A Picture Book of George Washington

This was a good book to find historical information on George Washington. It puts his life in student friendly definitions.

where can i find the e-book? i want to read it eagerly.

This book is about George Washington's life from the time he is young. It tells all about Washington's school experience, his first jobs, and is war experiences, presidental experiences, and post-president experiences. It has the facts, but tells his life in a story format.

Summary:
This book is about George Washington and how he grew up. From when he was a child to when he fought in the Revolutionary War, to his death.
Personal Reaction:
This book is great to break down the details for kids to understand. I remember reading this book in elementary. It is a great book

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how it explains on a child's level.
Classroom Ideas:
1. I would do a unit in February around Presidents day and read this book and a few other Presidents books.
2. In an older class like 2nd or 3rd grade i would have my class do a report on any President.

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Retelling: This is a very fact-driven biography of George Washington. The author makes few attempts to highlight any personal characteristics of George Washington or speculate about how circumstances made him feel. Instead, the author focuses on events in George Washington's life and how old he was

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when they occurred.

Thoughts and Feelings: Well... you can't accuse this author of trying to put forward any kind of message or agenda using President Washington as a vehicle. This is pretty straightforward: this-is-the-guy, these-were-the-times account. This author says "George Washington was a great leader." I don't like it when authors tell me what to think. Show me what great leadership looks like and let me decide.

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Appropriate for Kindergarten class. Students can help tell the story of George Washington by describing the pictures in the book.
The pictures allow the students to help the teacher tell the story by what they see in the pictures.
* Excellent book for read-aloud as a class
* Students can make their

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own picture books.

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This is a brief biography of the life of our first president, George Washington.

This book gives wonderful and easily read information on George Washington. A teacher could use this book as the introduction to History. George Washington did many things for this country and this picture book with allow students to get all of the information about him without reading it out of a

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text book and getting board.

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I think this is a good children's book. I like the layout of the story. I like that the author included only necessary information into the story with his important life events because sometimes biographies include too much information, which loses the attention of the reader. I also like that the

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book is written for children of young age groups. It is informational, but is presented in simple words for younger readers. It can be difficult to find biographies for young children that are on their level. I think the main message of this book is to aspire to be a leader.

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This book narrates the life of George Washington from the time he was a boy going to school, to his involvement with the Virginia Army, to his marriage, to his presidency. The book also shows the progression of the 13 original colonies to becoming 13 states.

Summary
This is a biography of George Washington. It was a lot of facts that early childhood age children and understand. It covers all the important facts and things he did.
Personal reaction
I think this is a good book for younger children.
Idea Extensions
This book and be used as a history lesson on

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George Washington.
It can teach children about not only George Washington but also the things in his era such as the Wars, The colonies, and Army's

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• Summary of content/review: This book is a biography of George Washington. It begins at his birth, and recounts the important events of his life and how he shaped America, and became the Father of our country.
• Evaluation: This book’s format is expository and is very clearly written, making

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it easy for younger children to follow along.
• Target audience: 1st-3rd grades
• Connection to classroom: I would use this text when explaining the start of American history as well as making it a mentor text, and having ti available in the classroom for children to reference.

GenreL biography, historical, picture book

RI.1.1 Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.

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A Picture Book of George Washington, is a cute book over the life of George Washington. The books covers fact about him from when he was a boy to when he died. The book start by telling us that when George was a boy he loved to fish and ride horses. As he got older he learned to land survey and

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that became his job. At the age of 21 he was in the English army and helped them win the war against France. When the King of England try to tax the English/American colonies to help pay for the war, the people were angry. George Washington was a great leader in the fight against England during the American Revolution. George Washington was appointed our first president because of his leadership and our Nation’s capital is named after him.
I enjoyed this book. There are a lot of facts and I think it is great for children to know these things about George Washington, I didn’t even know everything in the book. Having a picture book I think will keep children’s attention, because it will seem like any other story they have listen to. I feel like they can relate to the color pictures more than to the old photographs.
Classroom extensions:
1. After the book the children could make a graphic organizer about George Washington, answering the questions was, had, and wanted.
2. For younger children the class could make a George Washington head out of a paper plate, cotton balls (wig), and his blue hat.

