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K-3Smart about History series.
As in the other titles in this excellent series, this book is ostensibly a child's school assignment, in this case focusing on the first ladies. Each woman speaks for herself in a short profile illustrated with improbably dignified cartoony art and brimming with kid-pleasing tidbits--e.g., who knew that Lucy Webb Hayes hosted the first White House Easter Egg Roll?