Named to the Bank Street College Best Children's Books of the Year for 2020
20th Annual Massachusetts Book Awards "Must Reads" A Must-Read Picture Book
CYBILS Award short list
When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, fifteen-year-old Dan French had no way to know that one day his tribute to the great president would transform a plot of Washington, DC marshland into America's gathering place. He did not even know that a sculptor was something to be. He only knew that he liked making things with his hands.