DK Biography Abraham Lincoln: A Photographic Story of a Life

by Tanya Lee Stone and Richard Hamblyn

Book Overview

Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president of the United States, led the nation through its darkest hour-the Civil War. Find out about Lincoln's childhood on a frontier farm, how a struggling small town... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0756608341
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: DK Children
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.3" x 5.1"

Customer Reviews

Really nice, quality Book!

This book was purchased for my 7 year old grandson as a Christmas present. He really likes Mr. Lincoln. The book was in wonderful condition, as described by the buyer. The shipping time quite good, considering it was almost Christmas. Thanks!

Great book for both adults and children

When I visited the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Musuem (for the second time) last October, I saw this book at the cash register when I was buying my other purchases. I quickly thumbed through the book and saw that it had lots of pictures of things in the Lincoln era and since I love looking at photographs and painting from times gone by, I decided on an impulse to buy it. I think that this is a great book to introduce children (children from about the 3rd grade up) to a more in-depth look into the life of Abraham Lincoln. The language would be easy for a child to understand and the author explains any word that she thinks that a kid would have a hard time knowing what it meant. The book is only a 128 pages, which is not too long for children to read and not get bored. But I also think that this is a great book for adults too. I'm currently 24 and I enjoyed reading it. Lincoln's story always fascinates me and I enjoy reading any book that I can find about him. The only thing that I had a slight problem with is that the author tended to put Mary Todd Lincoln in a negative light. I would have preferred her to let her feelings about Mary come through. So I would definitely recommend this book to both adults and children alike, who are interested in Abraham Lincoln's life.

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Abraham Lincoln Do you know the president in the time of the Civil War? This book tells you about Abrahams Lincoln's early childhood, like what schools he went to as a young boy. When he started to grow he started to help with his father on the farm. He started to get jobs like doing deliveries for a man named Denton Offutt. After some time Lincoln started to get into law. Soon he became a traveling lawyer. He goes for elections; his famous election was against Johnson Douglas for president. During his time as president the Civil War started. This book also tells you about his hardships he went through as presidents; you also get to know his point of view as president. It is an awesome book. I think this is a good book for people who like American History. I like the way in which the book tells about Abraham Lincoln's character. I learned about his family and relatives. I learned important dates ex. The start of the Civil War. If you want to know about Abraham Lincoln this is the book to read

An excellent, illustrated intermediate biography of Abraham Lincoln

I just finished reading "Team of Rivals" by Doris Kearns Goodwin and am in frame of mind to be spending more time reading about Abraham Lincoln. Tanya Lee Stone's volume for the DK Biography series is "A photographic story of a life," but that does not mean young readers are going to be confronted with just photographs and captions (although such books about Lincoln certainly exist). Her introduction speaks of the nation's fascination with Lincoln, touching on the many reasons he is one of the most beloved figures in American history. Stone emphasizes the idea that it is because Lincoln believed in the Declaration of Independence's proposition that "all Men are created equal." Before Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address those words were not considered as sacred as they are today. Without Lincoln at Gettysburg you do not have Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial (a statement that is true on several significant levels). Stone covers Lincoln's life in a fairly concise manner, and while the book begins trying to show how a poor boy from the wilds of Kentucky could grow up to become president of the United States, it ends up trying to explain how Lincoln became the sort of man and president that is remembered. This juvenile biography tries to provide a fresh point of view based on the latest scholarship, so young students who have been reading books about Lincoln and the Civil War may notice some different viewpoints, but only if they have really been paying attention to when those other books were written. The result is more than an introductory biography, so this volume serves as an intermediate look at Lincoln's life. Those familiar with Lincoln's life will be well aware that there are more facts behind everything here (e.g., the political maneuvering orchestrated by Lincoln to secure the Republican nomination for president in 1860), but then this is not intended to be a comprehensive biography and Stone certainly covers the key parts and provides a solid foundation for young readers to continue their study of Lincoln. Even though this is a paperback sized DK book, it still has more than 100 photographs, artworks, and artifacts (it is always the latter that gives you a sense of visiting a museum, which is one of the chief attractions of the series). There are actually a few pages that do not have any illustrations, but even more end up with more than one, and the illustrations are always on point to the topics under discussion in the main text. Throughout the volume there are small boxes that define key words (e.g., "milk sickness," "reconstruction"), and sidebars that provide details about key people (e.g., Ulysses S. Grant, John Wilkes Booth), issues (e.g., Lincoln and Depression, Thanksgiving), and events (e.g., Nat Turner Rebellion, Dredd Scott Decision) in Lincoln's life. There is a two-page timeline of Events in the Life of Abraham Lincoln that actually extends beyond to the dedic

Abraham Lincoln

This is a very informative book that would be good for children in primary grades to read. The book seems to be easy reading and has information from the day Lincoln was born until the day he passed. I would recommend this book for children interested in researching Abraham Lincoln.