationalities have made it and are still making it. Each group has brought its own important contribution to the building of a new and vigorous nation.

The stories in The Land of the Free series are all by foremost contemporary authors of literature for young people, with illustrations by nationally known artists. Although these distinguished books are published individually, they are designed in uniform format so that together they will offer a beautiful and universal set for every bookshelf.

The editor of The Land of the Free series is Erick Berry, whose many fine books in the juvenile field are already well known. As a writer, illustrator and traveler, she has acquired an unexcelled background worthy of this important project. For the series she has written and illustrated a book of her own—Seven Beaver Skins—which is a thrilling story of the Dutch who settled in New Amsterdam.

The first series of its kinds, each one is a superb story and a beautiful book.

From The Blowing-Wand: A Story of Bohemian Glassmaking in Ohio

There are a total of 21 books in this series; two others, mentioned in Song of the Pines as being "in preparation," appear to have never been published; these titles are: 

• They Planted Far Fields: A Story of Representative Government in Virginia by Dorothea Stillman, and 
• The Deep-Toned Bell: A Story of the Czechoslovakians by Fjeril Hess