Maggart started her own publishing company, Freedom Train For Kids, and published two historical fiction books in April 2021: “All Aboard America’s Freedom Train” for children in pre-k through second grade and “America’s Patriotic Freedom Train” for children in third through fifth grade.The books were co-authored with Kathie Eidson and illustrated by Jon MacGregor.
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Welcome aboard the Freedom Train!
Freedom Train For Kids LLC is a Veteran-owned Independent Publishing Company. We believe kids naturally want to love their country. Our patriotic products exist to nurture this desire in a way that sparks creativity and engagement while building a foundational understanding of patriotism in our youth to enrich their value, dreams, and resilience, which will lead to flourishing communities. From our perspective, these exceptional books, original music, dynamic curriculum and product line have the capacity to begin a patriotic movement in the hearts and minds of our students during the foundational and formative years of elementary education in the wide variety of educational classrooms throughout our country!
Imagine an innovative educational movement beginning to sow the seeds of the core values of patriotism inside our nation’s classrooms during the celebration year of our 250th birthday and then remaining deeply rooted for decades to come! This movement is vital and essential for the health and well-being of our children, communities and the future of the United States of America.
Freedom Train For Kids has published two innovative and captivating patriotic children’s books for the elementary audience: All Aboard America’s Freedom Train, (PreK - 2nd grade) and America’s Patriotic Freedom Train, (3rd - 5th grade) that take kids on an inspiring journey to understand patriotism, build strong character, and the desire to positively impact their peers and community with action-based caring ideas! Our vision is to connect kids across America with a heart full of love for our country and motivate them to construct caring ideas that can change the world!
These one-of-a-kind books written in historical fiction are based on the widely unknown patriotic event of the 1947 Freedom Train that traveled to all 48 states carrying our founding documents and many others on its journey. Millions of families and their children stepped aboard to view these sacred treasures, and it inspired a spirit of patriotism in our country at that time.
Our products offer vast educational opportunities to reinforce our sacred patriotic values, which will result in our upcoming generations of elementary students’ hearts and minds being rooted again in patriotism. This will set our country in motion to reap a republic that embodies hope and a renewed strength and ambition to chase after their wildest dreams and with that success, give back by constructing caring ideas that can change the world!
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Kathy Maggart
Contact Kathy Maggart
Email: kathymaggart@freedomtrainforkids.com Telephone: (334) 614-2089
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Through the passion of her creative, artistic, musical, and magical teaching style and innovative
gifts, Kathy Maggart’s vision is to inspire children to have a heart full of love for their country... and motivate them to construct caring ideas that can change the world! She is on mission and
aspires to connect kids across America with these core patriotic values. Kathy’s patriotism
flourishes from her upbringing in a Navy family, serving as an Army wife and their son serving
as a soldier. This has all reinforced her love for our country, and enthusiasm to reach kids and
teach these sacred patriotic values.
Kathy dreamed for years to write a children’s book and is now co-author and publisher of both
All Aboard America’s Freedom Train, (PreK - 2nd grade) and America’s Patriotic Freedom Train, (3rd - 5th grade). Her continued quest for kids to capture the excitement of love for country,
compelled her to write these patriotic children’s books that encompassed the inspirational and
true historical event of the 1947 Freedom Train.
Written in historical fiction and enriched with beautiful art by illustrator, Jon MacGregor, the
captivating characters and storylines bring to life this widely unknown patriotic event. This red-
white-and blue train carried the Nation’s most important documents of freedom and stopped
through every state in our nation at that time, igniting a spirit of patriotism. Millions of families
and their children lined up for miles and miles to see this stunning train, walk aboard, and get a
glimpse of the documents that made this country great.
