So far I've been impressed. The D'Aulaires apparently wrote and illustrated a number of well-received biographies of American figures, most of which are still in print (or have been brought back into print). You can find many of them for sale here, but I'd bet you can also find a number of them in your public library, which is where we found this.
We're definitely enjoying it...the sweet girl is learning a lot, but I am too. And the illustrations are wonderful: colorful, eye-catching, evoking another time and sometimes comically capturing the personality of the tall, gawky boy and adolescent who would grow up be the 16th president of the United States.
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Ooh, thanks! Never seen this one before! "Lincoln: A Photobiography" is really good too, as is the somewhat fanciful ValuTales version of his life story. I really want to go to Springfield for his 200th birthday, though Erie has its own Lincoln connections, and a while back there was a column from one of our newspaper editors suggesting we have a big celebration here. It's going to be a great year for Lincoln fans!
I'll bet it's been fun sharing a birthday with Lincoln. :-) I hope you get to go to Springfield next year, or at least that Erie has a wonderful Lincoln birthday bash.
Several months ago I read a newspaper article about some photos an archivist had discovered that showed Lincoln sitting in the crowd at Gettysburg, sometime before or after the speech. I guess the photos had always been there, but people hadn't realized he was in them until they managed to view them with good digital equipment. Fascinating, because there are so few photos of him in existence!
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