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Fleming, Candace

A Big Cheese for the White House: The True Tale of a Tremendous Cheddar

32 pp. | DK Ink/Kroupa | September, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-7894-2573-4 $$16.95

(2) K-3 Illustrated by S. D. Schindler. When the folks in Cheshire, Massachusetts, home of Cheshire cheese, "the best you can serve at your table," learned that a Connecticut town was the favored cheddar supplier to President Thomas Jefferson, they decided to make him a 1,235-pound cheddar as a gift. This actual historical event--proof that sometimes truth is stranger than fiction--is documented in a reportorial, tongue-in-cheek style, extended in droll, elegantly limned illustrations.

Reviewer: Mary M. Burns | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 1999