Kathy’s time in education prepared her for this epic venture as her unique teaching abilities are
filled with years full of fun educational initiatives. Together with amazing educators, she led her
elementary school of nearly 700 students to obtain their own free library card and ended this
success with a school-wide celebration of enjoyable activities that included a tethered Hot Air
Balloon which emphasized their slogan, “Our reading is going to take us AROUND the world,
OUT of the world and UNDER the oceans of the world!” Kathy’s adventurous reading center
was a 17-foot-long aluminum canoe filled with blue water fabric cushions and fish pillows! It is
impossible not to mention the large student made papier-mâché planets suspended with fishing
line from her classroom ceiling surrounded by orbit routes being highlighted with different
colored electrical wires and new information being added annually by her students!
As a teacher who loved integrating learning about different cultures into the classroom, her 1 st
graders created a 17-foot-long Chinese New Year dragon that traveled through the school during
the event and involved students experiencing additional awesome cultural learning activities,
community connections, that were all shared within her Kindergarten through 5 th grade
elementary school and through the support of the outstanding faculty! Her vision for an “Ocean
Museum” birthed one day while reading a story about Blue Whales to her students. Kathy then
led a team of teachers to fill the museum with sensational hands-on activities and experiences to
learn about ocean life. This included the creativity of walking into the museum through a life
size model of a Blue Whale baleen mouth and the opportunity to stand beside a life size replica
of a Blue Whale heart stationed next to a human heart!
Kathy’s genuine smile and outgoing personality are a warm welcome for anyone to talk with her
about Freedom Train For Kids’ exceptional books, and her passion for instilling patriotic values
into our upcoming generations of students during the foundational and formative years of
elementary school. As CEO of Freedom Train For Kids, she recalls, “I never thought that being
‘Businesswoman of the Month’ with a two day a week paper route when I was 14 would lead to
starting a company and becoming the CEO!” As a sheer entrepreneur and visionary, Kathy loves
the challenge of beginning and building an idea with a blank piece of paper or computer screen
that involves working together with many talented professionals who become dear friends in the
process!
Kathy Maggart has a master’s degree in Elementary Education K-6 from Troy State University.
As an educator she primarily taught 1st grade students for many years. Kathy has won multiple
teaching awards including her district’s “Rookie Teacher of the Year” in 2003 and also won the
prestigious “Golden Apple Teacher” award in 2008.
Kathy Maggart is the owner and CEO of Freedom Train For Kids, LLC. She is the active director
of their non-profit, Freedom Train For Kids Foundation, a 501(3)(c).
You can contact Kathy for school author visits, radio, TV, and
all media events at: KathyMaggart@FreedomTrainForKids.com
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Through the passion of her creative, artistic, musical, and magical teaching style and innovative
gifts, Kathy Maggart’s vision is to inspire children to have a heart full of love for their country... and motivate them to construct caring ideas that can change the world! She is on mission and
aspires to connect kids across America with these core patriotic values. Kathy’s patriotism
flourishes from her upbringing in a Navy family, serving as an Army wife and their son serving
as a soldier. This has all reinforced her love for our country, and enthusiasm to reach kids and
teach these sacred patriotic values.
Kathy dreamed for years to write a children’s book and is now co-author and publisher of both
All Aboard America’s Freedom Train, (PreK - 2nd grade) and America’s Patriotic Freedom Train, (3rd - 5th grade). Her continued quest for kids to capture the excitement of love for country,
compelled her to write these patriotic children’s books that encompassed the inspirational and
true historical event of the 1947 Freedom Train. Written in historical fiction and enriched with
beautiful art by illustrator, Jon MacGregor, the captivating characters and storylines bring to life
this widely unknown patriotic event. This red-white-and blue train carried the Nation’s most
important documents of freedom and stopped through every state in our nation, igniting a spirit
of patriotism. Millions of families and their children lined up for miles and miles to see this
stunning train, walk aboard, and get a glimpse of the documents that made this country great.
Kathy Maggart has a master’s degree in Elementary Education K-6 from Troy State University.
As an educator she primarily taught 1st grade students for many years. Kathy has won multiple
teaching awards including her district’s “Rookie Teacher of the Year” in 2003 and also won the
prestigious “Golden Apple Teacher” award in 2008.
Kathy Maggart is the owner and CEO of Freedom Train For Kids, LLC. She is the active director
of their non-profit, Freedom Train For Kids Foundation, a 501(3)(c).
