This book, written by Kathleen Krull and illustrated by Elizabeth Baddeley, is about Mary Todd, Abraham Lincoln's wife. As the author ends the book, "There was simply no one like Mary Lincoln". She was razor-sharp smart, well-spoken, confident, and vibrant. Losing her mother at an early age, then two of her sons, then her husband and then her third son, her life was very difficult. I thought it was interesting that she always knew that she was going to marry a president. She definitely pushes Abraham to achieve great success in politics, and had a lot of power over him until he actually became president and received his advisers. During the Civil War both North and South hated her -North because she was from the South (Kentucky) and South - because she was fighting against the Confederates. Historians speculate that she influenced her husband to end slavery, and I solute her for that. Great book I learned a lot from it! ( )

This is a story about the wife of President Abraham Lincoln. She was someone who had to have strength to support her husband at a time when women were not considered more than property. She proudly raised her family but suffered the worst pain a parent could face: the death of a child. In her case, the death of three children and the assassination of her husband, the sixteenth president, President Lincoln.

What I found interesting was that Mary was from the south: Lexington, Kentucky, and she was from a slave owning family. Yet her husband was involve in giving slaves their freedom. Or, the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. ( )