The life of Abraham Lincoln, America's greatest president, in a new, illustrated edition of the Newbery Honor classic.
Clara Ingram Judson's Newbery Honor Book is a richly drawn biography of Abraham Lincoln from his backwoods boyhood, to his days as a shopkeeper and lawyer, his entry into politics, and finally through his extraordinary presidency and tragic assassination.
Judson presents Lincoln as he was--the plain-spoken and practical man, often ridiculed as a country bumpkin, who won the Civil War, ended slavery, and saved the Union. Judson's narrative...
The life of Abraham Lincoln, America's greatest president, in a new, illustrated edition of the Newbery Honor classic.
It seemed to Mary Jane that some magic must have been at work to change the world during the night she slept on the train. All the country she knew had hills and valleys and many creeks and woods of pine trees. But when she waked up in the morning and peeped out of the window of her berth, she saw great wide fields and woods that seemed always far away. And the occasional creek that the train rumbled over was small and could be seen a long way off, coming across the fields toward the railroad. And the roads How funny they were They came straight and white toward the train, each just exactly...
It seemed to Mary Jane that some magic must have been at work to change the world during the night she slept on the train. All the country she knew ha...