One sad day, Mama and Daddy Bear say they are getting a divorce. Daddy won't live at home anymore. Dinah is scared and sad. She wonders if she'll ever see Daddy again.
Skinny as a beanpole and tall for his age, a young learns that he shares his birthday with Abraham Lincoln, and even has the same big hands and feet. But Lincoln also had a big heart and the great ability to keep a nation together. And what the boy learns as he studies Lincoln opens his mind to great possibilities for his own future.