Sunday, January 18, 2015

George Washington's Rules to Live By by K.M. Kostyal illustrated by Fred Harper*

"National Geographic Kids"
"A Good Manners Guide from the Father Our Country"
Ms. Kostyal features some of George Washington's most interesting "rules".  Underneath each rule, she explains it so readers can relate it to modern day.  She also provides additional tidbits about the rule or George Washington and what life was like at the time in history.
At the end is a complete listing of all of his rules (110 rules!).
Text features: introduction, table of contents, headings, bold print, text size, index

1 comment:

  1. We have George Washington's Rules of Civility and it is so funny to read. It is amazing that he wrote it at such a young age. Can you imagine a young man writing such rules now?

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