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Krull, Kathleen

A Boy Named FDR: How Franklin D. Roosevelt Grew Up to Change America

40 pp. | Knopf | January, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-0-375-85716-4 $17.99

(3) 4-6 Illustrated by Steve Johnson & Lou Fancher. Krull imparts a strong sense of FDR's upright character (bordering on adulatory) and the times in which he lived in this readable narrative. Johnson and Fancher's illustrations stress the man's physical presence, from depicting infant Franklin as the center of his parents' world to portraying the jaunty politician campaigning for state senate. An author's note about Roosevelt's later years is appended. Timeline. Bib.

Reviewer: Betty Carter