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Traces the childhood, education, employment, and political career of the thirty-sixth president of the United States.

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School Library Journal Review

Gr 6-8-- These books compare favorably to those in the ``Encyclopedia of Presidents'' series (Childrens). Books in both series are similar in arrangement; the first chapter catches readers' interest with a description of a momentous event in the President's life, and the real story of his life begins in the second chapter. Both series offer useful chronologies, although the Children's Press listings are more extensive. The GEC books are slightly longer, and contain more information about each President's family life as well as a more ambitious portrayal of his personality. The Children's Press titles place more emphasis on facts and dates from the historical period and have more illustrations. Covers for both series are colorfully eye-catching and patriotic, although the cover portraits for the GEC books are more realistic, and they include the numerical order of the President. The GEC books look less like textbooks than the Children's Press series; they also include annotated bibliographies, which the Children's Press titles do not. Although Falkof is guilty of putting some rather silly fictional dialogue in the mouth of George Washington, most information in the GEC books is objective. For a consistently readable style and clarity of the personal portraits, the GEC series is superior. Both series help to fill a real void in materials for this age group. --Phyllis Graves, Creekwood Middle School, Kingwood, TX (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

Gr. 5-7. In these competently written biographies, the authors describe the childhoods, educations, political careers, and presidential years of 10 men who sat in the Oval Office. Each book begins with a dramatic moment (the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln; D-20Day, Eisenhower; Lincoln's assassination, Johnson; Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt; etc.), tying the man's life to his political destiny. Then, in a chronological sweep through each life, milestones from birth to death are addressed, often returning to the opening vignette. Chapters, broken down with subheadings for easy accessibility, are filled with statistics, facts, and quotes, although sources are not given. Sidebars comment on additional material (Washington's infamous teeth, Arthur's opening of the Brooklyn Bridge, amendments to the Constitution during the Wilson years); while somewhat interesting, they distract, at times, from the general flow. Numerous captioned graphics are found throughout, and a short annotated bibliography concludes each book. Although not as physically attractive as the presidential series published by Childrens Press, these titles will provide supplementary resource material for middle-grade students studying American histoy. --Barbara Elleman