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Playful political poems about the penchants and peccadilloes of the presidents!
Sure, William Taft got stuck in his tub, but did you know that John Quincy Adams used to skinny-dip in the Potomac? Herbert Hoover spoke Chinese with his wife, and Gerald Ford had his name changed from Leslie Lynch King. It’s true! In The President’s Stuck in the Bathtub, the lives of the presidents are served up as fact-filled and fanciful poems that will make you laugh, cringe, and gasp with amazement at the colorful cast of men and women who have lived in the White House. With footnotes relating the facts behind the inspiration for each poem, and a section called “Presidential Notes and Quotes” in the back, this is one hilarious history lesson that kids will elect to read over and over again!
- Sales Rank: #711280 in Books
- Brand: Clarion Books
- Published on: 2012-02-08
- Released on: 2012-02-08
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 11.00" h x .40" w x 10.00" l, 1.30 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 64 pages
From Booklist
Katz’s nod to presidential foibles arrives just in time for Presidents’ Day and the upcoming election cycle. In humorous yet informative rhymes, she explains that Washington never slept in the White House, John Quincy Adams often skinny-dipped in the Potomac, Herbert Hoover and his wife avoided eavesdroppers by conversing in Chinese, and William Howard Taft (at 350 pounds) required a special bathtub. Although admittedly trivial, these sorts of details are just the kind to pique young readers’ interests. The poems exhibit wide diversity (concrete, alliterative, free verse, quatrains), and each is accompanied by a footnote explaining the verse’s context and a cartoon-style illustration. Neubecker’s artwork, rendered in India ink with digital color, is full of interesting details; the title spread, for example, features an enormous, hairy Taft being extricated by four determined aides. Appended with a list of presidential notes and quotes, this is sure to be popular; pair with Kathleen Krull’s Lives of the Presidents (1998) or Judith St. George’s So You Want to Be President? (2000). Grades 2-5. --Kay Weisman
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"Humorous yet informative. . . . These sorts of details are just the kind to pique young readers’ interests. . . . Sure to be popular."—Booklist
"Katz takes playful swings at U.S. presidents in poems as funny as they are informative...an unexpected and diverting look at presidents past and present."--Publishers Weekly"In forty-three poems, Katz gives each of our U.S. presidents their due."--Horn Book, starred review
About the Author
Susan Katz discovered, while working on this book, that not all American presidents were very funny people, and she found herself doing more research for this one project than for all her other books put together.� Luckily this effort was rewarded with a fresh respect for the basic humanity of all our presidents and a new tendency to smile while voting.
������� Susan's other Clarion book, Oh, Theodore! Guinea Pig Poems, was an Oprah pick, a Texas 2 X 2 Award winner, a selection of the New York Public Library's 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing, and the winner of the 2010 Utah Children's Poetry Book Beehive Award.�She lives in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, with her husband, David, and a cat assistant, Harvey, who closely supervises her writing from the vantage point of her lap.�She can be found online in the Authors section of http:\\usawrites4kids.drury.edu/.
Robert Neubecker's first book for children, Wow!�City! won an ALA Notable Book award for 2005. A growing list of books have followed, including Beasty Bath, Wow!�America!, Wow!�School!, and Courage of the Blue Boy.�He has�illustrated many books by other authors, including�Monsters on Machines�by Deb Lund and�I Got Two Dogs with John Lithgow.�His new book, Sophie Peterman Tells the Truth, has already�received three starred reviews.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
My grandchildren love it!!
By Liamoondancer
Absolutely delightful and factual silliness! A book like this takes the "boring" out of learning about the Presidents! We no longer see Presidents as stuffy , boring old men! There were gales of laughter as I read even the first few poems to them! I must admit I also had quite a few chuckles!
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Presidential, that's what you are.
By E. R. Bird
Funny what kids pick up. When I was a tot of four I had a little electronic game that came with its own book. You'd turn the pages and press the button that corresponded to the correct trivia question. In this way I learned that Mozart wrote his first piece of music when he was five (I figured I had some leeway because of this), that Marie Antoinette had her head cut off, and that President Taft got stuck in his bathtub because he was so fat. That's the kind of presidential wisdom a kid's gonna carry with them the rest of their life. It's also how I learned that teaching kids about famous people at a young age actually will stick with them into adulthood if the medium is interesting enough. Poetry would not be my first method of instilling memories, but in "The President's Stuck in the Bathtub!: Poems About the Presidents" poet Susan Katz does a darn good job locating fun facts about even the dullest leaders. They may not have been equal in stature but at least in this book each one has his say, whether it's escaping a vicious rabbit or seeing the occasional ghost.
