Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out [SCM]
by David McCullough, et. al. Author
A collection of stories, poems, first-hand accounts, imagined conversations, and illustrations about the events connected with the White House and the presidents who lived there. More than 108 authors and illustrators contributed to the project, including Patricia MacLachlan, Charles Dickens, Russell Freedman, Jean Craighead George, and Walt Whitman, plus memoirs and excerpts from Eisenhower, Roosevelt, Kennedy, Nixon, Carter, Regan, and Bush. Presents a wonderful living overview of American history, including a great number of the presidents. Touches on the major events through the years of history but focuses on the people who lived during those events.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 076362067X
- Print Status
- In Print
- Stories
- 69
- Pages
- 242
- Suggested Grades
- 1st - 6th
- Geographical Setting
- Washington D. C.
- Historical Setting
- 1792 - 2008
- Publisher
- Candlewick Press
- Copyright
- 2008
Stories
- 1 Looking In, Looking Out
- 2 The White House First Residents
- 3 Testimony of Padraig Tomas O'Deorain: 1801
- 4 Slaves Helped Build the White House!
- 5 Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826
- 6 White House Colonial Kitchen Gardens
- 7 Jefferson's Monstrous Bones
- 8 An Unusual Guest
- 9 The White House Prepares for War: 1812
- 10 The Burning of the White House
- 11 Dolley Madison Rescues George Washington
- 12 The First White House Memoir: 1865
- 13 Another All-American Girl
- 14 From the Walls of the White House
- 15 Visiting the Great Father
- 16 Sneaking into Adams Field
- 17 Andy and Me
- 18 The White House Cow
- 19 From American Notes
- 20 On Looking into Dresses Worn by the First Ladies
- 21 Elizabeth Keckly
- 22 High Spirits in the Lincoln White House
- 23 Mary Todd Lincoln Speaks of Her Son's Death, 1862
- 24 Memoir by Mary Henry
- 25 In Early April
- 26 Mrs. Cleveland, White House Bride
- 27 Seven from Ohio
- 28 The Eyes and Ears of the Public
- 29 Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children
- 30 Storming Down the Stairs
- 31 Executive Order for Nature
- 32 William Howard Taft
- 33 Eyewitness to History
- 34 Woodrow Wilson's Work Without End
- 35 Hoover's One Term
- 36 A Rainmaker in the White House
- 37 The Four Freedoms
- 38 Hands
- 39 A Perfect Image
- 40 A Note for the President
- 41 The House Haunts
- 42 A Prayer for Peace
- 43 Good Nights
- 44 The Kennedy White House
- 45 The White House, the Moon, and a Coal Miner's Son
- 46 A White House Physician
- 47 A White Mouse in the White House
- 48 Escape Map
- 49 The Presidential Pet
- 50 My Room
- 51 White House Souvenir
- 52 Robert F. Kennedy's Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- 53 President Richard M. Nixon's Final Remarks to the White House Staff
- 54 From Christmas in Plains: Memories
- 55 The White House
- 56 From Ronald Reagan's Farewell Address to the Nation
- 57 December 31, 1990 (George Bush's Letter to His Family)
- 58 The Secret Service
- 59 I Live in the White House
- 60 From Meet the Press with Tim Russert
- 61 From the 9/11 Commission Report
- 62 Visiting the White House
- 63 Backstairs at the White House
- 64 The Green House
- 65 The First Pitch
- 66 Wanted: Magnanimous, Exquisite Woman!
- 67 Mrs. Bush Inspires a National Book Festival
- 68 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
- 69 The White House by Moonlight
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Reviewed by Parent/Teacher
I really enjoyed this book. It's hard to find a good American history book that includes recent historical events but is appropriate for younger children: this book fits the bill! Plus I was fascinated by the information myself!
Just a couple of the stories I would probably omit if reading aloud to the children: (1) The House Haunts - though it does contain a classic Winston Churchill line :-) and (2) The Four Freedoms illustrations - I much prefer the original Four Freedoms by Norman Rockwell.
The Green House "letters from children," which you can tell were not really written by children, wasn't my favorite portion of the book. But over all, this is an excellent collection that I want to add to our home library!