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It's time to take the BORING out of learning about our country's presidents. We have created a lapbook that is specifically designed to go with wonderful and zany Caldecott Award picture book called So You Want to be President by Judith St. George. The basic theme is that anyone can be president! (Picture Book sold separately or can be found at most local libraries)

So order this lapbook and get your hands on a copy of So You Want to be President picture book and hear your children laugh with excitement over learning about our nation's greatest leaders.

This lapbook is 4 folders long!! The first 3 folders cover the picture book. The last folder has a picture of all 44 presidents and a place to write their name! How fun! See sample pages above.

What is So You Want to be President about? Tired of books about the presidency that present themselves as history books? Author Judith St. George--along with Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator David Small--has created a book about the presidency that's serious fun. The basic theme is that anyone can be president: a fat man (William Howard Taft) or a tiny man (James Madison), a relative youngster (Teddy Roosevelt at 42) or oldster (Ronald Reagan at 69). Presidential hobbies, sports, virtues, and vices all get a tongue-in-cheek airing, perfectly matched by Small's political-cartoon style of caricature painting. It's fun, but the underlying purpose is clearly serious: to remind kids that the American presidents have been a motley group of individuals, not a row of marble busts. Ironically, that message makes the presidency far more interesting (and appealing) than it seems in some of the more traditional books. There's a factual addendum at the back giving all the dates and names, with a one-line bio for each past-president. --Richard Farr