Review: Lincoln from the perspective of a child
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 15, 2013
Celeste Holland writes a short but lovely story of Abraham Lincoln the father. Julia Taft and her brothers are playmates to Lincoln's own two younger sons and the fun begins. With dress up parties in the attics, court-martials of dolls and all kinds of childhood pranks, Holland writes of Lincoln the father, who just happens to be president during one of the most horrible times in American history.  While at times, it loses it's story like feel, the book still gives you an inside view of what life was like  for the Lincoln children.  Terrific way to teach history, humanizing the key players to help children identify with what was going on around them.