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Summary:
This book is about George Washington it starts during his early childhood and goes to his death. He was a student and he loved arithmetic. Then he was a surveyer of the Virigina wilderness.He fought in the French and Indian War. He got married to a widow with 2 children. Then he was the

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leader of the Colonial Army.

Personal reaction: I like learning about history so this was a good book to read.

Classroom extension ideas:
1.The class could do a word search from the words in the story.
2.The class could do a multiple choice test to see how much they comprenhended.

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Perfect for lower elementary students doing their first real report. Makes a great read-aloud for non-readers as they are easily completed in one sitting. The cute cartoon-like pictures are kid friendly. But most importantly, they are loaded with information including a timeline of important events.

great for young readers such as kinder, 1st, and 2nd. Great for children to learn history. Students can also learn to do reports over important people or books with these types of books. biogrpahy

In my opinion this was a good book, because it was really easy to read and it made history interesting. As I read the book I found out that it was very descriptive, which is important when you are reading about history, especially history that has to deal with the first president of the United

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States. The illustrations are what caught my attention from the beginning and that’s why I picked it from the library shelf. Because of the illustrations I was able to picture what went on during that era which enhanced the story even more. The writing style was very well structured I really loved how, the book was really descriptive with the Presidents life. The big idea of this book was to show inform the reader about George Washington. The book also talked about George Washington’s background so the reader could get to know him a little better.

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A brief account of the life of the "Father of Our Country".

Yesterday was Presidents' Day here in the states, a federal holiday that originally commemorated the birthday of George Washington (February 22nd, 1732), but which now celebrates all of our presidents. In honor of the day, I decided to track down a picture-book biography of our first president, and

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having recently read some other entries in David A. Adler's Picture Book Biographies series, settled upon this one, as a likely candidate for a first introduction to the subject for young children. The narrative here outlines the many events of Washington's turbulent life, from his childhood in Virginia to his service in the French and Indian War, his leadership of the American forces during the Revolution, and his election as the new nation's first president. The text is accompanied by the illustrations of John and Alexandra Wallner, and a timeline is included at the rear.

First published in 1989, A Picture Book of George Washington was the sixth entry in Adler's series, and provides (with one exception) a good basic introduction to its subject's life. The text is simple and easily understood, and while it doesn't really give much background information regarding the historical causes of any of the events chronicled, it gives enough that young children will understand the major periods in Washington's life, coming away with an appreciation for all he accomplished. My main criticism of the book would be that it never mentions the fact that Washington was a slave owner, either in the main narrative or in the timeline. This surprised me, as the first volume from this series that I read, A Picture Book of Christopher Columbus, did mention (however briefly) the deleterious effects of Columbus' voyage on the native peoples of the Caribbean. I understand that in books intended for this age group - I would say it is suitable for children between four and six years old - it is appropriate to concentrate more on the positive aspects of the subject under discussion, but I nevertheless feel uncomfortable seeing all of the negatives simply omitted. A simple mention of the fact that Washington owned slaves, perhaps followed by the information that he posthumously freed them, would have sufficed here, given the nature of this book. In the end, I think this is a title I would only recommend in conjunction with some other picture-book about the subject, and I suspect, much as with my current project to find picture-books about Martin Luther King Jr. that I would recommend, I have a new project on my hands.

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George Washington, born in 1732, learned to read and write in school and discovered that he enjoyed surveying. At sixteen, he obtained a position as a surveyor and worked in the Virginia wilderness.

At the age of twenty-one, George joined the Virginia army; he led Virginia soldiers against the

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French in the French and Indian War. He had a reputation as a brave and good leader.

Five years after he joined the army, George married Martha Custis and moved to Mount Vernon. When the American colonies began fighting with the English, they chose George to lead the Continental Army. Eight years later, when the war was over, brave George was a hero and he became America’s first president.

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Early primary-grade readers, grades one through three, ages six through eight, are the targeted audience for this book; the book is part of the author’s Picture Book Biography series.

Colorful illustrations accompany this biography of George Washington. Written for the young reader, the book focuses on some of the highlights of his career while illustrating his life before and after his term as president. A chart highlighting the important dates in Washington’s life is also included.

Highly recommended.

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