Another great story. My grandkids are loving this series and I agree with them. Informative, well written, easy to understand with lots of fun facts. I highly recommend it.

"This 'Who Was?' entry tackles Thomas Jefferson with refreshing honesty, balancing his towering achievements—like drafting the Declaration and the Louisiana Purchase—with his contradictions, particularly surrounding slavery.

It’s fun to learn about him a little more

I have just finished the book Who Was Thomas Jefferson by Dennis Brindell Fradin. I rated the book 3 stars because it was a pretty good book. The reason it didn´t get the other two stars is because it was to short i think they could have added more. The book was about Thomas Jefferson and there was not any one setting because it is based throught thomas Jefferson's life. To give a description of the book it is just Thomas Jefferson's life story.

"Who Was Thomas Jefferson?" by Dennis Brindell Fradin is a biography about the United States third president. Not only was he the third president he was also an architect and had many other jobs. Thomas Jefferson is also famous for writing the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence is what declared that the thirteen colonies were a free country and they weren't part of England anymore. He also designed the house that he lived in for most of his life.

Book Title: Who Was Thomas Jefferson?
Author: Dennis Brindell Fradin
Illustrator: John O'Brien
Reading Level: 5.3
Lextile: 770L
Fontas & Pinnell: O

Book Summary: This illustrated biography jumps into who Thomas Jefferson was from childhood to death. It provides engaging facts and accomplishments like Thomas Jefferson being the author of the Declaration of Independence and how he is a self taught architect who designed his own home.

Organization: The book organized in an understanding way as it follows the major life events of Thomas Jefferson. It hit the major points of each of his accomplishments without going into too much detail. The end of the book had a great timeline of Thomas Jefferson's life side by side with a timeline of world events happening during that time period. It was a great reference that created a better understanding of the accomplishments and the happenings of that time.

Presentation: The book featured detailed artwork with each page the portrayed a kingdom full of living numerals. The pictures were clearly numbers and the setting was clearly a kingdom. The pictures were fitting with the text that was being read and was able to show expression of the numeral characters. I like that it showed visuals of numbers and symbols that are used to actually do math.

Classroom Integration/Mini-Lessons/Content Connections:
This style of illustrated biography has many different prominent people featured in other similar books. I would look to create a US history lesson where students choose who to read about people of that time, such as Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Abe Lincoln. The students will read the book and present an overview of the main person they read about.

I think I am in love with this series of biographies. I run a homeschoolers' group at the library, and I read this in preparation for our session on Thomas Jefferson's birthday. I was so impressed with the way this book presented Jefferson's life. Instead of making everything all sunshine and roses because it's a kids' book, the book covered all aspects of Jefferson's life, the positive AND the negative, in a fairly impartial way. It is also nicely illustrated, which should help younger readers, and there is a nice timeline in the back.

I kind of want to read this entire series for fun now.

This book talked about Thomas Jeffreson life and what he was like before becoming president. It was ok. It showed that he was shy. He was coxed into writing the Declaration of Independence. We learned about his wife and kids. I learned about some conflicts he had with Alexander Hamilton. I didn't really like this book. It did not go into detail about many things. Why did he have the conflicts with one of our founding fathers? What happened with them? You can read this book, but it will have a lot of unanswered questions.

This book wasn't horrible, but it wasn't one of the books that I would choose to read again. I chose this book because I needed another non-fiction book for my reading requirement. Thomas Jefferson had a pretty tough life. Just after his third child was born, his wife died, and guess what she told him. She told him never to remarry. Now you would think that if you were married and were dying you would want your husband to move on and find someone who makes them happy right? Not in this case. Jefferson didn't come out of his room for 3 weeks after that, but I don't blame him. This was my favorite part of the book; I don't really know why, but it was. I would recommend reading this book to people who like Thomas Jefferson and have read other who was books.

Had to read this for school.

thomas jeferson is good man. where is he now??? probs dead. my mom died last week. i wonder if they are playing tennis together. my name is jimmy. did tomas do any ting or no. i. ok. wanna see my impression of a dog RAHRHHRHARAHRHRHAHRAH. uh oh! underground railroad strikes again. bye bye.