Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers by Karen B. Winnick
	List Price:   $16.95 Unit Price:   $13.56 You Save:   $3.39 (20%) ISBN-10:   1563974851 ISBN-13:   9781563974854 Publisher:   Boyds Mills Press Category:   Picture Books Pub. Date:   September 2003 Pages:   32 Format:   Trade Cloth Ages:   6 to 9 Grades:   0 to 2
Awards
1998  New York State Charlotte Award  Nominee/Honoree  1998  Virginia Reader's Choice Awards  Nominee/Honoree
Subjects
CHILDREN'S FICTION
Description/Notes
A young girl writes to Lincoln to suggest that he would gain votes if he grew whiskers. The true story of Grace Bedell, who suggested that Abraham Lincoln grow a beard. When Abraham Lincoln was president, what gave him the idea to grow a beard was a letter sent to him by an eleven-year-old girl from Westfield, New York, named Grace Bedell. Winnick tells this true story of the determined little girl who helped create Mr. Lincoln's image, illustrating it with her own beautiful oil paintings that capture the look and feel of 19th-century America.