If You Grew Up With Abraham Lincoln (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

McGovern, Ann

ISBN 10: 0808579207 ISBN 13: 9780808579205

Publisher: Turtleback, 1992

Synopsis

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Illustrated text reveals the kind of life a child would lead if he had grown up in the days of Lincoln's boyhood.

About this title

About the Author:

Ann McGovern was born and raised in New York. She was fascinated by reading and has been doing so ever since she was a little girl. Ms. McGovern also enjoys travelling and has been to every continent. McGovern worked at Scholastic, Inc. and created the See-Saw Book Club. She left in 1967 to devote all of her time to writing. Many of McGovern’s books are about nature, ecology, history, adventures around the world, biographies of heroic women, retelling folk tales, and the world beneath the sea, reflecting her own avid interests in these topics. Her books have won many awards including Author of the Year,” given by Scholastic’s Lucky Book Club. Her four children and three grandchildren all scuba dive.

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Would you work hard on the frontier? There was no end to the work that had to be done.

Girls helped their mothers wash, cook, and sew buckskin into shirts and pants. They helped spin, weave, and make soap. Even a five-year-old boy was big enough to help with the planting. He could drop pumpkin seeds between the hills of corn.

Abe did.

By the time Abe was seven, his father gave him an axe. Abe kept the woodbox filled with logs for the fire.

He cleaned out the ashes from the fireplace.

He picked berries, nuts and grapes in the woods.

When the Lincoln family moved to Indiana, there was more work to be done. Abe helped his father build the new log cabin.

There was no running water in a log cabin. Whenever the well went dry, Abe had to walk a mile to the nearest spring and had to carry water home.

He helped his father farm. He plowed. He planted. He weeded.

He chopped down trees. He split logs into rails for fences. People on the frontier said that a rail fence should be horse-high, bull-strong, and pig-tight. That meant it should be strong enough so a bull could not push it over. And it should be tight enough so a pig could not squeeze through it.

About this edition

• Publisher: Turtleback
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0808579207
• ISBN 13: 9780808579205
• Binding: School & Library Binding
• Number of pages: 80
• Illustrator: Ulrich George