When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, eleven-year- old Dan French had no way to know that one day his tribute to the great president would transform a plot of Washington, DC marshland into America?s gathering place. He did not even know that a sculptor was something to be. He only knew that he liked making things with his hands. This is the story of a farmboy who became America?s foremost sculptor. After failing at academics, Dan idly carved a discarded turnip into a frog and discovered what he was meant to do. Sweeney?s swift prose and Fields?s evocative illustrations capture the single-minded determination with which Dan taught himself to sculpt and launched his career by creating the famous Minute-man Statue in his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts. | Monument Maker by Linda Booth Sweeney, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters