Kid presidents : true tales of childhood from America's presidents

Author

David Stabler

Call Number

• J 973.099 STAB (CEN, OSH)

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Publication Information

Philadelphia, PA : Quirk Books, [2014]

Physical Description

215 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm

Audience

Ages 9-12.

Summary

The kids who grew up to be president were like a lot of other children. Some struggled with schoolwork and got into fights; others pranked their teachers and infuriated their parents. William Howard Taft was forced to take dance lessons. Gerald Ford struggled with dyslexia. Teddy Roosevelt had a bedroom "museum" full of dead animals. "Kid Presidents" features 20 captivating true stories from the childhoods of American presidents, complete with lively text and more than 200 cartoon illustrations.

Contents

• Ulysses S. Grant, the horseback kid
• Theodore Roosevelt and the Broadway Seal
• Richard Nixon and the size 9 boots of doom
• Jimmy Carter, arrowhead hunter
• Bill Clinton and the red, white, and blue sax
• George Washington, kid of the wild frontier
• Andrew Jackson, the littlest patriot
• Herbert Hoover, boy of the Osage
• Franklin D. Roosevelt and his day of freedom
• Barack Obama, new kid in town
• Abraham Lincoln and the not-so-wicked stepmother
• Dwight Eisenhower and his three lessons of leadership
• John F. Kennedy and the bullying big brother
• Lyndon Johnson, class clown
• Gerald Ford, the angriest boy in the world
• Ronald Reagan, near-sighted superhero.