Holiday Book Festival!—Children's Books

Fri Dec 03 2021 at 12:00 pm to 02:00 pm

White House History Shop | Washington

White House Historical Association
Publisher/HostWhite House Historical Association
Holiday Book Festival!\u2014Children's Books
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Meet the authors during the White House Historical Association's Holiday Book Festival!
About this Event

The White House Historical Association will be hosting a week long lunchtime Holiday Book Festival with different authors featured each day!

Signing Daily: Marcia Anderson and Kristen Mason authors of The Official White House Ornament: Collected Stories of A Holiday Tradition.

Enter a raffle to win an original drawing by artist John Hutton!


Featured Authors on Friday, December 3:

John Bemelmans Marciano will be signing Madeline at the White House.

Giovanna McBride will be signing Gigi at the White House!

John Hutton will be signing How to Draw the Presidents and presenting live drawing lessons.

Rocco Smirne will be signing Rocco Travels with the Presidents!

Arioth and Rocco Smirne will be signing A White House Alphabet


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Readers will see Washington, D.C., as never before, when Madeline takes a midnight sightseeing tour on a magic carpet of cherry blossoms. Invited to the White House by Candle, the president's lonely only daughter, for the annual Easter Egg hunt and roll, Madeline and the other little girls have a rollicking good time, and introduce Candle to the joys of occasionally breaking the rules. With a bouncy read-aloud text and gorgeous watercolor pictures, Madeline at the White House is in the best tradition of the beloved Madeline books.


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Many children have at least one special opportunity to visit their parents at work, and this was true for Gigi McBride whose mother had a very unique job—she worked at the White House. During the George W. Bush administration, Gigi had many adventures visiting her mother Anita McBride,Chief of Staff to First Lady Laura Bush. Now that she is a college student with a love of children's literature, she decided to share her special memories of her visits to the White House from 2005 to 2009 when she was 4 to 8 years old.


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The presidents of the United States of America have always been a popular subject for American artists. Official presidential portraits line the walls of the White House, reminding all of their esteemed subjects. The first artist to have the honor of creating an official presidential portrait was Gilbert Stuart, whose famous painting of President George Washington is one of the most treasured pieces in the White House Collection. In this unique and fun new book, the award-winning illustrator John Hutton offers step-by-step lessons for aspiring artists of all ages to draw the presidents.


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Every president of the United States has to travel to attend important events and to meet people around the world. For more than two hundred years, the presidents have taken journeys on horses, trains, ships, cars, airplanes, and helicopters. Sometimes, just for fun, they have also used bicycles, golf carts, and even parachutes! Rocco is six years old, but he already knows a great deal about the White House and the presidents and the places he would like to go too, so he created this book to share some of the adventures he would have if he could travel with the presidents! Rocco travels through time and around the world to ride horses with Abraham Lincoln and bicycles with Jimmy Carter. He boards trains for a trip out west with Grover Cleveland and a New York jaunt with Franklin Roosevelt. He has fun riding in Lyndon Johnson's Amphicar and Joe Biden's Corvette. He ends the book with his favorite trip of all: a flight on Marine One.


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The White House has served as the home and office of the President of the United States for more than two hundred years. Its history fills thousands of books, but the best place to start to learn about the President's House is with the twenty-six letters of the alphabet! You'll find every letter here from A to Z!

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

White House History Shop, 1610 H Street Northwest, Washington, United States

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