GEORGE WASHINGTON

by Ingri & Edgar Parin D'Aulaire ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 4, 1936

This is a ""natural"" -- first, on the basis of the author-artist combination, which hasn't failed us yet; second, on the basis of this being, to my knowledge, the first thoroughly satisfactory introduction to the story of Washington for children to whom pictures are still a vital factor. One feels a warm sense of his actual living as a small boy in Colonial Virginia, as a young surveyor, as a budding soldier. The war years are given their proper emphasis. The story carries him up to the presidency. The unauthenticated cherry and colt stories are omitted, but the character of the growing boy is there. The pictures may seem to need some interpretation -- they are less direct than the more recent work of the D'Aulaire's would lead one to expect, but, with the text, they are very interesting.

Pub Date: Sept. 4, 1936

ISBN: 0964380315

Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday, Doran

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1936

Categories: CHILDREN'S