Told with a sense of immediacy that helps kids relate to history, this brilliant full-color photo-essay takes readers on a journey over the back roads of Illinois, Kentucky, and Indiana. Through a unique combination of Bial's own contemporary photographs, informative text, and a variety of revealing quotes from Lincoln, readers are brought to the actual places where Lincoln lived and worked: the rough cabin in the woods where Lincoln was born, the elegant house he shared with Mary and their children, and his messy law office.