2012 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards Announced

Awards Recognize Excellence in
Children's Literature

Last week The Horn Book’s editor in chief Roger Sutton and 2010 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award-winning author Rebecca Stead (When You Reach Me, Random House) announced the 2012 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winners. The following lists the three top winners, with book summaries as provided in the hbook.com article "2012 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children's Literature."

PICTURE BOOK AWARD WINNER

Extra Yarn

by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Jon Klassen (Balzer + Bray, a HarperCollins imprint)
When young Annabelle finds a small box containing a never-ending supply of yarn of every color, she does what any self-respecting knitter would do: she knits herself a sweater. Then she knits a sweater for her dog. She continues to knit colorful garments for everyone and everything in her snowy, sooty, colorless town—until an archduke gets greedy.

FICTION AWARD WINNER
No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller 

by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie (Carolrhoda Lab, an imprint of Lerner)
Lewis Michaux opened the National Memorial African Bookstore in Harlem at the end of the Great Depression with an inventory of five books and a strong faith that black people were hungry for knowledge. For the next thirty-five years, his store became a central gathering place for African American writers, artists, intellectuals, political figures and ordinary citizens. In a daring combination of fiction and nonfiction and word and image, thirty-six narrative voices are interwoven with articles from the New York Amsterdam News, excerpts from Michaux’s FBI file and family papers and photographs.

NONFICTION WINNER

Chuck Close: Face Book

written and illustrated by Chuck Close (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
Chuck Close’s art is easy to describe and especially attractive to children because he creates only portraits—in almost every possible medium with an intriguing trompe l’oeil effect. This book explores how his life story and so-called disabilities relate directly to his style. In this Q&A–style narrative, Close himself answers with a clear voice without a hint of famous-artist self-aggrandizement or angst.

To read even more about the winners and the honor books, click here.

Congratulations to this year's winners!

Reading Rockets Launches New Summer Reading Website

Start with a Book and
Launch a Young Reader this Summer!

For more than a decade, Reading Rockets, the award-winning national multimedia literacy initiative from WETA, has provided parents and educators with information and free resources on how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and how caring adults can help. This summer, Reading Rockets introduces Start with a Book, a companion website that uses books as a launching pad for exploration, conversation, and real world learning adventures.

To ward off the learning loss that many children experience over the summer, Start with a Book offers adults engaging, research-based ideas for getting kids into books all summer and beyond. The free resources from Start with a Book build on what young children already like—dinosaurs, building, animals, sports, superheroes and music—so that parents, camp counselors, and others can have fun and interact meaningfully with children while helping to strengthen their reading skills.

Grown-ups who visit the Start with a Book website will find:

• Twenty-four kid-friendly themes featuring specific ideas for using books and related downloadable activities to build closer relationships with children and to get them thinking, talking, creating and exploring.
• Practical suggestions for using reading time to build a child’s reading fluency—the ability to read a book or other text correctly, quickly, and with expression—with an opportunity to measure progress over the course of the summer.
• Tips for parents in English, Spanish, and other languages to support English language learners. For those who sign up, reading tips in English or Spanish get delivered as text messages, 3-4 times each week.

While designed with families in mind, Start with a Book also has a place in libraries and summer camps. Local organizations working with children in grade kindergarten through third grade are encouraged to take advantage of these free resources and adapt activities to group use.

If you’re a parent, here’s how to get started with Start with a Book:

• “What does my child love to see, explore, and learn about?” With this question in mind, visit www.startwithabook.org.  If you have a young detective, explorer, artist, athlete or superhero at home or a child fascinated by dinosaurs, planes, bugs, birds, building, animals, the moon and stars, tall tales, music, money, nature, water, or thunder and lightning, you’ll find a summer theme that matches his curiosities and interests.

•  When you’ve selected your theme, you’ll be directed to great fiction and nonfiction titles about your theme, hands-on activities that support reading, writing, and critical thinking skills, and links to other great websites and apps with related content. Decide which activities you’d like to try and make sure you have the materials you need on hand.

• Print a book list and head to the library to pick up recommended titles. Bring your child along and sign up for your library’s summer reading program. If you are visiting a DC public library, ask the children’s librarian for your Start with a Book bookmark.

