So You Want to Be President

Author: Judith St. George
Title: So You Want to Be President
Illustrator: David Small
Genre: Children's picture book
Subgenre: Historical fiction
Theme: Presidents
Primary and secondary character: presidents
Awards and date of publication: Won The Caldecott Medal and was published in 2000.
Publishing Company: Philomel Books
This book is a very great book and educates students about presidents, and what they have to do to become a president. The pros about being a presidents includes living in the White House with a swimming pool, bowling alley, and movie theater in their house. They do not have to eat vegetables or take out trash. The cons include presidents always have to be dressed up, and once William Howard Taft had a cabbage thrown at his head. If you want to become a president it will help if your name is James or if you were born in a log cabin (six presidents were named James, and eight presidents were born in a log cabin). To be a president size, age, or humor does not matter. However, to be a president it is a plus, to have presidents in your family tree. Although most presidents went to college nine did not (Washington, Jackson, Van Buren, Taylor, Fillmore, Lincoln, Johnson, Cleveland, Truman). If you want to be a president you might want to join the military or become vice president. However, most importantly if you want to be a president you must be honest!
This book is a very good book to have students read in correlation with talking about presidents. This will make the topic interesting, fun, and will definitely bring the reader into the subject.