Dear Diana: Travel with Me to Southwestern Germany

By Margaret Collier and Mary T. Cook

Dear Diana:Travel With Me to Southwestern Germany takes the reader to an area south and east of Frankfurt, Germany. We visit areas where the Romans and other Early European groups of people trod, including the ancient town of Trier, known for its Roman artifacts and we go farther east to Weimar, site of the infamous concentration camp from World World II known as Buchenwald. Germany is a country filled with with old history, fairytale castle ruins and beautiful countryside as well as important modern history. It is a modern European country and a stronghold of financial stability today.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 7, 2016
• ISBN: 9781514490792

Margaret Collier

Margaret C. Collier is a retired educator living in Orlando, Florida, with her husband and her springer spaniel, Carly. Her youngest son is with the army, now in Germany, and her oldest son is with the air force, living in Colorado Springs with his wife, Lindsey. Her daughter and son-in-law, Robert, are living in Pennsylvania. She holds a BA degree in art education from the Maryland Institute of Art, an MA in elementary education and special education from Marshall University and the College of Graduate Studies in Charleston, West Virginia, and an educational specialist degree in Educational Administration from the University of Florida. Travel has become her passion, and she has found the need to share this with geography students who may enjoy a more personal tribute to travel. This is the fifth book in a series of high interest, low-vocabulary-level reading books for geography that will focus on the countries, cities, and geographical regions she has seen and will see in the future. Mary T. Cook is an educator and freelance illustrator. She holds a BS degree from the University of Nebraska, Omaha, and a master’s degree from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Her first children’s book, based on a real-life experience by a family member, is titled The Moose at the Bus Stop. It was published March of 2013 by Guardian Angel Publishing, St. Louis, Missouri. Her newest book, Emma McKenna’s Ice Cream Dilemma, is due out in the spring of 2014. She lives in Oveido, Florida, with her husband, two boxers and a Scottish terrier. Her daughter and her family live in Chicago, Illinois, son and daughter-in-law in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the oldest son in Oveido area. Mrs. Collier and Mrs. Cook, former teachers of the year, have collaborated as educators for over twenty-five years, presenting national-level workshops in the infusing of the arts into social studies. Both educators are now publishing a series of high-interest social studies themed books, which address the needs of low-level readers. They have both worked for schools in Seminole County, Florida, where classes are academically and culturally diverse.

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ISBN:   Softcover      978-1-5144-9080-8

   Hardcover   978-1-5144-9081-5

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Rev. date: 05/27/2016

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This book is dedicated to friends and family who have encouraged me to travel. Special thanks to my son Andy and his wife Kellie who took time to be our guide through this part of Germany.

Special thanks to my friend and colleague, Mary T. Cook.

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This collage of favorite places in South Western Germany takes us from local train stations to Roman ruins to village stores to Buchenwald and to a US Army base now closed and forgotten about except by those who