{"id":395,"date":"2009-02-18T12:11:35","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T16:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/18\/review-of-abe-lincoln-crosses-a-creek-by-deborah-hopkinson-and-john-hendrix\/"},"modified":"2009-02-28T17:48:31","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T21:48:31","slug":"review-of-abe-lincoln-crosses-a-creek-by-deborah-hopkinson-and-john-hendrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"Review of Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek, by Deborah Hopkinson and John Hendrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image394\" height=\"240\" alt=\"abe_lincoln_crosses_a_creek.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/abe_lincoln_crosses_a_creek.jpg\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A Tall, Thin Tale<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Introducing His Forgotten Frontier Friend)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Deborah Hopkinson &#038; John Hendrix<\/p>\n<p>Schwarz &#038; Wade Books, New York, 2008.\u00a0 36 pages.<\/p>\n<p>In honor of Abe Lincoln&#8217;s 200th birthday, here&#8217;s a children&#8217;s picture book telling a story of how Abe Lincoln almost died when he was only seven years old.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Abe and his friend Austin were crossing a creek.\u00a0 Abe fell in, and his friend fished him out, saving his life and thus making a difference in the world for generations to come.<\/p>\n<p>Deborah Hopkinson has a delightful, folksy way of telling the story, talking about what we know and what we don&#8217;t know.\u00a0 The pictures of the green Kentucky valley where Abe lived and the mischievous boys add to the fun.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an endearing tale of friendship, suitable for young readers or listeners who might be tired of more straitlaced and serious stories of Abraham Lincoln.\u00a0 He did a foolish thing crossing that creek, but his friend saved him.\u00a0 Even Abraham Lincoln needed a friend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/037583768X\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on the main site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Nonfiction\/abe_lincoln_crosses_a_creek.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Nonfiction\/abe_lincoln_crosses_a_creek.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek A Tall, Thin Tale (Introducing His Forgotten Frontier Friend) by Deborah Hopkinson &#038; John Hendrix Schwarz &#038; Wade Books, New York, 2008.\u00a0 36 pages. In honor of Abe Lincoln&#8217;s 200th birthday, here&#8217;s a children&#8217;s picture book telling a story of how Abe Lincoln almost died when he was only seven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,11,12,15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-childrens-nonfiction-review","category-history","category-picture-book-review","category-true-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}