Preserving America's story, one child at a time.
The Littlest Statesmen is an American family company dedicated to helping educate, enrich, and foster our youngest generation to know and love their country.
Even the youngest Americans can learn their nation's story.
TLS offers educational books, apparel, home goods, and more to spark a deep love for our nation in our littlest patriots. We believe that through education, children will come to understand the true beauty of this country.
We believe it is our duty as parents to teach our children about our nation's history and enduring truths. Children rise to the occasion and have every ability to learn these stories, if they are offered the opportunity. We are humbled to offer such resources to your family.
“America remains a city on a hill, a beacon of freedom and liberty to all who come.”
We understand that America is not without its faults. No nation on this earth will ever be perfect in this broken world; it is governed by man. But we love our country. We are indebted to those who came before us, and we are bound with the responsibility of sharing our rich history with our children, beginning at a young age.
It all began with a three-year-old's question:
“Mama, why do we celebrate the Fourth of July?”
When Katie's daughter asked about the Fourth of July, Katie quickly realized there are very few books, let alone educational materials, written to teach our youngest generation about our country. It's as if we don't think they can understand such great ideas and eternal concepts of faith, sacrifice, bravery, and liberty. If we are not teaching our children about our country, why should they grow up loving it?
Watching her daughter play with her princesses, it dawned on Katie: if our children know the stories of Cinderella and Snow White, surely they can know the stories of George Washington and Betsy Ross. We simply need to teach them. And with that, The Littlest Statesmen was born.
Raising enlightened, educated, and proud Americans
True stories
The real lives of the men and women who risked their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to build this nation.
Made for little ones
Rhyming text and gentle storytelling written for children ages 3-7, read aloud together at home.
Heirloom quality
Hand-painted gouache illustrations and keepsakes made to be treasured and passed down.
The hands behind the books
Katie Broussard
Katie Broussard is a wife, mother, author, and founder of The Littlest Statesmen. A Sacramento, California native, Katie graduated with honors from Hillsdale College in 2018 with a double major in Spanish and Politics. Now a devoted wife and mother to three young children, she endeavors to cultivate a profound love and respect for her nation in her home.
Katie is the author of The Founder's Collection, beginning with The Great George Washington and The Admirable Abraham Lincoln. These books introduce our youngest generation to the men and women who built this great nation.
It is Katie's great prayer that these stories open our children's eyes to the beauty of this nation and the profound ideals on which it was founded. Together, we can raise the next generation of proud Americans.
Grace Vitale
Grace Vitale is the illustrator of The Founder's Collection. As an artist, Grace has learned to observe the world around her and extract truth from it, training herself not just to look, but to see. Through classical training, she has found joy in the practice of good craftsmanship and has begun a lifetime of creating beautiful things.
Grace works primarily in gouache illustration and oil painting. Whatever the medium, she aims to capture the beauty of the subject before her.
As a wife and mother, she feels an acute need to curate beauty within the home and to teach her children to seek out and wonder at God's marvelous creation.
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