Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers - Softcover

Winnick, Karen B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1563978059 ISBN 13: 9781563978050

Publisher: Astra Young Readers, 1999

Synopsis

Abraham Lincoln was the first President of the United States to wear a beard. What gave him the idea was a letter he received from an eleven-year-old girl from Westfield, New York named Grace Bedell. "Dear Sir," she wrote, " . . . if you will let your whiskers grow I will try to get (my brothers) to vote for you. You would look a great deal better for your face is so thin. All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husbands to vote for you . . ."

About this title

From the Author:

"I've always been a fan of Abraham Lincoln and in some of the Lincoln books I've read there was mention of Grace and her letter--I wondered, who was Grace Bedell? I came to understand that though Lincoln was famous, he still possessed the humility to listen to the advice of a young girl. And Grace was too young to vote, but even if she were grown-up she couldn't have voted. Women didn't get to vote until 1920. So this was her way of saying that her opinion was important, too. These underlying messages made me want to write this story."

About the Author:

Karen Winnick is an author and illustrator of Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers, Sybil's Night Ride, Lucy's Cave, A Year Goes Round, Barn Sneeze, Cassie's Sweet Berry Pie, Sandro's Dolphin and Patch & The Strings.  She is the author The Night of the Fireflies.  Her paintings have been exhibited in local galleries, and her poetry has been published in magazines and anthologies. She has also produced a play, Kindertransport, about Jewish children sent to England during WWII.

Karen serves as President of the Board of Commissioners for the Los Angeles Zoo; the Board of Trustees Emeritus at Brown University; the Board of Trustees at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library; the Board of Trustees of Fauna and Flora, International   and the Board of Governors Syracuse University Hillel. She has also served on the Board of Trustees of The Jewish Museum in New York and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Council in Washington, D.C.

Karen received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University.  She also studied in Florence, Italy, at NYU, the School of Visual Arts, and at the University of California, Los Angeles.

About this edition

• Publisher: Astra Young Readers
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1563978059
• ISBN 13: 9781563978050
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32