They've been dull and scintillating. Clever and thick. Remarkably tall and surprisingly short. And what's with all the parrots as pets? With great dexterity and even greater patience Susan Katz culls, entices, and sometimes even forces interesting facts out of each and every one of our presidents. That done, she turns those traits or events into poems, being sure to include fun additional facts at the bottom of each page. The result is that kids get to meet "Elevator Operator" John F. Kennedy, the "Funny-Looking" James Buchanan, and even "Vegetating" George H.W. Bush. Accompanied by work by illustrator Robert Neubecker, the book is a ribald look at our nation's leaders. Backmatter includes dates, quotes, nicknames, and "firsts" for each man.
As it says on the bookflap, "Susan Katz discovered while working on this book that not all American presidents were very funny people, and she found herself doing more research for this one project than for all her other books put together." I'm not surprised to hear it since the sheer number of new facts here are astounding. She even seems to have made a conscious effort to avoid the obvious ones (George Washington's teeth, Lincoln's jokes, etc.). Of course, you can't help but wonder if Ms. Katz made too much work for herself when she included a note on what each president was the "first" to do, and didn't go with the obvious answers. George Washington? "First president pictured on a postage stamp." Abraham Lincoln? "First president born outside the boundaries of the thirteen original states (in Kentucky)." No mean feat.
In one of the reviews I read the reviewer complained that Katz brings up facts about the presidents that aren't particularly interesting (Millard Fillmore was boring, James Madison was short, John Adams rotund, etc.). Seems to me that isn't very fair consider how much fun their poems (and the accompanying illustrations) are in the end. Besides, I consider Millard Fillmore the letter X of the presidential world. You know how every time you get an alphabet book you flip to the letter X to figure out how the authors chose to handle that difficult letter? Well the same goes for Fillmore. Even William Henry Harrison's more interesting (as The Simpsons put it, "I died in thirty days!").
The poetry itself mostly worked. There are, however, a few times that it really rankled. I'm not a particularly creative person when it comes to scans and rhymes. I like poems to make sense to me as they ABABAB or AABBCCD. In this book you really have to go on a case-by-case basis with some of these poems. "Yankee Doodle Dandy" about William McKinley, for example, threw me for a serious loop. The rhyme scheme, such as it is, appears to be ABCCD EDFFG. When I write it out like that it makes a lot more sense. On the page, however, I was stumped by how to read it aloud, particularly when the last word of "dandy" didn't seem to rhyme with anything. Poems like these are rarities in a sea of verse that works. I just wished that they all flowed as nicely as poems like "The White House Gang" (about Teddy Roosevelt being a part of his son's rough and tumble crew) or "A Presidential Memo" about Nixon.
Robert Neubecker was an interesting fella to tap for this book. I know he's done a lot of different books over the years but my primary association with him is still "Wow! City!" and its spin-offs. Neubecker's job here is hardly easy anyway. First there's the issue of making the presidents recognizable (done well enough, though caricaturist he will never hope to be). Then there's the issue of throwing more than one race into the images. Whenever we talk about the presidents we have to wait an awfully long time before we can get to Barack. Neubecker slips in different ethnicities when he reasonably can. The fellow aghast at John Quincy Adams' skinny dipping. Folks in the angry mob of Whigs (not so sure about that one circa 1841, but all right). The trumpeter playing "Hail to the Chief" to Chester A. Arthur. You don't necessarily believe that they were there all the time (and we could debate if it's historically misleading to say that they were), but at least Neubecker's making an effort. That's something.
As for the art itself, Neubecker has a good eye for what the most interesting thing to highlight in a given poem might be. Often he has to get a little creative. Grover Cleveland was the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms? Have him shaking hands with himself. President Eisenhower was only one of seven brothers all known as "Ike"? Show a picture of seven identical boys, all different ages, all with the same face. Sometimes the images don't make reference to the poems but to the small notes that come afterwards. For example, the image that accompanies the Rutherford B. Hayes poem "The President's on the Phone" shows Rutherford reacting to a high C described in the note as sung by one of his friends and that shattered the telephone's sounding board. Hey, man. Making this kind of stuff interesting about dudes who are seriously dull is no easy matter.
The closest approximation this book has to any other in your average everyday children's room is that classic Caldecott winner So You Want to be President? by Judith St. George. Like this book, that one identified various presidents and highlighted some quirks. Katz eschews the known stories as well as the scandals and controversies that dogged many of the men in here. In the process, she grants some of these fellows a posthumous present: something to remember them by. Not the big things, but the little ones. The details and funny matters that made them human beings. Because as far as I can tell, the best way to get a kid interested in something is to point out something weird about it. After that, it may not be smooth sailing, but at least they'll have something to remember President Taft for (besides the Judiciary Act of 1925, of course).
For ages 6-10.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Presidents are now entertaining for kids
By Weston & Melony
We are studying the US Presidents this year, and I found this book at the library. It is so cleverly written and entertainingly illustrated, that I must have a copy for our own to read over and over. There is a poem for each President; they are written in chronological order; they are all based on true stories, which are written in detail at the bottom of each poem. My sons (ages 10 and 8) giggled through the whole book!
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