President Barack Obama

Children's Literature - Leila Toledo

Early readers will enjoy this book. The font is big, the text simple and there are only one or two sentences on each page. In addition, each page also has a photograph related to the content. There are a total of 353 words in the book, making it easy reading for a beginning reader. The book includes a timeline that covers the events of Barack Obamas's life. It begins with his childhood, and continues through his early education, college activities, election campaign and up to his election as the forty-fourth president of the United States. The end of the book includes a fact page about Barack Obama and a president page, which lists all forty-four American presidents alongside their terms of office. Additional resources are listed, including an Internet site, www.facthound.com, which is related to this book and researched by the staff of FactHound. Part of the "Pebble Plus" series. Reviewer: Leila Toledo