Thomas Jefferson 

A Picture Book Biography

Author: James Cross Giblin

Illustrator: Michael Dooling

Genre: Biography

Grade level: PreK-3

This book is a biography about Thomas Jefferson. It starts out talking about Thomas as a young boy going to school in Tuckahoe and how he did not want to go to school there anymore. He eventually goes to boarding school and then eventually college in Virginia. He marries Martha Wayles and has six children. It talks about how he wrote the Deceleration of Independence as governor of Virginia. He then becomes George Washington's secretary of state and then eventually becomes the President of the U.S. It talks about many other things that he did during his presidency until his eventual death. 

I would use this book in class when learning about Thomas Jefferson or about presidents. We could read this around presidents day and students could use this as a reference for their research. 

The illustrations were colorful and realistic. There were pictures on every page and the text were over the pictures.