A. Lincoln and Me

by Louise Borden

Book Overview

Skinny as a beanpole and tall for his age, an awkward young boy learns that Abraham Lincoln was called "gorilla, baboob, backwards hick." Yet along with big feet and big hands, Lincoln had a big heart and the great ability to keep a nation together. And what the boy learns as he studies Lincoln opens his mind to great possibilities for his own future.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590457152
• ISBN13: 9780590457156
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.9" x 10.9"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Lincoln and Me

This book is clearly written, beautifully illustrated, and it provides for very enjoyable reading for adults as well as children.The illustrations are a combination of watercolor artwork as well as sketches. The book is written in verse and makes a marvelous reading for young readers. I read it to my first grade class and they loved it.

A wonderful, quiet tale of admiration for Lincoln

Louise Borden's "A. Lincoln and Me" has the great good luck of being illustrated by Ted Lewin. Author and painter work quiet miracles herein, with Borden's young boy reflecting on Lincoln and the similarities they share (not the least of which includes the same birthday).Lewin makes a powerful impression here with his pencil sketches of Lincoln shadowing the boy throughout the book. This deft use of pencil, juxtaposed with watercolor paintings of the boy, draw a subtle line between history and modernity, while the size differential (the boy is always smaller than is Lincoln) underscores Lincoln's importance, both in history and to the boy personally. Really very highly recommended for any child, especially those who have an interest in either Lincoln or the Civil War.

A. Lincoln and Me

This a wonderful children's book for early elementary teachers. It has so many possible uses. Some of these include: individual differences, historical fiction to interest children in history, and the introduction to money. Plus, the illustrations are simply fabulous. I just love this book!

Not just for children

Every so often a gift is given to a parent when reading a book for children. The gift is that moment when the book being read becomes just as interesting, charming, funny or poignant to the parent as it is to the child. I received such a gift when I read this book. In short, simple, poetic sentences the author has managed to make vivid a great man who with the passing of years has become less human and more "historic." At the same time, the young boy in the story who discovers the likenesses between Lincoln and himself is poignantly real in his embarrassment with his awkward physical self. The dead president inspires the boy, and vice-versa: the boy opens a path for us to A. Lincoln. You can buy this book for your child, but you'll be buying yourself a treat as well.

A. Lincoln and Me

This is an excellent picture book for young readers. Louis Borden has done a great job with the writing of this book. The book is about a young boy who loves the fact that he shares his birthday with our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln. Throughout the book, the boy also discusses physical attributes that he shares with Lincoln. These attributes consist of large hands, large feet, and a "bean pole" stature. Ted Lewin has done a wonderful job with the illustrations of this book. The first time I looked at the pictures, I actually thought they were photographs because they looked so life-like.