• Before you start reading together, check back in with the website for tips on reading aloud, including dialogic reading techniques, comprehension strategies, and fluency.

• Start reading! When you know you’ll have at least 20 minutes, grab your child and a book, and dive right in. Talk about the cover of the book with your child. Can he guess what it is about? Have they ever read a book by the same author or about the same topic? Read the book to your child. Take time to ask and answer questions, explore the pictures, and wonder together what will happen next.

• As you are reading, or afterward, talk with your child about characters or facts you find interesting or questions you have. Keep the conversation going as you begin one of the activities with hands-on learning or make-believe fun. Exploring new ideas alongside you lets your child see you learning—and reading—too, and gives your child personal experiences to support his growing knowledge.

• Make plans to extend the learning and give your child a real world connection to the things you read together. Whether it is an unhurried trip to grocery store to explore unusual fruits and vegetables, an evening stroll to watch the night sky or a visit to a museum or zoo, activities that get you out and about with your child help build important literacy skills.

• Choose more themes and more books for an entire summer’s worth of discovery!

    The Start with a Book project is funded by the Park Foundation.

Summer Reading Fun!

Help Your Kids Start a Summer Book Club

You can help your kids prevent the summer learning slide by encouraging them to start their own book club this summer!  

Ask your kids to invite a few of their friends to participate. Kids can start by having the first "meeting" to talk about one or two books they would like to read together. You could host the first meeting in your home or backyard, or you could invite the kids to meet at your local library. Let the kids talk about their favorite books and authors and make their own suggestions! If they need help coming up with ideas, you can enlist the aid of your local librarian. You and your kids might also want to browse the themed booklists that are listed below. 

Once the first book is selected, kids and their families can check out copies of the book from their local library. If your library does not have enough copies, ask the librarian to help you order additional copies from another branch. Encourage the kids to figure out a good time to meet once or twice a week and chat about the book. Let your kids make the plans for their book club, but feel feel to provide snacks and encouragement to keep them reading!

Themed Booklists Appeal to Kids' Interests
Check out the following themed reading resources offered by the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance and other authoritative literacy and literature organizations:

American Heroes Series I: Folklore Legends

American Heroes Series II: Historic and Cultural Heroes in Bibliographies for Young People

Great Books for Boys

Dog Day Reading

Home Run Reading: Baseball and Books for Kids

Discovering Fantasy Beyond Harry Potter

The Horn Book's Summer Reading Lists
Reading Rockets Summer Reading Lists

Ad.Lit.org's Reading Lists for Teens

 

A Perfect Kids' Book Club Selection!

A perfect book with massive appeal to kids is the episodic story game The Exquisite Corpse Adventure.  

 

The Exquisite Corpse Adventure is a progressive story just like the one many families play on road trips, at camps, at parties, at home when there is a power outage. It is a game where one person begins a story, stops at a cliffhanging moment, and the next person picks it up, continuing on until everyone in the group has the opportunity to contribute. And just like in those games, in The Exquisite Corpse, characters spontaneously erupt out of our authors’ imaginations; plot lines tumble forth, some realized, some lost; and we are often poised at the edge of a cliff with no logical solution in sight! 

The Exquisite Corpse Adventure appeals to a wide range of kids because it was created by some of their very favorite authors and illustrators: M.T. Anderson, Natalie Babbitt, Calef Brown, Susan Cooper, Kate DiCamillo, Timothy Basil Ering, Jack Gantos, Nikki Grimes, Shannon Hale, Lemony Snicket, Steven Kellogg, Gregory Maguire, Megan McDonald, Patricia and Fredrick McKissack, Linda Sue Park, Katherine Paterson, James Ransome, Jon Scieszka, and Chris Van Dusen.

To help kids engage in The Exquisite Corpse Adventure, be sure to check out the coordinating educational support materials in the NCBLA’s Exquisite Corpse Adventure Education Resource Center. Overflowing with supplemental articles, activities, reading lists, art activities, discussion questions, and more, the Education Resource Center is designed for moms and dads, teachers and librarians, grandparents and guardians—all adults who live and work with young people and have a vested interest in helping kids read more, write better, and create stories and art that expand all of our universes.

