Written by Wag Harrison,
President Millard Fillmore, your ghostly guide with impeccable timing and occasional self-awareness, invites you on a brand-new adventure. This time, we’re leaving the Executive Mansion behind and stepping through enchanted doorways to the homes of America’s most influential presidents. Meet leaders who steered the nation through depression and war, fought for civil rights, built highways, conserved wilderness, and preserved the Union itself. You’ll encounter soaring speeches, questionable decisions, moose encounters, taco offers, and more than a few awkward historical truths. In The Presidents Did What Now?, Wag Harrison blends laugh-out-loud dialogue with thoughtful history, helping young readers understand that leadership is messy, democracy is complicated, and progress often comes wrapped in imperfection. And as President Fillmore would remind you, your vote might just change the world.
Price range: $16.95 through $27.95
Wag Harrison is an award-winning writer and educator. Holding graduate degrees in both history and educational leadership, Wag spent nearly twenty years as a teacher and school administrator before settling in as a full-time writer. A lifelong lover of learning and of telling tales from the past, Wag is proud to call The President Did What? his flagship picture book. Wag lives in Bon Air, Virginia, with his wife and three children.
Format: Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN Paperback: 978-1-966369-64-6
ISBN Hardcover: 978-1-966369-65-3
Pages: 34
Release date: 11/17/2026
“Building upon his previous publications, Harrison again humorously employs presidential punchline Millard Fillmore to guide readers through the feats and follies of our nation’s chief executives. His style deftly demonstrates the more memorable personality traits of the presidents and emphasizes why both they and their actions should be studied by our nation’s youth as an introduction to history. Sometimes for better and sometimes for worse, these leaders helped shape the world we live in.”
—Kurt Deion, White House Historical Association Next-Gen Leader, and author of Presidential Grave Hunter: One Kid’s Quest to Visit the Tombs of Every President and Vice President
“Wag Harrison does it again with his insightful stories of men who hold such high esteem in our society, but about whom so many of us know so little. Talking with the ghosts of presidents past, Harrison educates his readers using humor, relationships, and historical context. He paints a picture of these figures to include their accomplishments and their flaws, so the reader can relate to these complex men of history.”
—Jessica Arnold, middle school social studies teacher and avid history nerd
Christina Rodriguez-Unalt, or “C. Rod. Unalt,” is an award-winning illustrator who primarily works with acrylic and colored pencil but starts her drawings on an iPad. Christina holds an MFA in illustration and currently serves as the head of a BFA illustration program in New Jersey. When she’s not illustrating, writing, or professor-ing, you can find her snuggled up on the couch with her family, and on movie night playing referee to her kids over the last kernel of popcorn.
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