Help Find the Hat! Where's Your Hat, Abe Lincoln? by Misti Kenison

ABRAHAM LINCOLN CANNOT FIND HIS HAT.

Abe is known for his tall black hat. He is already tall, but perhaps he likes the way it makes him look even taller.

But there's another reason that not everyone knows. Abe likes to keep important papers inside his tall hat.

And today he has an important trip to make. He really needs to find that hat. Who can help? Perhaps General Ulysses S. Grant?

GRANT IS BUSY MEETING WITH ROBERT E. LEE.

Now that's an important meeting. Who else could help?

Clara Barton is taking care of soldiers wounded in the Civil War. Harriet Tubman is showing slaves the way to freedom. Thaddeus Stevens has a big speech to Congress on his schedule. Sojourner Truth is on a lecture tour. And President Lincoln's friend Frederick Douglass has a book to finish writing.

Who can help? William Seward joins Abe in looking everywhere in the White House. It's not in the East Room!

And then Abe looks in his office, and there is his hat, right where he left it! Where is Abe Lincoln going with his tall black hat and what will he be doing?

He is going to Pennsylvania, where he will take a single piece of paper out of that tall hat and read his speech.

LINCOLN GIVES THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS.

Misti Kenison's little board book, Where's Your Hat, Abe Lincoln? (Young Historians) (Sourcebooks/Jabberwocky, 2017) gives youngsters an introduction to some of the famous names of the Civil War period. Part of the Young Historians series, this book is perfect for early childhood classes's first experiences with Presidents' Day, concluding with a timeline of the period and thumbnail biographies of the famous people mentioned in the text.

Share this one with Joan Holub's board book about those February-born presidents, Abe Lincoln and George Washington, This Little President: A Presidential Primer.