Have You Heard About Lady Bird? Poems About Our First Ladies by Marilyn Singer

Have You Heard About Lady Bird? Poems About Our First Ladies by Marilyn Singer, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter. PICTURE BOOK. Disney, 2018. $18. 9781484726600

BUYING ADVISORY: EL - OPTIONAL

AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE

This is a collection of poems, one for each first lady in American history. The poems are mostly informational, a few whimsical, and each has an accompanying illustration. At the end of the book is a collection of biographical paragraphs on each lady.

The thing I dislike about this book is that each biography focuses on just one aspect of the woman’s life and often times these were a negative thing. I was eager to read the bios hoping they would add a fuller picture of the first lady, but they rarely did.  

Jen Wecker, HS English Teacher