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Posted: Feb 10 2009 at 3:22pm | IP Logged Quote Matilda
Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers

By Burke Davis
Illustrated by Douglas Gorsline

keywords: Abraham Lincoln, president, history, letters, whiskers, trains

This is the story of Lincoln's encounter with a little girl named Grace Bedell first through a letter that she wrote him advising him that he should grow a beard and then again when she met him in person. There are quite a few interesting and humorous tidbits about the Lincolns. We very much enjoyed it. The illustrations are done in a sepia tone giving this book a vintage feel and the full texts of the original letters are included in the back of the book. We found this at our library just in time for Lincoln's birthday!

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Posted: Feb 11 2009 at 1:01am | IP Logged Quote MaryM
We really enjoyed this book as well - it's a very interesting historical story.

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Posted: March 09 2009 at 12:57pm | IP Logged Quote SuzanneG
We loved this book!

There is also a "reader" (for ages 7-9) called Grace's Letter to Lincoln that is good too.

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Abraham Lincoln Comes Home

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