American Girl Facebook

Wide horizontal blog graphic created from a grid-like collage of colorful illustrated historical book covers. Three large vertical cover sections dominate the middle row, showing illustrated girls in period clothing, while portions of additional covers appear across the top and bottom edges. Visible colored title bands include green, burgundy, red, turquoise, lavender, and yellow, with partially readable names including “Felicity,” “Josefina,” “Kit,” and “Julie.” Thin white lines divide the individual book-cover images. A broad semi-transparent pale-white rectangular overlay covers most of the center of the collage, softening the illustrations underneath while leaving the outer portions of the covers more saturated. Centered purple handwritten-style text at the top reads “How.” Large red serif text beneath it reads “American Girl,” with a red outlined star positioned immediately before “American.” Purple handwritten-style lettering below reads “Helped My Kids Love Reading and History” over two lines. A narrow translucent pale band near the lower center contains small purple text reading “LilyandThistle.com.”

Horizontal Lily & Thistle graphic featuring a collage of illustrated historical books and a title about helping children love reading and history. Cross-curricular learning can connect books, history, storytelling, and visual art in meaningful ways for homeschool families. Lily & Thistle provides homeschool online art lessons for kids, online art classes for children, watercolor painting lessons, homeschool drawing projects, history and literature art activities, and flexible homeschool art curriculum resources for creative learning at home.