Lincoln: A Photobiography

Title: “Lincoln: A Photobiography”

Author: Russell Freedman                          

Genre: Biography

Publisher: Clarion Books

Copyright Date:  1987

Pages in Book: 160 pages

Reading Level: 9-12 years

Summary: This book basically was about Abraham Lincolns life, and what he liked, disliked, did as a child, did with his children, how he acted around the white house and so on. It was all informational. It told of how he didn’t like to be called Abe, and he liked to wear his slippers around the White House (those are just a few examples)

Reaction: Honestly, I thought it was a good book, but I’m not one for reading biography’s, so I wasn’t very interested in reading this.

Recommendation: I’d probably recommend this book to older children, and I don’t think that I would recommend it to children. Maybe if there were having it read to them, but not to read on their own. I feel like the children would fall asleep while reading this book.

Potential Problems/Conflicts: For me, I just didn’t like the book. I thought it was rather long, and I didn’t feel that the author captivated my attention. I didn’t want to keep reading, and I didn’t care to really find out more about Abraham Lincoln. Maybe if it had been in a different context, I just didn’t feel like it was very entertaining, especially for a young child to read.