Thomas Jefferson Builds a Library E ERSID I cannot live without books Thomas Jefferson 1815 Plan BARB ROSENSTOCK Illustrated by JOHN O'BRIEN CALKINS CREEK AN IMPRINT OF BOYDS MILLS & KANE New York
For my sister Diane the librarian -BR Jefferson was born April 13 1743 on the Shadwell plantation into a family of slave owning planters in Virginia For my daughter Tess -JO'B
Thomas Jefferson learned to read And then he never stopped He sat and he read He walked and he read And lying in bed instead of sleeping he read Books books books Stories and geographies Poems prayers and plays Tom gobbled books the way a starving man eats Before he turned six people said he'd read every book in his father's library
