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In A 'Dream,' Lincoln Checks In On State Of The Union

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Lane Smith, a Caldecott award-winning author and illustrator, has written a children's book inspired by Lincoln's dream life. In Abe Lincoln's Dream, a little girl on a tour of the White House meets the troubled ghost of the 16th president in the Lincoln bedroom -- and she sets out to help answer his questions about how America turned out.

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