John Adams: Young Revolutionary (Childhood of Famous Americans)

This was bought to help a 10 year old with her school history project on this Founding father.

This is without doubt the best juvenile biography of President John Adams ever written. The author writes Adam’s biography like a great entertaining story. We see young John Adams grow up in a world, time, and events very different than our own. But we see how that world, time, and events made him the man he became. And we see how that man that John Adams became changed our world we live in today. This is a great book for young people to read and families should read together.

My nine year old daughter became very interested in John Adams after studying the revolution in school and watching the film "1776". While there are plenty of excellent adult biographies of Adams, including the excellent one by David McCullough, they are too long and too adult for young children.This book is very well written from a young person's point of view, showing how John felt growing up on the farm, entering Harvard, then law, then finally politics and the presidency. When I first started reading the book and looking at the illustrations, it seemed somewhat old fashioned, but the quality of the words and stories quickly won me over. My daughter loved it, and the companion volume on Abigail Adams.Highly recommended

Very nice book for learning American history legend

Great book!Easy to read, informative. Makes you feel as if you know John Adams.What a great man!

This is a great series!

Just an outstanding history for children to dig into. We have a 7 and a 9 year old that love these series.

I love the Childhood of Famous Americans series, and have read MANY of them to my boys (who are currently 11 and 6). They are normally incredibly engaging books, even though they are written by many different authors.While I greatly enjoyed learning the history here (and, as one reviewer stated, this might be the best juvenile biography on John Adams ever written), it was at a much higher reading level than other books in this series. There was a lot less dialogue (and the existing dialogue was often direct quotes or quotes from letters). The writing style was far more complex, and the vocabulary much more complicated.The other books in this series read more like historical fiction novels. Are they accurate? Is the dialogue true? Probably not. Are things embellished? Probably. But it holds the children's attention (especially as a read-aloud) in a way that they learn an overview about the "famous American" in a fun way. This read much more like a non-fiction biography, especially the final chapters (which went into ridiculous detail about the French Revolution and post-revolutionary war politics).While I think this is probably one of the most *accurate* books we've ever read in the Childhood of Famous American series, it was also one of the most tedious. My kids couldn't wait to be done with it.