Our Country's Holidays is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.1.8 and Literacy.L.1.5. The important holidays and historical figures related to them are explained in this book through color photographs accompanied by narrative nonfiction text. A list of holidays by month is also included. This book should be paired with "e;My Fourth of July"e; (9781448890460) from the InfoMax Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.