Abraham Lincoln, seventy fifth Anniversary Version

This e-book is breathtakingly lovely… It is really a residing e-book that brings you in as you learn. It has rapidly develop into a household favourite! – Heather O.

Make Abraham Lincoln your kid’s pal with this e-book! Superbly written and illustrated, this e-book is unquestionably a keeper. – Janet

In honor of the seventy fifth anniversary of the 1940 Caldecott Medal award this version reintroduces readers younger and outdated to America’s most beloved President by way of beautiful illustrations comprised of the unique lithographic proofs the authors created in 1939. This pleasant biography traces Lincoln’s life from his beginning within the Kentucky wilderness, to his shop-keeping days in New Salem, turning into a lawyer in Springfield, and his eventual election as President. Woven all through are his legendary adventures, his humor and wit, and tales you will not learn wherever else.

Of our nation’s historic icons, Lincoln is the quintessential embodiment of American chance in his mythic-like rise from rail-splitter to Chief Govt and Emancipator of the oppressed. The admiration felt by People for Lincoln’s humble integrity, his noble statesmanship, and his eager sense of justice, is superbly captured within the illustrations and textual content.