Publisher Description
Celebrate Lincoln’s remarkable life in a fresh and exciting way.
Lincoln’s legacy is everywhere—there he is on your penny and five-dollar bill. He helped hold these United States together, but who was he, really? The little girl in Looking at Lincoln wants to find out. Among many other facts, she discovers that our sixteenth president was a man who believed in freedom for all; had a dog named Fido; loved Mozart, apples, and his wife’s vanilla cake; and kept his notes in his hat.
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About Maira Kalman
Maira Kalman has
written and illustrated more than a dozen children’s books, including Ooh-la-la-Max
in Love, What Pete Ate, and Fireboat: The Heroic
Adventures of the John Jay Harvey. Her children’s book 13 Words
was a collaboration with Lemony Snicket. Kalman is a frequent contributor to the New Yorker and is
well known for her collaboration with Rick Meyerowitz on the “New
Yorkistan” cover in 2001. Born in Tel Aviv, she moved to New York with her
family at the age of four and now lives in Manhattan.
About Elizabeth Cottle
Elizabeth Cottle
is an actress, singer, and theater director based in Northwest Ohio. She earned
a BFA in communication arts and musical theater from Ohio Northern University,
where she received an Irene Ryan Nomination. She is a veteran of more than
thirty community theater productions and was recognized for Excellence in
Acting by the Ohio Community Theatre Association. In addition to her theater
background, Cottle has a wide variety of performing experience, from serving
as lead vocalist with a jazz orchestra, to filming commercials, to doing improvised sketch comedy.