Weeping Willows On the Lake

1. What to Do About Alice? A. BIBLIOGRAPHY Kerley, Barbara . 2009 . What to Do about Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy! . by Fotheringham , Edwin . New York : S cholastic Press . ISBN 0439922313 B. PLOT SUMMARY What to Do About Alice? is a picture book biography of Alice Roosevelt, the daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt. It opens describing some of her father's more famous adventures, such as his time spent herding cattle in the Badlands, to familiarize the reader with one of the most important figures in the book. This becomes the introduction to Alice as it shows that she is a much bigger sink of time and attention for Teddie Roosevelt than any of his famous exploits. Her story picks up as a young girl right after her mother's death and details her energetic activities through out her childhood, including the time that she and her siblings rode trays down the stairs of the White House. The book show