About This Book

The History Maker Bios series offers introductions to the lives of historical figures found in the core of every history curriculum. Filled with true stories, historical photographs, artwork, and caricatures, each title in this lively series will entertain and inform readers. Although legend says that George Washington's teeth were made of wood, they were really made first of cow's teeth, and then from hippopotamus tusks. He became a soldier when he was just nineteen, and when America declared its independence many years later. Washington was chosen to lead the army, and eventually the country.