Don't Know Much About the Presidents

Kenneth C. Davis
Collins (2009)
ISBN 9780061718236
Reviewed by Evan Weldon (age 7) for Reader Views (2/09)

“Don’t Know Much About the Presidents” by Kenneth C. Davis gives information about all 44 U.S. Presidents, including our new President Barrack Obama.  Some of the information is funny.  James Madison was about as tall as a pipsqueak.  He weighed less than a hundred pounds and was about the size of my eleven-year-old brother.  George Washington never had a toothache as president because he had only one real tooth.  There was plenty of serious information in the book, too, and there was a timeline of things that happened during each person’s presidency.

There are funny drawings and cartoons.  George Bush was a World War 2 fighter pilot and survived four plane crashes.  There is a funny drawing of a burning plane and George Bush as the pilot saying “Whoops. Again.”  There was also a very funny drawing of William Howard Taft, our fattest president, stuck in the bathtub! (He was 332 pounds!)

I would recommend “Don’t Know Much About the Presidents” by Kenneth C. Davis to people who want to learn more about the presidents and politics.  This is a 63-page book with lots of information.  It took about two hours to read the book out loud but it only seemed like five minutes because it was so good.  You’ll keep thinking about this book even after you finish reading it!

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