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1. Ask students to tell you some facts they know about Abraham Lincoln. (Possible Answers: He was the 16th President of the United States; he signed the Emancipation Proclamation; he was shot by ...
Let's get one disappointment out of the way: Author Nikki Giovanni and illustrator Bryan Collier collaborated on the award-winning "Rosa" in 2005, but they've stumbled with Lincoln and Douglass ...
Abraham Lincoln liked nothing better, it has been said, than a room filled with good books. Maybe that’s why he looked so cheerful greeting children Monday in the Elmhurst Public Library&#821… ...
Scholastic Press: 224 pp., $16.99, ages 10 and up Steven Spielberg’s movie “Lincoln” is not for every child, and Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” is not even for every adult, but ...
Abraham Lincoln has a lot he can still teach today’s kids, says Olivia Mahoney, who has created a new exhibit at the Chicago History Museum that examines Lincoln through his own words. If you go.