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McNamara, Margaret

George Washington's Birthday: A Mostly True Tale

40 pp. | Random/Schwartz & Wade | January, 2012 | Trade ISBN 978-0-375-84499-7 $17.99 | Library ISBN 978-0-375-94458-1 $20.99
(2) K-3 Illustrated by Barry Blitt. McNamara debunks the cherry tree fable plus others, intermingling them with real facts to imagine Washington's seventh birthday. Boxed notes distinguish truth from fancy, as does George's page-long first-person concluding note, which also summarizes his later life. Blitt's energetic, lighthearted pen and watercolor art, in colonial blues and browns, is evocative of the period while augmenting the text's humor.
Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2012

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