By Alice Provensen http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/birthbios/brthpage/08aug/8-14aproven.html
Published Penguin Group New York, 2010
ISBN 978-0670-01252-7
Watercolor, pen ink
Annotation
Large illustrations depicting the life and service of each of the 44 presidents.
Personal Reaction
I learned just enough about each president in this picture book to keep my attention. Each page has the president in numbered order as they served, with a large one page illustration giving hints to what it was they did during their time in office and a small little italic rhyme-ish type of blurb cleverly summarizing their rein, I mean term. Some, such as Abraham Lincoln, take up two pages, you know...he was the Great Emancipator. The information is interesting and easy, number 13, Millard Fillmore, who opened trade to Japan, or Andrew Johnson's failed veto of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, tsk tsk. The way this book is put together is really clever, and makes it easy to become interested in the random, yet important and socially changing facts of each president. Read this same content in a textbook, retain nothing and care even less.
Curricular connections
5th and 8th grade California curriculum, constitution and government
Social Studies
Politics
Presidents
History
Nonfiction
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