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What to do about Alice? how Alice Roosevelt broke the rules, charmed the world, and drove her father Teddy crazy!

A brief biography in pictures and simple text of Alice Roosevelt, the daughter of Theodore Roosevelt and his first wife.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kerley, Barbara
Other Authors:	Fotheringham, Ed (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Scholastic Press, 2008.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, > 1884-1980 > Juvenile nonfiction. Roosevelt, Theodore, > 1858-1919 > Family > Juvenile nonfiction. Children of presidents > Biography > Juvenile. Legislators' spouses > United States > Biography > Juvenile.
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Summary:	A brief biography in pictures and simple text of Alice Roosevelt, the daughter of Theodore Roosevelt and his first wife.
Physical Description:	1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
ISBN:	9780439922319 0439922313
Author Notes:	Edwin Fotheringham's stylish, award-winning illustrations have graced the pages of The New Yorker , The Wall Street Journal , The New York Times , and many other publications. He has illustrated numerous highly acclaimed nonfiction picture books, such as Barbara Kerley's What to Do About Alice? , a Sibert Honor Book and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book; The Extraordinary Mark Twain (According to Susy) , a New York Public Library Best Children's Book; Those Rebels, John & Tom , an NCTE Orbis Pictus Award Honor Book; and A Home for Mr. Emerson , a NAPPA Gold Award winner; as well as younger fiction picture books, such as Pam Muñoz Ryan's Tony Baloney and the eponymous beginning reader series, Jennifer Hamburg's Monkey and Duck Quack Up! , a spring 2015 Indie Favorite, and Andria Rosenbaum's Big Sister, Little Monster . Ed lives in Seattle, Washington. Visit him online at edfotheringham.com. Barbara Kerley is a two-time Sibert Honoree and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honoree whose award-winning biographies include What to Do About Alice? , The Extraordinary Mark Twain (According to Susy) , Those Rebels, John & Tom , and A Home for Mr. Emerson , all illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham; Tigers & Tea with Toppy , illustrated by Matte Stephens; and The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins and Walt Whitman: Words for America , illustrated by Brian Selznick. Kerley's books have all been praised for their lively prose, meticulous research, and artistic presentation style. She lives in Portland, Oregon. Visit her online at barbarakerley.com.