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Just Like Abraham Lincoln
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Waber has created a wonderful book that introduces this famous president to young children. He begins his story by introducing a modern-day little boy who has a next door neighbor that looks just like Lincoln. This man not only looks like Lincoln, but he has many of the same likes and habits that our famous president had.
Paperback
Published
January 1st 1990
by Scholastic
(first published 1964)
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Dec 22, 2017
Kelly
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it was amazing
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A little boy has a neighbor who looks just like Abraham Lincoln. He loves everything about Lincoln, and so does the boy.
This is a very charming story.
This is a very charming story.
A great read-aloud for President's Day in early elementary classrooms.
Feb 19, 2009
Kevin Fanning
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Recommends it for:
Abrham Lincoln fanfic completists.
This book flummoxed the heck out of me. A neighborhood man looks suspiciously like Abraham Lincoln. He is convinced to appear at the local school dressed as Abraham Lincoln. He then abruptly moves away, to be replaced by a man who looks suspiciously like George Washington. Wah? There's a wonderful, mind-blowing, time-traveling conspiracy theory of a story here, but it happens beyond the pages of this book.
Cute Childrens book about President Lincoln.
Such a cute book, that speaks of Ab Lincoln's physical attributes and great character.
I love having the excuse to reading this book to my kids because I thoroughly enjoy it.
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Bernard Waber was the youngest in a creative family. At age 8, he ushered in a movie theater after school, so he often saw only the last ten minutes of a movie. He made a game of inventing beginnings and middles. When he returned from a tour of duty in World War II, he entered the Philadelphia College of Art. With a diploma and a new wife, he traveled to New York City, where he began working for t
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