Living a Faith-Filled Life

If you click on the picture above, you'll see that this book is not currently available (as of 1/31/09.)  I'm sure Scholastic is making new copies as quickly as possible. What To Do About Alice just won the Sibert Honor. By the way, I checked out the winner of the Sibert Medal, We Are the Ship. The illustrations are AMAZING! Absolutely beautiful. Unfortunately, I was in the mood for a regular picture book, and it had lots and lots of words - so I just looked at the pictures.  Truly lazy on my part, but I was happy to just look at the pictures.  They are beautiful (which makes me wonder why it didn't win the Caldecott.)

Okay - back to Alice —

You'll notice the complete title is What To Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy!  That's a great summary.  The book's illustrations are very charmingly old-fashioned. Not in a dated way, but in a way that makes you feel the era. And Alice - oh my! - is very feisty! Some have said that although her father, the president, was beside himself, he was simply seeing another person who behaved like he did - adventurous, spirited, a non-conformist.

I think this book is a good way to introduce another era to young readers. It's also a great example of a not-so-boring biography.

Here's another review (in much more detail than I have here!) that also gives some classroom ideas. Enjoy.

Now, my quandary - Why is there a question mark in this title? Can someone with a better command of the English language explain how that is a question? It looks like a phrase to me, no end punctuation needed.