The details are what make this book amazing. The niece thought it was a cute story for the holiday of July 4th. He liked several of the kids in this as the funniest. He new most of these stories and he loved the humor.
We do find out the myth of George Washington saying “I cannot tell a lie” was a myth a mason made up that stuck.īoth kids enjoyed this. There are several funny Ben Franklin phrases and it really makes Thomas Jefferson out to be an egghead which I’m sure he was. The illustrations are wonderful and it’s a great beginning story about the founding of our country. Paul did ring bells as a child and this book posits he was hard of hearing and yelled all the time. John Hancock signed his name on the chalk board bigger than anyone else which is why he was the first one to sign. It tells of each person like they are a child and it shows their quirks as kids that eventually help them as adults be the great men they were. (Apr.This humorous book about our founding fathers is very funny, with informative tidbits and set up like they are sorta the Beatles. The book closes with "ye olde True or False section," as hilarious as it is informative, a wonderful complement to this singular blend of parody and historically accurate events. His likenesses of famous faces and 1700s fashion invigorate textbook accounts, and he rounds off the volume with familiar oil paintings of his subjects and short captions on their actual accomplishments. In weathered shades of brick-red, parchment white and antique blue, layered with collage details from period primers and designed with Early American typefaces, Smith imagines each child's eccentric playground manners. Know-it-all Ben spouts aphorisms, irritating his classmates, and Tom gets a time-out in school for refusing to build a balsa-wood birdhouse and instead using "traditional materials in a neoclassical design" (à la Monticello). George is known for his honesty, and the cherry-tree incident gets wry treatment here. It took many years and a midnight ride for people to finally appreciate his special talent." Meanwhile, John has excellent, if ostentatious, penmanship. Here they are! Great, big, extra-large underwear!'. Thing)." Paul, a boy whose penchant for loud bell-ringing leaves him with a tendency to yell, works in a shop where his voice embarrasses customers: " 'Extra-large underwear? Sure we have some! Let's see.
There was also Independent Tom (always off doing his own , you want a revolution?" the narrator asks, referring to 1776) as Smith introduces each fellow. Beatles allusions, like the title, are mercifully few but well-placed (" Say ) profiles the Founding Fathers as the nonconformist kids they might have been. For those constitutionally opposed to history lessons, Smith ( Math Curse
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