The Exquisite Corpse Adventure is available in both paperback and hardcover. It is also available on audio. Ask for it at your local library of bookstore!

To buy The Exquisite Corpse Adventure from the bookseller of your choice, click here.

Children's Book Festival to be Held at Eric Carle Museum

2012 Children's Book Festival
Themed Baseball Bonanza!

Festival Scheduled for Saturday, June 9

Painting from "We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro
League Baseball" by Kadir Nelson.

Join a host of authors and artists who have created some of your favorite baseball picture books for the 7th annual Children’s Book Festival at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, in conjunction with the exhibition We Are The Ship: The History of Negro League Baseball, original paintings by award-winning artist Kadir Nelson.

The Museum will host members of the Negro League Baseball Players Association for a special program in the Auditorium. In addition, this event for art-, book-, and baseball-lovers of all ages will feature art activities, artist and author presentations and demonstrations, and book signings. Enjoy ballpark fare or bring your own picnic to enjoy in our apple orchard.

The festival is scheduled for this Saturday, June 9, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The museum is located in Amherst, Massachusetts. Festival admission is free with paid museum admission. To see the complete list of events, click here.

Participating artists and presenters include: Martha Ackmann, Jim Burke, Diane de Groat, Doron "Duke" Goldman, Kevin Markey, Richard Michelson, Barry Moser, James Ransome, Lesa Cline-Ransome, Shelley Rotner, Matt Tavares, Audrey Vernick, Richard Walz, and Andrew Zimbalist.

Summer Adventures

Beyond the Book:
Take Your Kids on a Literary Field Trip!

Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House
in Concord, Massachusetts

Have you ever read a book and wondered what inspired the author to write it?  

Or perhaps you have contemplated how you can help your young people learn more about writers and their work by going beyond the pages of the book to a place you can visit and experience. 

Inspiring literary heritage sites await you from coast to coast, from the California Salinas Valley and home of John Steinbeck to the home and gardens of the Alcott family in Concord, Massachusetts where Louisa May Alcott wrote and set her beloved book Little Women. 

You can discover the literary heritage sites in your own state by contacting the Library of Congress Center for the Book office.  Each state office sponsors programs and printed literary history maps that show the locations of literary cultural sites and points of interest. Some state offices even provide interactive literary maps online. Visit the Center for the Book State Affiliates page for a complete list of state Center for the Book offices and direct links to their websites.

For a list of museums and galleries that offer exhibits of children’s book art, refer to the NCBLA article A Literacy Field Trip. For more tips about connecting books to places, read the Reading Rockets article Day Trips for Book Lovers. 

Dig In! Growing Season Is Here and Learning Opportunities Abound!

Plant a Garden with Your Kids and
Reap the Rewards

Spring gardening continues across the country as early crops are harvested and summer crops and annual flowers are planted.

Copyright (c) 2008 by S. D. Schindler

Why not take some time in the early days of summer vacation to plan and plant a garden with your children? No matter how big--or small--the garden, you and your family can benefit not only from the garden's bounty but also from the experience itself. In the NCBLA article "Growing a Spring Garden: Cultivating Plants and Your Child's Literacy Skills," author and educator Mary Brigid Barrett explains the interdisciplinary opportunities inherent in gardening with your children.

Make Connections!

To get your kids excited about gardening, make connections with the gardening work of other kids, including the work of the First Family. You can learn more about the Obama's experiences in planting, harvesting, and eating healthy recipes made from the bounty of the White House kitchen garden by searching kitchen garden on WhiteHouse.gov. For information on taking students on a free tour of the White House kitchen garden, click here. To discover White House Executive Chef Cristeta Comerford's grilled garden pizza recipe, click here.  

 

Official White House Photo by Sonya N. Hebert, March 26, 2012

And to learn even more about the Obama's experiences in planting the White House kitchen garden, check out First Lady Michelle Obama's new book, American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America.

Dig into the Past!
Help young people make connections to the past in the article "White House Colonial Kitchen Gardens" by Stephanie Loer in the NCBLA's literature and art anthology Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out. S. D. Schindler's coordinating illustration of Thomas Jefferson enjoying the bounty of his own White House kitchen garden is featured above.

