02531cam a2200265 4500 1147829827 TxAuBib ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780062381071 0062381075 TxAuBib Krull, Kathleen, author. A kids' guide to America's first ladies / Kathleen Krull ; illustrated by Anna Divito. America's first ladies. First edition. New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2017. 238 pages, 10 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-240) and index. Must I always be first? Martha Washington -- Do NOT forget the ladies! Abigail Adams -- Presidents who (technically) had no first ladies and why -- Bubbly, bold, brave. Dolley Madison -- Illness, heroic journeys, and Texas. Elizabeth Monroe, Louisa Adams, Anna Harrison, and two very different Tylers -- Letitia Tyler and Julia Tyler -- Ambition versus invisibility. Sarah Polk, Margaret Taylor, Abigail Fillmore, and Jane Pierce -- Civil War breaks out. Mary Lincoln -- And now the ""New Woman Era"". Eliza Johnson, Julia Grant, Lucy Hayes and Lucretia Garfield -- The modern woman emerges. Frances Cleveland, Caroline Harrison, Ida McKinley, Edith Roosevelt, and Helen Taft -- The artist and the first woman prez. Ellen Wilson and Edith Wilson -- Flying first ladies. Florence Harding, Grace Coolidge, and Lou Hoover -- First lady of the world. Eleanor Roosevelt -- Pink and pretty. Bess Truman and Mamie Eisenhower -- One thousand days -- and beyond. Jacqueline Kennedy -- A millionaire, a Goodwill ambassador, and one who made a difference. Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon, and Betty Ford -- The steel magnolia, the iron butterfly and the enforcer. Rosalynn Carter, Nancy Reagan, and Barbara Bush -- Developing a thick skin. Hillary Clinton -- The bookworm. Laura Bush -- Serious role model. Michelle Obama -- Glamour to spare. Melania Trump -- Forty women who shaped America. Examines America's first ladies and how they helped advance women's rights, political causes and other important progressive changes. Presidents' spouses Political activity United States Juvenile literature. Presidents' spouses United States Biography Juvenile literature. Biographies. DiVito, Anna, illustrator.