Synopses & Reviews
Dawn FitzGerald is a former teacher and the author of several books for children, including GETTING IN THE GAME (Roaring Brook) and JULIA BUTTERFLY HILL: SAVING THE REDWOODS (Millbrook). She lives in Pepper Pike, Ohio.
Synopsis
Vinnie Ream was a small girl with a giant gift for sculpture. Vinnie and Abraham tells the true story of Vinnie, the self-taught teenage sculptor who created the full-size statue of Abraham Lincoln that now stands in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol.
Synopsis
The amazing true story of the young woman who immortalized Lincoln's face in stone.
Vinnie Ream is a small girl with a giant gift for sculpture. She starts by playing in the Wisconsin clay, but when the Civil War breaks out, her family moves to Washington D.C., setting Vinnie on a whole new path: apprentice to a famous sculptor, depictor of Congressmen and politicians, eventual sculptor of the Lincoln bust. After Lincoln's assassination, she fights doubt and prejudice for the honor of sculpting the full-size statue of Lincoln that now stands in the Capitol rotunda.