And be sure to check out the online article "A Taste of the Past: White House Kitchens, Menus, and Recipes" by Mary Brigid Barrett. This article is included in the educational companion website to Our White House and features a glimpse into the days before modern appliances eased the burdens of the White House cook. Also included in "A Taste of the Past" is President Dwight Eisenhower's not-to-be-missed recipe for Green Turtle Soup!

The National Children's
Book and Literacy Alliance's award-winning book Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out is filled with stunning art, poetry, stories, and personal accounts that celebrate our Presidents and First Ladies, and the history and culture of America! All proceeds go to help the NCBLA continue its work. Our White House is available in both hardcover and paperback from Candlewick Press. Learn more at OurWhiteHouse.org.

Ask for Our White House
at a library or bookstore near you! 

Attention Parents, Family Members, Teachers, Homeschoolers, Librarians, and Community Leaders!

NEW Presidential Campaign and Election Kit for Kids NOW AVAILABLE Free at OurWhiteHouse.org

Use This All-in-One Resource to Engage and Excite Kids in This Year's Presidential Election!

Just in time for summer learning! The National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance has created a free, online Presidential Campaign and Election Kit for all adults who live and work with young people to help engage and excite kids all across the country in this year's presidential election and to enrich kids' knowledge of all our presidents and our nation's history! 

The Our White House Presidential Campaign and Election Kit for Kids is available exclusively on OurWhiteHouse.org. Included in the Kit are the following resources:

• Exclusive articles regarding such topics as presidential job requirements, the history of presidential campaigns, and the evolution of voting rights. Be sure to check out "Persuading the People: Campaigning for President" by Geri Zabela Eddins, "The Second Shall Be First: The 1948 Presidential Election--Truman V. Dewey" by Renee Critcher Lyons, AND "From Peas to Paper to IPads: The Evolution of the Ballot in America" by Heather Lang.
  
• Activities to use with young people in the classroom or at home, including "Watch a Presidential Stump Speech...and Invite Kids to Write Their Own," "Separate Fact from Fiction: Analyze the Campaign Rhetoric," AND "Host Your Own Mock Election!"
  
•  Discussion questions you can share during class, around the dinner table, and at a Scout or club meeting.
  
• So much more!

Some of the ideas and activities provided in the Kit coordinate with the content and illustrations in the NCBLA's art and literature anthology Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out, but most of the activities can be used independently of the book. We invite you to print content from the Kit as needed or to browse the pages using your smart phone, tablet computer, or laptop while on the go.

Click here to check out the complete Our White House Presidential Campaign and Election Kit for Kids!

About Our White House and OurWhiteHouse.org

Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out was created by the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance as a collaborative effort by over one hundred award-winning authors and illustrators. Our White House overflows with fascinating essays, stories, letters, illustrations, comics, and more. 

The Our White House anthology is supported by a companion educational website, OurWhiteHouse.org, which expands the book content with additional stories and articles and also provides activities and discussion questions related to book topics. The Our White House Presidential Campaign and Election Kit for Kids is the most recent addition to this site, which has been named a Great Web Site for Kids by the American Library Association!

Both Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out and OurWhiteHouse.org are projects created by the NCBLA to not only promote literacy, but to also excite people of all ages about our nation’s rich history. Learn more about how parents, teachers, and librarians can inspire young people using the Our White House resources in the online article "For Educators: Using Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out and OurWhiteHouse.org in the Classroom."

 

Our White House is available
in both hardcover and paperback from Candlewick Press.
Ask for it at a library or bookstore near you!

About The National Children’s Book and Literacy Alliance
The NCBLA is a 501(c) (3) not-for-profit organization founded by award-winning young people’s authors and illustrators. Acting as an independent creative agent or in partnership with interested parties, the NCBLA develops original projects, programs, and educational outreach that advocate for and educate about literacy, literature, libraries, and the arts.

We believe that literacy is essential to the development of responsible citizens in a democracy. And we believe that citizens, both young and old, must have equal access to stimulating books and information sources that invite them to dream and give them the tools to achieve their dreams. As writers and illustrators, teachers and mentors, parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles—as citizens and neighbors—our ultimate question is always how can we best serve all of our nation’s children?

