Great read. I loved that it was consistent with the other book I read about John and Tom. The story is something that most students end up learning and needing to be familiar with, and this book is a fun way to introduce or elaborate on that! ( )

This story compared the lives of two of our founding fathers, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. As a child, John Adams didn't care much for school and enjoyed boxing. Thomas Jefferson on the other hand, loved to read and studied. In college, John was confident with his speeches and joined the debate team. Thomas was shyer and dreading speaking in front of crowds. John Adams liked farming and Thomas liked architecture. Even though they were very different men, they shared the same ideas about life and liberty and the future of the colonies. They were both some of the first men to sit in Congress and debate the future of our country. When the Declaration of Independence was being drafted, Thomas actually suggested John Adams write it, but John insisted Thomas Jefferson should write it because he was the better writer of the two. Using the Declaration of Independence, congress voted to separate from England and form their own country. And that wouldn't have been possible without two very different men coming together for the same cause. ( )

This is the story of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson and how these two very different people were able to unite america. Though I have had my fair share of history education I enjoyed the perspective this story was told in and it made the story of those rebels that declared independence from King George very personal and engaging. I also liked how the book used quotes from various sources and mixed them into the story naturally. ( )

Informative picture book history about Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. They were political opposites who had lives that strangely intertwined. Students might enjoy this portrayal of the two founding fathers in conjunction with other work during the 1770-1800s time period. ( )

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson are very different from each other, but they both cared about the American colonies and didn't like King George. Therefore, they worked together during the Continental Congress and found they "might accomplish more than by working alone." ( )