What To Do About Alice?
How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy!
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A Sibert Honor Book
* "Superb... a gleeful celebration." --
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 at family life inside the White House. Prose and pictures spring, gambol, and two-step across the pages to celebrate a maverick American heroine.
Praise For What To Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy!…
A Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book
A Sibert Honor Book
An ALA Notable Book
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"Reveals the essence of Alice in an upbeat account of her life... Alice as a young girl tumbling downstairs, galloping through parks, bike-riding and let loose in her father's library after refusing to attend private school... When the 17-year-old Alice moved into the White House after her father became president in 1901, she reveled in the high-voltage spotlight... "I give a good show," Alice proclaimed. That she did, as Kerley and Fotheringham demonstrate with verve." --
* "Theodore Roosevelt's irrepressible oldest child receives an appropriately vivacious appreciation in this superb picture book... Taking her thematic approach from Alice's own self-description, 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... The illustrator takes every opportunity to develop Alice's character further... It's a gleeful celebration of a fully, unapologetically led life." --
* "It's hard to imagine a picture book biography that could better suit its subject than this high-energy volume serves young Alice Roosevelt... Debut illustrator Fotheringham creates the perfect mood from the start... Kids will embrace a heroine who teaches her younger stepsiblings to sled down the White House stairs, entertains dignitaries with her pet snake and captivates a nation with pranks and high jinks." --
* "Kerley's text has the same rambunctious spirit as its subject, grabbing readers from the first line... The large format gives Fotheringham, in his debut, plenty of room for spectacular art." --
* "Kerley's text gallops along with a vitality to match her subject's antics.... Fascinating." --
* "What to do about Alice? Enjoy!" --
Starred Review, Kirkus, February 1, 2008
\u0022Theodore Roosevelt\u2019s irrepressible oldest child receives an appropriately vivacious appreciation in this superb picture book.... Kerley\u2019s precise text presents readers with a devilishly smart, strong-willed girl who was determined to live life on her own terms—and largely succeeded.\u0022
\u0022Theodore Roosevelt\u2019s irrepressible oldest child receives an appropriately vivacious appreciation in this superb picture book.... Kerley\u2019s precise text presents readers with a devilishly smart, strong-willed girl who was determined to live life on her own terms—and largely succeeded.\u0022
Starred Review, School Library Journal, March 2008
\u0022Kerley\u2019s text gallops along with a vitality to match her subject\u2019s 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\u2019s swimming pool, and also earns her place in history as one of her father\u2019s trusted advisers. Fotheringham\u2019s digitally rendered, retro-style illustrations are a superb match for the text.\u0022
\u0022Kerley\u2019s text gallops along with a vitality to match her subject\u2019s 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\u2019s swimming pool, and also earns her place in history as one of her father\u2019s trusted advisers. Fotheringham\u2019s digitally rendered, retro-style illustrations are a superb match for the text.\u0022
Scholastic Press, 9780439922319, 48pp.
Publication Date: March 1, 2008
About the Author
Barbara Kerley is a two-time Sibert Honoree and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honoree whose award-winning biographies include
Edwin Fotheringham’s stylish, award-winning illustrations have graced the pages of
Edwin Fotheringham’s stylish, award-winning illustrations have graced the pages of