For more information about the NCBLA, please visit our website at www.thencbla.org.

Literary Field Trip!

Massachusetts Teenager Creates and Installs Public Art Exhibit Inspired by
the Poems of Emily Dickinson

Matthew Cavanaugh for The Boston Globe

Assembled at a Turner Falls church, the houses are now on museum land.

Poetry lovers, and particularly adoring readers of poet Emily Dickinson, should take note of Massachusetts student Peter Krasznekewicz's public art debut, "...a blend of installation art, literary analysis, and architecture," which is now on display on the Emily Dickinson Museum property in Amherst, Massachusetts. 

"Krasznekewicz’s “Little White House Project” is a collection of 34 houses, each about the size of a family sedan, displayed on the museum’s 3 acres and extending about 2 acres beyond to public and private properties. Each house is made from sustainably harvested wood and features a line from a Dickinson poem; a word or two is stenciled on each of its four outer walls and the roof panels. The shape of the house is a reflection of the traditional New England barns that dot the Western Massachusetts landscape, the region Dickinson was obsessed with and inspired by."

Learn more about this student's inspiring project in the Boston Globe article "Homing in on Dickinson's poems" by Globe correspondent Liza Weisstuch.

Save the Dates! National Book Festival to be Held Sept. 22-23

Twelfth Library of Congress
National Book Festival
to be Held on the National Mall
September 22-23

Award-Winning Artist Rafael López to Create Festival Poster

The 12th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival will be held on the National Mall between 9th and 14th Streets on Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012, from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and on Sunday, Sept. 23 from noon to 5:30 p.m., rain or shine. The event is free and open to the public. 

Creating the artwork for this year’s festival poster will be artist Rafael López, whose work summons imagery of Mexican street life, surrealism and myths.His illustrations for "Book Fiesta!" written by Pat Mora won the 2010 Pura Belpré Illustrator Award, which is conferred by the American Library Association to honor work that best portrays, affirms and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in children’s books. López also has won two Americas Awards, and in 2011 he created stamps for the U.S. Postal Service celebrating Latin music legends Celia Cruz, Carlos Gardel, Carmen Miranda, Tito Puente and Selena.

Additional festival-related events will take place in the days and weeks preceding the much-anticipated yearly festival, which celebrates the joys of books and reading. More information will be posted as planning for the festival continues at the festival’s website, LOC.GOV/bookfest.

"Last year’s Festival, our first offering two days of authors and reading-related festivities, was very well-received by the authors and the festival-goers," said Librarian of Congress James H. Billington. "There’s a great sense of excitement about putting hundreds of thousands of readers, young and old, in touch with more than 100 authors once again."

The 2012 Library of Congress National Book Festival will feature award-winning authors, poets and illustrators in several pavilions dedicated to categories of literature. Festival-goers can meet and hear firsthand from their favorite authors, get books signed, have photos taken with mascots and storybook characters and participate in a variety of learning activities. 

The Pavilion of the States will represent reading- and library-promotion programs and literary events in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. trusts and territories. 

The popular Let’s Read America Pavilion will offer reading activities that are fun for the whole family. 

The Library of Congress Pavilion will showcase the cultural treasures to be found in the Library’s vast online collections and offer information about popular Library programs.

There are also plans to bring back two popular features premiered at the 2011 Festival: the Family Storytelling Stage sponsored by Target, a pavilion offering fare for younger children including popular authors and musical acts, and two mini-pavilions on Sunday. This year the mini-pavilions will feature the genres Graphic Novels and Science Fiction & Fantasy. 

The 2012 Library of Congress National Book Festival is made possible through the support of David Rubenstein, co-chairman of the National Book Festival Board; Target, The Washington Post and many other generous supporters. 

The Library of Congress, the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution, is the world’s preeminent reservoir of knowledge, providing unparalleled collections and integrated resources to Congress and the American people. Many of the Library’s rich resources and treasures may be accessed through the Library’s website, LOC.GOV.

Attention Coaches, Youth Counselors, and Mentors!

