Laura Bush's Recommended Reading

What a surprise I had in the mail today, Mrs. Laura Bush sent quite a few photos from the White House... as well as her recommended reading list.

Thank you, Mrs. Bush!

Recommended Reading:

• Katherine Anne Porter, Ship of Fools; The Collected Stores of Katherine Anne Porter
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
• Toni Morrison, Beloved
• Truman Capote, Music for Chameleons
• John Graves, Goodbye to a River
• David McCullough, Mornings on Horseback; and other biographies
• Rudolfo A. Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima
• Willa Cather, My Antonia; Death Comes to the Archbishop
• Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

Recommended Family Reading:

• Charlotte's Webb, E.B. White
• Hank the Cowdog (series), John R. Erickson
• Little House on the Prairie (series), Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
• Old Yeller, Fred Gipson
• The House onMango Street, Sandra Cisneros
• The People Could Fly, Virginia Hamilton
• Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
• Winnie the Pooh (series), A.A. Milne

Recommended Books To Read To Young Children:

• Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown
• Babar (series), Laurent DeBrunhoff
• Carlo Likes Reading, Jessica Spanyol
• Clifford the Big Red Dog (series), Norman Bridwell
• Corduroy, Don Freeman
• Frances the Badger (series), Russell Hoban
• Hop on Pop, and others by Dr. Seuss
• May Way for Ducklings, Robert McCloskey
• Mother Goose Rhymes
• Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs, Tomie DePaola

For a complete list of Mrs. Laura Bush's recommended reading list, please go to the Official White House Website.