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What To Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy! | 
| Author: Barbara Kerley
Creator: Edwin Fotheringham
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 165662
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 48
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 12.1 x 8.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 0439922313
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.9092
EAN: 9780439922319
ASIN: 0439922313
Publication Date: March 1, 2008
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Product Description
Theodore Roosevelt had a small problem. Her name was Alice. Alice Lee Roosevelt was hungry to go places, meet people, do things. Father called it running riot. Alice called it eating up the world. Whether she was entertaining important White House visitors with her pet snake or traveling the globe, Alice bucked convention and turned every new experience into an adventure! Brimming with affection and wit, this spirited biography gives readers a peek family life inside the White House. Prose and pictures spring, gambol, and two-step across the pages to celebrate a maverick American heroine.
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 Chin up, everyone! October 9, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If Ms. Kerley chose to write about a spirited, happy child in the context of a political time, she succeeded in making it fun and funny, so I guess that's good. But boy, did she misrepresent Alice.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth was an unhappy person, with problems that would resonate with today's kids. A miserably "blended" family, a distant but overachieving father who never even mentioned her mother's name after her death--since it was also Alice, it was a constant source of pain--her perkiness is easily seen as acting out.
It's as if a book about the Titanic emphasized how much FUN it was to be on a GREAT BIG party boat, and how WONDERFUL it was that that sinking led to great changes in SAFETY procedures. It's not technically a lie that the Titanic had some fun times, but you're missing the point if that's what you emphasize.
It pains me to write this, since I am in favor of books that humanize long-gone historical figures for kids, and this book is a lot of fun. If it's fun you want, this is a good choice. It does seem to be that history can be fun and also be accurate, and that this could have been a better book than it is.
 Nana chose a good book July 29, 2008
My granddaughters are 5 and 6 years old and they wanted it read several times. It was and is a big hit. Liz
Theodore Roosevelt's child Alice is always causing trouble in the White House as she seeks adventure June 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Barbara Kerley's WHAT TO DO ABOUT ALICE? receives Edwin Fotheringham's fun and large drawings as it tells of Theodore Roosevelt's child Alice, who is always causing trouble in the White House as she seeks adventure. The biography celebrates an unusual American heroine and offers a fun look at behind-the-scenes Presidential life.
fun for kids and adults May 26, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If only they had books like this when I was young...I may have enjoyed history. This is a great book...and a great subject. Alice is hilarious and independent...and the illustrations are as colorful and entertaining as her antics are. A great book for young girls...encourages independence, curiousity, humor, and adventure. Don't miss this one!
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