Lincoln as father

President’s Day is a celebration of two great Presidents, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.  Moreover, President Lincoln, the man our current President calls his role model, was born two hundred years ago today.  I’m joyfully awash with all of the Lincoln information I’ve read and heard about in the last week.  At the end of this post, there are links to music, book reviews, the Abraham Lincoln bookshop and a beautiful tribute.  So many adult books on Lincoln were published recently, it’s hard to keep up with them.  I’m going a different route for this Recommended Reading post.  I’m focusing on a recently published children’s picture book, Mr. Lincoln’s Boys written by Staton Rabin and illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline, and Tad Lincoln’s Father, a memoir published 70 years ago by Julia Taft Bayne. Read the rest of this entry »