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Text copyright 1989 by David A. Adler
Illustrations copyright 1989 by John C. and Alexandra Wallner
All rights reserved
Printed and bound in September 2010 at Worzalla, Stevens Point, WI, U.S.A.

L IBRARY OF C ONGRESS
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Adler, David A.
A picture book of George Washington/written by David A. Adler:
illustrated by John and Alexandra Wallner. 1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: A brief account of the life of the Father of Our
Country.
ISBN 0-8234-0732-2

1. Washington, George, 1732-1799Juvenile literature.
2. PresidentsUnited StatesBiographyJuvenile literature.
[1. Washington, George, 1732-1799. 2. Presidents.] I. Wallner,
John C., ill. II. Wallner, Alexandra, ill. III. Title.
E312.66.A36 1989
973.41 0924dc19
[B]
[92] 88-16384 CIP AC

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ISBN-13: 978-0-8234-0732-3 (hardcover) ISBN-10: 0-8234-0732-2 (hardcover)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8234-0800-9 (pbk.) ISBN-10: 0-8234-0800-0 (pbk.)

HOLIDAY HOUSE is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

For Rene, with love.

D.A.A.

Thank you, Mr. Washington!

A.W. and J.W.

G EORGE W ASHINGTON was born on February 22, 1732 in a simple Virginia farmhouse. At that time Virginia was an English colony.

Young George liked to fish and go boating. He watched ships that sailed past on the nearby river. But most of all he liked to ride his horse.

George learned to read and write in school. He prac-ticed his handwriting by copying lists of rules such as Keep your fingers clean and Think before you speak. But his favorite subject was arithmetic.

When George was eleven his father died. George helped his mother run their farm and watch his younger sister and brothers.

One day, George found some surveying tools that had belonged to his father. He used them to measure and map a turnip field and a pine forest. He liked surveying.

At sixteen George was very tall and looked much older. He was given a job surveying land in the Virginia wilderness.

In 1753, when George Washington was twenty- one, he joined the Virginia army. He rode to the Ohio Valley to warn the French to get off English land.

In 1754 the French and Indian War began. George Washington fought on the side of England. He led Vir-ginia soldiers against the French. George was known as a brave and good leader throughout the thirteen Ameri-can colonies.

When George was twenty- six he fell in love with Martha Custis. She was a wealthy widow with two chil-dren. They married and moved to Mount Vernon, the Virginia home and farm which once belonged to Georges brother.

The English won their long war against the French. King George III of England wanted the American colo-nies to help pay the cost of the war, so he taxed them.

American colonists refused to pay the taxes. In Bos-ton, colonists dumped tea into the harbor rather than pay the tax on it.

In April, 1775 fighting between England and her American colonies began near Boston, at Lexington and at Concord, Massachusetts. One month later leaders of the thirteen colonies met in Philadelphia. George Wash-ington was chosen to lead the Continental Army.

Often there were not enough uniforms, food, blankets and guns for George Washingtons soldiers.

The war lasted eight years. George Washington and the Continental Army fought bravely. In 1783, when the American colonies won the war, George Washington was a hero.

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