The Founding Fathers!: Those Horse-Ridin', Fiddle-Playin', Book-Readin', Gun-Totin' Gentlemen Who Started America

In this eye-opening look at our Founding Fathers that is full of fun facts and lively artwork, it seems that Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and their cohorts sometimes agreed on NOTHING...except the thing that mattered most: creating the finest constitution in world history, for the brand-new United States of America.

Tall! Short! A scientist! A dancer! A farmer! A soldier!

The founding fathers had no idea they would ever be called the "founding Fathers," and furthermore they could not even agree exactly on what they were founding!

Should America declare independence from Britain? "Yes!" shouted some. "No!" shouted others.

"Could you repeat the question?" shouted the ones who either hadn't been listening or else were off in France having fun, dancin' the night away.

Slave owners, abolitionists, soldiers, doctors, philosophers, bankers, angry letter-writers--the men we now call America's Founding Fathers were a motley bunch of characters who fought a lot and made mistakes and just happened to invent a whole new kind of nation.

And now here they are, together again, in an exclusive engagement!

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 01/06/2015
ISBN: 9781442442740
Pages: 48
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.70w x 0.50d

Review Citations: School Library Journal 11/01/2014 pg. 133
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2014
Publishers Weekly 12/22/2014
Booklist 02/01/2015 pg. 33
Shelf Awareness 01/27/2015
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 03/01/2015
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2015 pg. 213 - Recommended, Satisfactory
PW Children's Starred Reviews 12/02/2015 pg. 46

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 173567 / Founding Fathers! Those Horse-Ridin', Fiddle-Playin', Book-Readin', Gun-Totin' Gentlemen Who Started
Reading Level: 6.3 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 1