Awards

• Short-listed for Flicker Tale Children's Book Award (Early Grades Nonfiction) 2006
• Winner of Parents Choice Award (Fall) (1998-2007) (Silver) 2004

Overview

"Before Teddy Roosevelt became famous as a statesman, naturalist, colonel in the Spanish-American War, and twenty-sixth president of the United States, he was a young boy called Teedie who had wonderful adventures with his brother and sister and even started a museum in his attic. But he also struggled with terrible asthma. Overcoming his illness was the major battle of his young life . . . and his determination to make himself strong and healthy set the course for his amazing accomplishments to come. First in a planned series of picture storybooks about ""turning points"" in the lives of the young Presidents, this book is written by the in-comparable author of So You Want to Be President? and whimsically illustrated by Matthew Faulkner."

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9780399238888

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Praise for You're On Your Way, Teddy Roosevelt The book provides a salient introduction to the boy who would become a colorful president. A final note sketches Roosevelt's adult years. A solid choice for independent readers or for sharing aloud with children. --School Library Journal Faulkner captures Teedy's boundless energy and determination in detail-rich scenes... This makes a rousing tale of obstacles overcome. --Kirkus Reviews Praise forYou're On Your Way, Teddy Roosevelt The book provides a salient introduction to the boy who would become a colorful president. A final note sketches Roosevelt's adult years. A solid choice for independent readers or for sharing aloud with children. School Library Journal Faulkner captures Teedy's boundless energy and determination in detail-rich scenes... This makes a rousing tale of obstacles overcome. Kirkus Reviews

The author of So You Want to Be President? (2000) opens a series of closer looks at turning points in the lives of future Chief Executives with this lively and handsomely designed account of Teddy-or Teedy, as he was then known-Roosevelt's youth. She finds several watershed moments for puny, unathletic Teedy, from his discovery of the Great Outdoors, to a commitment to exercise inspired by this father's observation that you must make your body, and an encounter with bullies that impelled him to take up boxing. She also highlights his love of natural history, introduces his parents and siblings, and chronicles the Roosevelt clan's travels to Europe and Egypt. Faulkner captures Teedy's boundless energy and determination in detail-rich scenes of the lad with his close, plainly well-to-do family, surrounded by his collections of animal specimens, and demonstrating his hard-won athletic prowess to a crowd of admiring relatives. Closing with a quick look at Roosevelt's presidency and after, this makes a rousing tale of obstacles overcome. (afterword, bibliography) (Picture book/nonfiction. 8-10) (Kirkus Reviews)

Praise for You're On Your Way, Teddy Roosevelt The book provides a salient introduction to the boy who would become a colorful president. A final note sketches Roosevelt's adult years. A solid choice for independent readers or for sharing aloud with children. --School Library Journal Faulkner captures Teedy's boundless energy and determination in detail-rich scenes... This makes a rousing tale of obstacles overcome. --Kirkus Reviews

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Judith St. George lives in Connecticut.

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