Our White House
Subtitle: looking in, looking out
By: created by 108 renowned authors and illustrators and The National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance ; with an introduction by David McCullough.
Contributors: National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780763620677
Subjects: White House (Washington, D.C.) -- History.; Presidents -- United States -- Juvenile literature.; White House (Washington, D.C.) -- Juvenile literature.; Washington (D.C.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Juvenile literature.; Washington (D.C.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.; United States -- Politics and government.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Description: More than one hundred leading authors and illustrators donate their talents to a collection of essays, personal accounts, historical fiction, and poetry which looks at America's history through the prism of the White House.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by David McCullough; title: Looking in, looking out / by Gregory Maguire. Part I: From the foundation up / illustration by Bagram Ibatoulline; title: The White House first residents / by Jane Yolen ; illustrated by Petra Mathers; title: Testimony of Padraig Tomás Ó 'Deoráin: 1801 / imagined and illustrated by Mary Brigid Barrett; title: Slaves helped build the White House! / by Walter Dean Myers; title: Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826 / by Milton Meltzer; title: White House colonial kitchen gardens / by Stephanie Loer ; illustrated by S.D. Schindler; title: Jefferson's monstrous bones / iby Barbara Kerley; title: Bones on the floor / illustrated by Brian Selznick; title: An unusual guest / by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel; title: The capital city in 1800 / illustrated by Mike Reagan.; title: Part II: Struggling to stand / illustration by Wendell Minor; title: The White House prepares for war: 1812 / by Ralph Ketcham; title: The burning of the White House / by Susan Cooper; title: Dolley Madison rescues George Washington / written and illustrated by Don Brown; title: The first White House memoir: 1865 / by Paul Jennings ; illustrated by R. Gregory Christie; title: Another all-American girl / by Meg Cabot; title: From the walls of the White House / by Kathleen Krull ; illustrated by Robert Byrd; title: Visiting the Great Father / by Joseph Bruchac ; illustrated by Max Grafe; title: Sneaking into Adams field / by Michael Winerip; title: Andy and me / by Marguerite W. Davol ; illustrated by Tom Pohrt; title: The White House cow / by Richard Peck ; illustrated by Barry Root.; title: Part III: annexation and division / illustration by Timothy Basil Ering; title: From American notes / by Charles Dickens ; illustrated by Claire Nivola; title: On looking into dresses worn by the "First Ladies" of the White House (paper doll cut-outs), 1938 / by Nancy Willard ; illustrated with original book cover and paper dolls by Maybelle Mercer; title: Elizabeth Keckly: seamstress to First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, 1861-1865 / by Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack ; illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon; title: High spirits in the Lincoln White House / by Russell Freedman; title: Mary Todd Lincoln speaks of her son's death, 1862 / by Paul B. Janeczko; title: Memoir by Mary Henry: eyewitness to the Civil War in the city of Washington; title: In early April / by Kate DiCamillo ; illustrated by Chris Sheban.; title: Part IV: One lamp lights another / illustration by Nancy Carpenter; title: Mrs. Cleveland, White House bride / by Jennifer Armstrong; title: Seven from Ohio (for some reason) / written and illustrated by Natalie Babbitt; title: The eyes and ears of the public / by Katherine Paterson ; illustrated by Andréa Wesson; title: Theodore Roosevelt's letters to his children / by Leonard S. Marcus; title: TR's family & friends / illustration by Chris Van Dusen; title: Storming down the stairs / by Albert Marrin; title: Executive order for nature / by Jean Craighead George; title: America's wilderness / illustration by David Slonim; title: William Howard Taft: president, 1909-1913 / by Virginia Euwer Wolff ; illustrated by Kevin Hawkes.; title: Part V: With courage and determination / illustration by Emily Arnold McCully; title: Eyewitness to history / by Stephanie S. Tolan; title: Woodrow Wilson's work without end / by Jeannine Atkins ; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; title: Hoover's one term / written and illustrated by Matt Phelan; title: A rainmaker in the White House / by Michael Cooper; title: Portrait of FDR / illustration by Barry Moser; title: The four freedoms: from Franklin D. Roosevelt's address to Congress, January 6, 1941; title: Freedom of speech / illustration by Calef Brown; title: Freedom to worship / illustration by Peter Sís; title: Freedom from want / illustration by Ed Young; title: Freedom from fear / illustration by Stephen Alcorn; title: Hands / by Patricia MacLachlan ; illustrated by P.J. Lynch; title: A perfect image / by Linda Sue Park ; illustrated by Stéphane Jorisch; title: A note for the president / by Jerry Spinelli ; illustrated by Terry Widener; title: The house haunts / by M.T. Anderson ; illustrated by Mark Teague; title: A prayer for peace: from Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address to the nation; title: Good nights / by Lee Bennett Hopkins ; illustrated by William Low.; title: Part VI: The people's house / illustration by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher; title: The Kennedy White House / by Barbara Harrison; title: The White House, the moon, and a coal miner's son / by Homer Hickam ; illustrated by Joe Cepeda; title: A White House physician / by James Young, M.D.; title: A white mouse in the White House / by Anita Silvey; title: Escape map / by Mark London Williams; title: The presidential pet / written and illustrated by Stephen Kellogg; title: My room / by Lynda Johnson Robb ; illustrated by Jane Dyer; title: White House souvenir / by Polly Horvath ; illustrated by Sophie Blackall; title: Robert F. Kennedy's remarks on the assassination of Martin Luther King, jr.; title: Black White House/white black house / illustration by Chris Raschka; title: Watergate White House / illustratiion by Tony Auth; title: President Richard M. Nixon's final remarks to the White House staff; title: President Nixon's letter of resignation.; title: Part VII: The great house endures / illustration by Roxie Munro; title: From Christmas in Plains: memories / by Jimmie Carter ; illustrated by Don Powers; title: The White House / by Jon Sciesczka ; illustrated by Tony Fucile; title: Ronald Reagan / photograph by Diana Walker; title: From Ronald Reagan's farewell address to the nation; title: Letter to George, Jeb, Neil, Marvin, and Doro Bush from George H.W. Bush; title: George H.W. Bush / photograph by Diane Walker; title: The Secret Service / by Jess M. Brallier ; illustrated by David Small; title: I live in the White House / by Jack Prelutsky ; illustrated by Jim LaMarche; title: From Meet the press with Tim Russert: Interview with Vice President Dick Cheney, September 16, 2001; title: FromThe 9/11 Commission report; title: Visiting the White House / by Sarah Stewart; title: Backstairs at the White House / illustrations by David Small; title: The green house / by Megan McDonald; title: The first pitch / by Stephanie True Peters ; illlustrated by Matt Tavares; title: Wanted: magnanimous, exquisite woman! / by Gigi Amateau; title: Mrs. Bush inspires a National Book Festival / by John Y. Cole ; poster by Carol Dyer; title: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.: who's in the White House? / created by Bob Kolar; title: The White House by moonlight / by Walt Whitman ; illustrated by James Ransome; title: Letter from the NCBLA; title: Notes on sources used by the authors; title: Copyright acknowledgements and credits for public domain materials; title: Contributors to Our White House; title: Index; title: The White House Easter Egg Roll, 2003 / painting by Eric Carle; title: A big chair to fill / illustration by Leonid Gore.