I LOVE reading! I like to read a lot of fiction but I chose to read this biography on Eleanor Roosevelt because I had heard a little bit about her work and her legacy. I was eager to read this book after I had a good experience with a school book I had read on Betsy Ross.
This book on Eleanor Roosevelt is by Ann Weil and is part of the Childhood of Famous Americans series.
It starts when she is a young child and follows her through her life, highlighting the important parts.
Eleanor hates it when she must go to a French boarding school. How could she like it when all the other little girls were making fun of her French? But when she returns to the United States and her mother opens a school on the 3rd floor of their home Eleanor learns to like school. Eleanor loves visiting her cousins and Uncle Teddy Roosevelt but her strict grandmother only lets her visit them twice a year! Her grandmother doesn’t want her “getting mixed up in all those Roosevelts.” Eleanor’s aunts force her to go to parties with them. At first, she resisted and didn’t really want to be there. By the end of the party though, she didn’t want to leave!
When Eleanor’s husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt, gets elected president she is nervous and excited. The president and Eleanor tried to help in any way possible seeing how people lived and how people ate. Were they getting enough? When Franklin D. Roosevelt came down with polio he told his wife, “You have to be my eyes and ears now.”
What did the president mean when he said that? Is Uncle Teddy who you think he is? Why didn’t Eleanor want to leave the party? Find out all this and more in the book. Which you can purchase here.
