Abigail Adams / written and illustrated by Alexandra Wallner.
Record details
- ISBN: 0823414426
- ISBN: 0823414426
- ISBN: 9780823414420
- ISBN: 0823419428
- ISBN: 9780823419425
- Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Holiday House, ©2001.
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | A biography of Abigail Adams, wife of second United States President John Adams, and a dedicated wife and mother who spoke up against slavery and for women's rights. |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR LG 4.7 0.5 46490. Reading Counts RC K-2 4.1 2 Quiz: 27377 Guided reading level: N. |
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Genre: | Biographies. |
Available copies
- 9 of 9 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Silas Bronson Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 9 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Silas Bronson Library - Waterbury | JB ADAMS, A WAL (Text) | 34005089970445 | Juvenile Biography | Available | - |
School Library Journal Review
Abigail Adams
School Library Journal
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Gr 2-4-Adams is introduced as a bright, curious individual whose thoughts about freedom and equality transcend her domestic chores. Though women's rights were meager in the 18th century, this strong-minded lady managed to make a political statement by brewing "liberty tea" and weaving her own cloth to avoid buying British goods. Her numerous letters included all sorts of advice from tips on etiquette to how to run the country. Though her first duty was to her husband and children, she never relented in her desire to abolish slavery and bring equal rights to women. This picture-book biography introduces readers to the upheavals of revolution that resulted in the reorganization of the country into a democracy. It portrays the wife of a president and mother of another as a woman who was ahead of her time. It is written for a younger audience than Clare H. Meeker's Partner in Revolution: Abigail Adams (Benchmark, 1997) or Francene Sabin's Young Abigail Adams (Troll, 1997). Full-page, colorful pictures in a folk-art style contribute greatly to the text, capturing the daily life, clothing, and household routines of the times.-Ilene Abramson, Los Angeles Public Library (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publishers Weekly Review
Abigail Adams
Publishers Weekly
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Joining the likes of Betsy Ross and Beatrix Potter, Alexandra Wallner's newest biography, Abigail Adams, brings another famous woman to life. She depicts Adams as loyal, curious and determined to "[speak] up against slavery and for women's rights" during the time of the American Revolution, through to her days when, as First Lady, hers was the first presidential family to occupy the White House. Detailed full-page illustrations depict colonial dress and architecture. ( Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus Review
Abigail Adams
Kirkus Reviews
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Abigail Adams, wife and mother of American presidents, with a remarkable story of her own, gets a rather dull introduction to her life in Wallner's ( Sergio and the Hurricane , 2000, etc.) picture-book biography. Wallner's text plods through Abigail's life, noting important dates and events, particularly the birth of all her children. Abigail supports her husband in his fight for independence at home, where she runs the family farm and manages the finances and her growing family. She also joins Adams in England when he is ambassador there. Later, she becomes the first president's wife to live in the White House. Abigail is shown as a strong woman, disappointed in her efforts to win a place for women and blacks in the new Constitution. Readers learn about Abigail's thoughts and personality as she matures from child to adult, from homemaker to public figure, but unfortunately we do not hear more than a few phrases in Abigail's own voice. Abigail, who is known through her many published letters, was a lively and interesting correspondent and little of that liveliness permeates this effort. The author's folkart-style illustrations depict a homely group of colonialists in pleasantly colorful detail. A timeline and bibliography would have been helpful to young researchers. This intelligent, early feminist and civil-rights advocate deserves better. (Biography. 8-10)
The Horn Book Review
Abigail Adams
The Horn Book
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(Primary) Wallner begins her chronologically organized text, ""Abigail Smith was born on November 11, 1744, to the Reverend William and Elizabeth Quincy Smith."" Other momentous events+personal ones such as marriage and the birth of children as well as political ones like the battles of Lexington and Concord and the Declaration of Independence+are presented in a like manner. This verbal formality seems at odds with curious and independent-minded Abigail Adams, who spoke out against the rigidity of her time. The first illustration, done in the na+f folk art of Wallner's previous picture book biographies of famous women, shows a pensive Abigail, surrounded by candle and books, the only female in attendance in her father's library, listening to the conversation between two men. Similarly flat paintings reveal Abigail, her child in arms, directing a farmhand while a cat and goose squabble in the foreground; or a lively family dining scene where all four members gesticulate in animated discourse; or a bustling domestic scene where four colonial women cook, spin, weave and stretch fabric, helped and distracted by their children. Several pictures show Abigail alone at her desk, engaged in the letter writing for which she became famous (an author's postscript tells us that more than two thousand of her letters survived). Despite the stylized simplicity of Wallner's art, these portraits of Abigail Adams in colonial blues against a muted, stippled pastel background suggest a woman of many moods. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
BookList Review
Abigail Adams
Booklist
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Ages 5^-8, older for reading alone. Wallner continues her picture-book biography series, which includes titles about Betsy Ross and Louisa May Alcott. This time, she looks at the wife of one president, the mother of another, and a champion for women. What Wallner makes very clear is that Adams was a strong, bright woman. Though she spent much of her time as a hostess and mother, she also managed the family farm and the finances and worked for her country in her own right. And while the book shows the closeness between Abigail and her husband, John Adams was nowhere near as enlightened as his wife. When Abigail wrote him a letter stating her views about women's and slaves' rights, he replied, "I cannot but laugh." Both the telling and the folk art^-style illustrations are a bit staid, but have some charms--for example, the quote from John above and the view of a busy colonial kitchen, where women weave, sew, spin, and cook as children both help and hinder. A solid choice for primary biography shelves. --Ilene Cooper