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What To Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy!

What To Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy!
By Barbara Kerley

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Theodore Roosevelt had a small problem. Her name was Alice. Alice Lee Roosevelt was hungry to go places, meet people, do things. Father called it running riot. Alice called it eating up the world. Whether she was entertaining important White House visitors with her pet snake or traveling the globe, Alice bucked convention and turned every new experience into an adventure! Brimming with affection and wit, this spirited biography gives readers a peek family life inside the White House. Prose and pictures spring, gambol, and two-step across the pages to celebrate a maverick American heroine.

 

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #107056 in Books
  • Published on: 2008-03-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 48 pages

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"Irrepressible Alice Roosevelt gets a treatment every bit as attractive and exuberant as she was....The large format gives Fotheringham, in his debut, plenty of room for spectacular art." --Starred Review, Booklist, December 15, 2007

"Kerley s text gallops along with a vitality to match her subject s antics, as the girl greets White House visitors accompanied by her pet snake, refuses to let leg braces cramp her style, dives fully clothed into a ship s swimming pool, and also earns her place in history as one of her father s trusted advisers. Fotheringham s digitally rendered, retro-style illustrations are a superb match for the text." --Starred Review, School Library Journal, March 2008

"Theodore Roosevelt s irrepressible oldest child receives an appropriately vivacious appreciation in this superb picture book.... Kerley s precise text presents readers with a devilishly smart, strong-willed girl who was determined to live life on her own terms and largely succeeded." --Starred Review, Kirkus, February 1, 2008

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fun for kids and adults5
If only they had books like this when I was young...I may have enjoyed history. This is a great book...and a great subject. Alice is hilarious and independent...and the illustrations are as colorful and entertaining as her antics are. A great book for young girls...encourages independence, curiousity, humor, and adventure. Don't miss this one!

Nana chose a good book5
My granddaughters are 5 and 6 years old and they wanted it read several times. It was and is a big hit. Liz

Theodore Roosevelt's child Alice is always causing trouble in the White House as she seeks adventure5
Barbara Kerley's WHAT TO DO ABOUT ALICE? receives Edwin Fotheringham's fun and large drawings as it tells of Theodore Roosevelt's child Alice, who is always causing trouble in the White House as she seeks adventure. The biography celebrates an unusual American heroine and offers a fun look at behind-the-scenes Presidential life.