Thomas Jefferson: A Picture Book Biography

by James Cross Giblin

Book Overview

Now available in paperback for the first time, James Cross Giblin and Michael Dooling relate the story of our nation's third president and author of the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590448617
• ISBN13: 9780590448611
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Scholastic Inc
• Length: 37 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Dear Mr. Jefferson....

This a good book for intermediate children on up. The author knows how to write to inform without a lot of fluff. Thomas Jefferson was a very complicated man. He lost his wife after only 10 years of marriage, his grief over this lasted 6 months, and then into the political man that we all have learned and loved. Yet, his inner man struggled with equality of each person, especially with the black slaves that he owned. In many memoirs, he expresses this thought-provoking justice, yet he does not free those slaves. In examining Thomas Jefferson, it should allow us to examine ourselves, as the inner-person struggles on the deep pains of the heart.

An excellent book for elementary school children

My second-grader decided to research Thomas Jefferson for a school report. I ordered this book and was quite pleased. It has lots of good information without being wordy. In the back of the book is a two-page spread of quotes from Jefferson, as well as a timeline of his life. The illustrations are beautiful! Highly recommended.