Abe Lincoln at Last
Written
by Mary Pope Osborne
Illustrated
by Sal Murdocca
Random
House, 2011
120
pages
Historical
Fiction
My son LOVES The
Magic Tree House books. He has read
all of them; so with me being a history nerd, I thought “why not?” So, I sat down and read this book. I really enjoyed it. The adventure is good and wanting to meet
President Lincoln has always been a secret dream of mine. The story is about Jack and Annie trying to
help Merlin save his baby penguin. They
must find a magical feather to help him.
The tree house takes them back to 1861 during one of the most unsettled
times of American history. Jack wants to
meet President Lincoln, but the president does not have time to meet with
them. Since I avoid spoilers, you’ll have
to read the rest.
The illustrations in the book are pen and are black and
white. The illustrations are done in the
most formal way with the exceptions of a few vignettes throughout the
text. Although this book does not have
as many pictures as most do, this is still considered a picture book.
This book would be good for kindergarten through sixth grade. For lower grades, it would need to be read aloud
to the class. This book would be good
for a history lesson on the presidents, our nation and war. It would also be good for a language arts
lesson for the students to read the book and write journal entries on what they
would do if they were in the same situation.
It would also be good for a social studies lesson on how cultures have
changed over the past 100 hundred years.
At this time this book has won no awards but it is on the “best books”
of 2011 list.
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