In this creative Tour De Force, more than one hundred celebrated authors and illustrators have donated their prose, poetry, and art to help advance the cause of literacy for young people, and in particular, historical literacy. Conceived and collected by the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance and introduced by renowned historian David McCullough, this unprecedented anthology presents a dynamic view of more than two hundred years of American history -- as seen through the White House windows -- that will energize and inspire young readers on their journeys to becoming the civic leaders of the future.

Offering essays, short stories, illustrations, presidential letters and speeches, comics, personal reflections, and even a one-act teleplay, this treasury is a feast of genres and opinions (sometimes opposing) as well as an in-depth, well-researched resource for study and learning. Equally suited for sharing as a family or in a classroom, Our White House offers readers a vibrant way of looking at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue -- at the people who built it, lived in it, and have been touched by it -- and at the role we citizens have played in keeping it at the center of our astonishingly resilient and extraordinary democracy.

Author/Creator: National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance with an introduction by David McCullough

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Description: Hardcover, 9 1/4" x 10 1/8", 256 pages

ISBN: 978-0-7636-2067-7

Price: $29.99

Availability: Usually ships in 3-4 business days

Product #: 21106079