YOU Can Help Connect Kids to Books!

In the article "Great Ideas Connecting Kids to Books" by Mary Brigid Barrett in the NCBLA's Mentor Handbook on thencbla.org, Barrett explains how all the adults in a young person's life--not just a child's parents and teachers, but his or her other family and community members--can make a huge impact on a child's life. All adults who live and work with children in even limited ways can encourage kids to turn off the TV and video games and engage in a good book!

Here is an excerpt:

Grandparents, uncles, aunts, friends, neighbors, coaches, scout and camp councilors, youth volunteers—all of you have far more influence on the kids in your life than you know. And you have enormous influence on the children and teens that have parents who, for whatever reason, are unable to fulfill their parental responsibilities. Your position is free of even ordinary parental/child/teen tension, and because of that, your leadership and friendship are hugely meaningful, especially to preteen and teens that are naturally looking beyond their own backyards for mentors. Don’t be afraid to exert your influence encouraging kids to read, to write, to stay in school and learn.
 

To read the entire article, click here.

The NCBLA website is overflowing with informative articles for adults and who live and work with young people. Whether you are a parent, teacher, grandparent, or coach, you will find something to help you encourage literacy and help your kids become lifelong readers! Be sure to check out:

*  Parent and Guardian Handbook

*  Teacher Handbook

*  Mentor Handbook

New Article Published on OurWhiteHouse.org

Share the History of the Voting Ballot with the Young People in Your Life

Exclusive New Article Now Available on OurWhiteHouse.org

OurWhiteHouse.org, the NCBLA's companion educational website to the art and literature anthology Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out, features a treasure trove of exclusive articles, discussion questions, activities, and other resources to help young people connect with American history. Both the Our White House website and book are perfect partners for helping you get kids engaged in this year's presidential election!

JUST ADDED to OurWhiteHouse.org is a new web exclusive "From Peas to Paper to IPads: The Evolution of the Ballot in America" by NCBLA volunteer writer Heather Lang.

 

Parents, teachers, and librarians--did you know that in America's earliest days voters sometimes cast their ballots using peas--or even bullets?!  Did you know that until the late nineteenth century voting was a public act because most Americans believed that private voting was cowardly?! You can read all about how the form of the ballot and the method used to cast a vote have evolved in Lang's exclusive article. We encourage you to share this article--and the accompanying discussion questions and activities--with all the young people in your life.

Here is an excerpt:

The Constitution left it up to each state to decide what voting mechanism it would use, but until the late nineteenth century almost all states had one thing in common: voting was a public act. Many people thought the idea of voting privately, like we do today, was disgraceful and cowardly. 

This early voting system was wrought with fraud and abuse. Politicians, thugs, and partisans intimidated voters at the polls. Tenant farmers opted to stay home rather than face their landlords while casting their votes. It was legal for politicians to bribe voters by handing out their party ticket with a coin. Ballots were stolen. Voters were mugged. Ballot boxes were stuffed or designed with hidden compartments so votes could be added without unlocking them. Not surprisingly there were sometimes more votes than voters. 

As our country evolved, so did our voting system.

To read the entire article detailing the history of the American ballot, click here. 

 

Heather Lang is the author of the just published nonfiction book Queen of the Track, illustrated by award-winning illustrator Floyd Cooper. Queen of the Track tells the inspiring story of Olympic athlete Alice Coachman. To learn more about Heather and her books, visit her website. 

Our White House is an outstanding collection of essays, personal accounts, historical fiction, and poetry that melds with an equally stunning array of original art to offer a look at America’s history through the prism of the White House. Starting with a 1792 call for designers and continuing through the present day, these highly engaging writings and illustrations, expressing varied viewpoints and interwoven with key historical events, are a vital resource for family and classroom sharing -- and a stirring reminder that the story of the White House is the story of every American.

To learn more about Our White House, click here.

For more articles and resources related to presidential elections, check out the OurWhiteHouse.org Civic Education page AND our other NEW exclusive "The Second Shall Be First: The 1948 Presidential Election--Truman V. Dewey" by Renee Critcher Lyons.

Our White House is available
in both hardcover and paperback.

Ask for Our White House at a library or bookstore near you!