This is a fine children’s biography. It gets the job done. It is massively wordy. It is way too long for no reason. There seems to be a lot more filler language than actual story about the senator. The illustrations are fine, nothing special. I do like to see that books are being written about current political figures, but I am irrationally, annoyed, because a book about a senator from Illinois, is written by an author from Texas, and illustrated by an artist from California. I don’t know if Tammy had any say in who did the writing or the illustrations but if she did, they should have been from Illinois.