This Little President: A Presidential Primer

by Joan Holub, Daniel Roode (Illustrator)

Overview

Learn all about the US presidents with this fun and colorful board book perfect for leaders-in-training—updated to include all presidents!

Leading our country.
Helping you and me.
Keeping all fifty states
safe, happy, and free.
Little presidents have a great big job.

Now even the youngest patriots can learn about America’s presidential history with this bright and playful board book. Highlighting ten of the most memorable presidents—and featuring the first forty-five on the last page—parents and presidents-in-training alike will love sharing this fun primer full of age-appropriate facts, leadership skills, and White House history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781481458504
Publisher:	Little Simon
Publication date:	01/12/2016
Series:	This Little Series
Pages:	26
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 5.90(h) x 0.70(d)
Lexile:	AD530L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Joan Holub has authored and/or illustrated over 140 children’s books, including the Goddess Girls series, the Heroes in Training series, the New York Times bestselling picture book Mighty Dads (illustrated by James Dean), and Little Red Writing (illustrated by Melissa Sweet). She lives in North Carolina and is online at JoanHolub.com.

Daniel Roode is an illustrator and designer who draws inspiration from his French heritage, mid-century modern design, pop art, and nature. Daniel creates the bulk of his art digitally, an appropriate medium for his clean yet tactile aesthetic that has a distinct joie de vivre. He resides in Nashville, Tennessee, with his amazing wife Laura and their two funny cats.

Editorial Reviews

2016-02-02
Presidents for toddlers? Really? Ten U.S. presidents who were anything but "little" are featured in a rhyming board book. The choice of presidents is predictable: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Lincoln, Grant, both Roosevelts, Kennedy, Reagan, and Obama. On verso, a four-line stanza is accompanied by a uniformly vapid-looking presidential "portrait," and on recto, readers find a bit of presidential trivia and a slightly more detailed illustration. Selecting presidential achievements understandable to toddlers, an almost impossible task, results in oversimplification. John Adams, best known for diplomacy and the Alien and Sedition acts, is reduced to being the first vice president and the first president to live in the White House. Some information presented as fact is actually debated by presidential scholars on both the right and left. For example, speaking of Ronald Reagan, Holub asserts, "He brought the world together both near and far." The spread about Kennedy ("He sent our first astronaut into outer space") features a picture of Kennedy golfing with an astronaut as his caddy—a reference that only an adult will understand. Rhymes and sturdy pages do not necessarily make a book right for toddlers; don't expect this little book to please the little people for whom it was ostensibly designed. (Board book. 2-4)

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