About This Book

A Sibert Honor Book
An ALA Children's Notable Book

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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 at family life inside the White House. Prose and pictures spring, gambol, and two-step across the pages to celebrate a maverick American heroine.

* "Irrepressible Alice Roosevelt gets a treatment every bit as attractive and exuberant as she was." — Booklist, starred review

* "This sassy biography of Alice Roosevelt Longworth validates President Theodore Roosevelt’s famous quip about his oldest child: 'I can be president of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.' With a palette that emphasizes Alice Blue, her signature color, the illustrations often match Alice’s spirit with zigzag streaks, circular pieces of spot art, and slanting figures." — Horn Book, starred review

* "It’s hard to imagine a picture book biography that could better suit its subject than this high-energy volume serves young Alice Roosevelt. Kerley knows just how to introduce her to contemporary readers. Debut illustrator Fotheringham creates the perfect mood from the start: his stylish digital art sets a fast pace, making use of speed lines (rendered in dots, these earn their names) and multiple vignettes to evoke characters in perpetual motion." — Publishers Weekly, starred review

* "Kerley brings another historical figure to life. Kerley’s text gallops along with a vitality to match her subject’s antics...Fotheringham’s digitally rendered, retro-style illustrations are a superb match for the text. The energy in his pictures is palpable...This book provides a fascinating glimpse into both a bygone era and one of its more interesting denizens as well as a surefire antidote for any child who thinks that historical figures are boring." — School Library Journal, starred review

About the Authors or Illustrators

Barbara Kerley

Barbara Kerley is the author of Walt Whitman: Words for America, The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins and Greetings from Planet Earth

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Edwin Fotheringham

Edwin Fotheringham's award-winning illustrations have graced the pages of the The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, and many other publications. What to Do About Alice? is his first picture book

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