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Honest Abe

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The perfect picture book biography about Lincoln. With bold, colorful illustrations the illustrator allows the author to cover dicey parts of Lincoln's story (ie., assassination) by portraying the subjects with folk-style looking characters. For example the scene where Lincoln is shot is appropriate for young kids to look at as it is not graphic nor bloody. Somehow, it works and allows for a discussion about how Lincoln died and why he died.Outstanding effort! Plus the book is bigger than average picture books!

This is a good, personable biography of Abraham Lincoln, suitable for even very small children. The text is good for read alouds, and the vocabulary is right for 1st-3rd graders.

And the illustrations! The style and the details are so interesting to look at, we forget to turn the pages. I'm an illustration fanatic, and my kids are visual, too. So many interesting ways to show the action in these stories. Don't miss this excellent and interesting (even for grown-ups) biography of Abraham Lincoln.

The pictures are imaginative.Zeldis does a terrific job of making the paintings come to live. The pictures alone tell a story. The words by Kunhardt make the story enjoyable and easy to understand. The book has real events that occured when lincoln was president. Children learn about history and the events that took place during Lincoln's term in office.