You can contact Kathy for school author visits, radio, TV, and
all media events at: KathyMaggart@FreedomTrainForKids.com
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Follow the Journey!
Our company, Freedom Train For Kids LLC, is a Veteran-owned, self-publishing book company in Phenix City, Alabama. Over the years, step-by-step our company’s entrepreneurial spirit and love for our country has led this dream to create patriotic and educational children’s books! With the future book series, music, dynamic curriculum and product line all on the horizon our hearts are now able to envision the tremendous opportunity we have to begin a patriotic movement across America in the hearts and minds of students during the foundational and formative years of education!
Our journey began when Kathy’s husband and Army veteran, Tim Maggart, discovered the history of the 1947 Freedom Train. As a songwriter he was inspired to write, “Freedom Train” and encouraged his wife to follow her dream of writing the children’s book! Our patriotic team of consultants, distribution, and writers are highly experienced in each of their professional roles. Through the day-by-day learning of the ins and outs of writing, distributing, and publishing, we kept progressing with hard work and a whole lot of faith.
It is important to understand that these one-of-a-kind books intentionally and carefully integrate an age-appropriate understanding of the tremendous sacrifice of our military families in securing our freedoms. This helps students begin to realize, recognize and respect and honor our military and their families, past, present and future, for their ongoing service and sacrifice that ultimately provides their understanding of the blessing of freedom and the opportunity to chase their dreams.
Freedom Train For Kids is immensely honored to have many endorsements that contribute to the credibility of content for education. For example, America’s First Female 4-Star Army General, Ann Dunwoody said, “I hope every child in America embraces these books and that they forever ignite a heart full of love for our country.”
Joined by talented Nashville hit songwriters and producer, we have written and produced three amazing patriotic children’s songs intended to start a new and fresh wave of excitement to reinforce the patriotic values and concepts learned in our powerful books. We are eager to release our music and watch how the enthusiasm will unfold in the hearts and minds of kids across our country! To bring awareness and spread our patriotic message, Freedom Train For Kids has developed six initial products to also reinforce the patriotic values and concepts in our books, all with original art, for both children and adults.
A dynamic curriculum to accompany our books is being developed for educational use for PreK - 5th grades. We look forward to sharing these extraordinary plans and ideas that include the integration of the arts, hands-on activities, projects and so much more! Our curriculum will awaken patriotism inside elementary classrooms and breathe new life into the hearts and minds of upcoming generations of students!
Freedom Train For Kids goal is to keep the Pledge of Allegiance alive in the hearts of students and education. In both books, the characters stand together and place their hands over their hearts and recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
Our publishing company plans to write a future series off each first title that continues to provide materials for educators. Students will continue to grow in their knowledge and understanding of the history of our nation when the series launches into historical time travel adventures back to the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights. Conceptually, children will see the threads of patriotism from the very beginning of our country and be inspired to take action implementing their own caring ideas to change the world!
We have great vision for the future of our company with many more creative ideas for original patriotic songs, book trailers, products and a dynamic curriculum to accompany each new book in the series. Freedom Train For Kids believes we have tremendous possibilities throughout America in all the different educational school opportunities to build a strong patriotic foundation using our substantial educational resources. We believe there are many educators and parents who are looking for creative and exceptional patriotic materials as the solution that will help them raise their students as the upcoming generation of patriots.
Our movement focus is to build extraordinary energy while watching our Freedom Train books and music start their journey of impact around America during the foundational and formative years of elementary education! Kids are simply fascinated with trains which gives us exceptional opportunity to pique interest and capture the hearts of children and their families along with educators, especially when they learn the 1947 Freedom Train came through their state or city! This offers us the chance for an abundance of fun ideas to begin and sustain an ongoing memorable movement.
Our vision is leading a new generation of young patriots who will be taking footsteps into the future and leaving patriotic footprints for younger generations to follow in… all waving the American flag of patriotism.
Troy University alumna promoting literacy, patriotism with children’s book series
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