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Rosemary Wells
Dear Reader: Why another book about Lincoln? Because it shows something new. Lincoln was a human being much deeper than the traditional myth based histories that kids normally get about this great man. There are no well-worn anecdotes in this book. Almost everything in it is history that children will read nowhere else. Few readers know Tad Lincoln had a cleft palate and was severely dyslexic. Few readers know that Lincoln's greatest joy was theatre and railroads, or that he read out loud every time he read anything. His sons Tad and Willie were the heart of this great man. Their stories on the way to and in the White House are the heart of LINCOLN AND HIS BOYS. Lincoln was an extraordinary father, kind and gentle despite his own childhood where poverty and neglect ruled the day. The history is researched impeccably. Every incident in the book has passed muster of the curators of the Lincoln Library in Springfield, Illinois. The conversation is what makes it different. In its pages you can hear the Lincolns talking, very much as we do in our time. Keep talking and reading, Rosemary Wells www.rosemarywells.com PS Enter to win a signed copy via the contact link on my website.
Lincoln and His Boys / Rosemary Wells (author); P.J. Lynch (illustrator) / Candlewick Press
Price: $16.99 / ISBN: 978-0763637231 / Published: 2008 Ages 8 - 12 / Hardcover / Middle grade fiction |