My Day with Abe Lincoln
Plotting to avoid another boring day at school, elementary-schooler Lucy Millaway decides to dress as absurdly as possible in hopes of being sent home. When she tops off her ensemble with a stovepipe hat from her brother’s magic kit, however, Lucy suddenly finds herself on a dirt path in the middle of the woods, where she encounters a boy and a girl walking to school. Accepting their invitation to accompany them, the bewildered Lucy soon learns that she is in rustic Spencer County, Indiana—and that her new friends are young Abraham Lincoln and his older sister, Sarah.
As Lucy goes through a day in the 1820s with Abe and Sarah—attending their one-room schoolhouse, learning lessons through the “blab” method of saying them aloud, meeting their father and stepmother, and hearing family stories—we painlessly learn a lot of Lincoln lore, some of which may be unfamiliar even to Lincoln buffs. Historian Jonathan W. White will leave young readers, as her time-traveling experience leaves Lucy, with an urge to learn more about America’s sixteenth president. The charming illustrations by Madeline Renaux add to the delightful experience.
