Wow. This book is about a real girl who lived with her family through the depression. They lived because the president started the New Deal and made sure that all families were fed. She was grateful for these programs and wanted to show her appreciation but was unsure what one little poor girl could do. But this girl with a carpenter. She worked at the feet of her father, and that, with practice, she could do something great. She built the president a clock. A wooden clock whose time is right only two times a day, but she labored, and she used what others might consider junk, the crates in which their food arrived, to build this clock. All to say thank you. This book was a fantastic look at the history of the US and how small things can last forever. The author does a fantastic job and so does the illustrator. At the very end of the book there are pictures of the real Clock, as well as scans of the real letter that was sent with the clock. This is one of those little, tiny bits of history that one is happier in life, knowing existed and that it happened. 

“The true story of a girl who, piece by piece, created a gift for a president.”

This story is SO cool!! 0.0 I have always loved stories of the Great Depression, and this one did not disappoint. I love books that tell microhistories.