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40 pp.
| Penguin/Paulsen |
January, 2012 |
TradeISBN 978-0-399-24039-3$17.99
(2)
K-3
A girl passes a Lincoln look-alike and wonders about our sixteenth president. Through a natural structure that follows the narrator's thought processes, the narrative lists some basic facts; childlike musings, printed in a more casual font, personalize the account. A gloomy funeral scene is depicted in grays and blacks, a sobering note among the profusion of bright, colorful gouache illustrations. Bib.
Reviewer: Betty Carter
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
January, 2012