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Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2015.
Description
Brothers Willie and Taddie share stories about their father, Abraham Lincoln, from 1859 to 1865.
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Based on actual events, Lincoln and His Boys contains three stories of Abraham Lincoln's youngest sons Willie and Tad. It's definitely interesting to see Lincoln through the eyes of his sons, but Rosemary Wells says in the author's note, "No detail was imagined or invented except the dialogue and
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the circumstances in which it took place." I have to wonder: why even fictionalize it? Why not just write a straight nonfiction book? The book is definitely marketed and cataloged as fiction, but I would have been on board with it if it had been done as nonfiction or biography. As a fiction story, I found it pretty boring. Show Less
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Awards
Utah Beehive Book Award (Nominee — Children's Fiction — 2012)
Iowa Children's Choice Award (Nominee — 2014)
Charter Oak Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2012)
ISBN
9780763680695