This is the real story of Franklin D. Roosevelt's boyhood.

Here is young Franklin Roosevelt building a raft with Edmund's help, taking care of his pony, starting his stamp collection, reading his favorite books—always about ships and sailing men, studying, playing, working, traveling, going away to school.

In this real picture of Franklin Roosevelt's boyhood we see an eager, energetic youngster, curious about everything and everybody.  We see him at four, walking in the rose garden at Hyde Park with his parents, at five when he visited the White House and met President Cleveland, at every age until he went to college. We read some of his earliest compositions and letters. We see him in trouble for drawing cartoons of the Kaiser when he went to school for a while in Germany.

There is no stopping place in this book. Every page is full of the personality of a friendly, likeable boy who grew up to be one of the world's great leaders and best-loved men. A summary of Franklin Roosevelt's adult life is given in the last chapters, but the memorable thing about this book is the revealing picture it gives us of his happy, active boyhood.

From the book