While the black and white illustrations are charming and the text is easy to read for children ages eight and over, this book contains many common historical errors and inaccuracies. The most blatant and disappointing is the author's misspelling of Dolley's name, which was never spelled "Dolly" except by later biographers who goofed. Dolley always signed her given name with the "e" before the "y," and this is how it is listed in the Quaker records of her family. The biography itself is a shallow one that focuses on a few of the "big" events in Dolley's life without really illuminating her character or drawing on the plethora of first-person sources (like letters and diaries) easily available today. One of James Madison's well-remembered sayings about Montpelier being a "squirrel's jump from heaven" is misquoted and not attributed to Madison. It is unfortunate that with so many stellar biographies of Dolley Madison available for adults, one has yet to be written for children that does justice to the lively, smart and gracious first lady who won the hearts of all who met her and earned her the title "Queen Dolley."

This book is a disgrace. It's sad to see that any woman would stoop to such a low level as to publicly humiliate herself as well as a well-known author!

I understand that she had an affair with him, but that's it...AN AFFAIR! Get over it !!! It was an dumb-affair. I'm sure that Ms. St. James wasn't so young that she didn't realize what she was getting into!

I just think that it's sad and this book did nothing, but turn a memory of a romance (affair or not) into something that the public didn't need to know about!

Thanks...I'm done!

I was excited to find these tapes at my library and kept waiting for the "magical" love to reveal itself as it did in Waller's novel. Instead, I was told all sorts of "filler", such as what Jana St. James was wearing and what she ate each day. An unbelievable amount of extraneous material to blow smoke over her THIN story about an average affair initiated by a married man. One can only feel sorry for Waller's wife Georgia, learning what her husband was doing the night they gave birth to their daughter. Much wishful thinking on the part of St. James: I didn't see ANY parallels with Madison County, the novel, except that the characters had sex.

Certainly there are parallels to the love story in Bridges of Madison County, however this is a story of two young people who under different circumstances would likely have ended up together. There love seemed genuine but impossible. This is an easy read - and unlike the other reviewer, I do not judge Jana or Bob. As unfortunate as it sounds - affairs do happen.

Although the above item is listed as a paperback book, it is indeed a poster. The "Little Book Series" label is misleading. Do not order if you are expecting something to read.