TY - ADVS AU - Berlin,George AU - Griffin,Joe AU - Johns,Kurt AU - Porzel,R.J. AU - Sanders,Tessa AU - Stathakis,Kiki AU - Venezia,Mike ED - Getting to Know, Inc. TI - Abraham Lincoln: sixteenth president T2 - Getting to know the U.S. presidents SN - 0982880359 PY - 2011/// CY - [Chicago, Ill.] PB - Getting to Know, Inc. KW - Lincoln, Abraham, KW - Presidents KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Juvenile films KW - Animated films KW - lcgft KW - Biographical films KW - Children's films KW - Educational films KW - Nonfiction films KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired N1 - Based on the book "Getting to know the U.S. presidents : Abraham Lincoln" written and illustrated by Mike Venezia; Animation, George Berlin ; editor, RJ Porzel ; music, Eric Sproull; Voices, Kurt Johns, Tessa Sanders, George Berlin, Joe Griffin, Kiki Stathakis, RJ Porzel N2 - Uses animation and period prints and photos to guide viewers through a child-friendly look at the life and times of Abraham Lincoln beginning with his hardscrabble beginnings on a frontier farm; following him through various jobs as a flatboat pilot, a soldier, a surveyor, a postmaster, a general-store owner, and a self-taught lawyer; and ending with the story of how he became the sixteenth president of the United States and led the nation through a civil war that threatened to tear the Union in two ER -