Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out
Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out is the extraordinary anthology created by over 100 of America’s most gifted storytellers and artists as a
project of the National Children’s Book and Literacy Alliance. An incomparable collection of essays, personal accounts, historical fiction, poetry, and a stunning array of original art, Our White House offers a multifaceted look at America’s history through the prism of the White House. Our White House is available in both hardcover and paperback from Candlewick Press.
The companion educational website OurWhiteHouse.org was created for all adults who live and work with young people to help engage kids across America in history and current events. The website includes exclusive articles, activities, and discussion questions designed to encourage young people to think more about America's future, to talk more about our nation's leadership, and to act on their own beliefs.
Accolades for Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out
• An Amazon.com Best Book of the Year
• A Horn Book Fanfare Selection
• An American Library Association Notable Children’s Book
• An International Reading Association Teacher’s Choice
• A National Council for Social Studies Notable Trade Book for Young People
Quick Links
• The Exquisite Corpse Adventure is a progressive story game played by 20 celebrated authors and illustrators as a collaboration between the National Children’s Book and Literacy Alliance and the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. Read it now on Read.Gov. To learn more about this innovative national reading and writing outreach project and the corresponding education resource center, click here.
• US National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
Welcome! to the website for the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance. We are a not-for-profit literacy organization created in 1997 by award-winning children's book authors and illustrators. The NCBLA’s main goal is to make issues related to young people's literacy, literature, and libraries an ongoing priority on our national agenda. We act as a freelance, nonpartisan advocate, creating and developing special projects and events that promote literacy, literature, libraries, and the arts; educating the public about practical literacy and education solutions; and ensuring young people's right to read.
We have created this site for you, so that you can help the young people you care about become lifelong readers, creative and critical thinkers, and responsible citizens, for we believe that literacy is intrinsic to a healthy democracy. Within our site you'll find a wide variety of information — author interviews and book recommendations; information on censorship and young people's reading rights; literacy and literature resources; links to other literacy organizations and book lists — as well as information for the press and media. We have suggestions for getting young people excited about books and reading. We offer ideas to help kids become better writers, better critical and creative thinkers. We will also be throwing out ideas that we hope will make us all think more about kids, literature, art, education, and our nation’s future. And because we want all of our young people to have free and fair access to information and story in both electronic and traditional formats, we offer a menu of advocacy ideas so that whatever your profession or personal situation, you too, can become a literacy and library activist.
Take your time, browse through the pages, enjoy. This site is meant to be read. If you have questions, concerns, or need specific information, let us know. We are also very interested in hearing your ideas, suggestions, and creative solutions.
We hope you enjoy our site. We regret only that you'll be missing the experience of a book, solid, warm, and satisfying in your hands — a real book that you can read and digest at your own pace, in your own space, lovely to the touch, easily opened, and instantly accessed. Sadly, until technology catches up with books, you'll have to imagine the sibilant whisper of a turning page and the rich — and non-glaring — elegance of ink on paper. In the meantime, greetings from the NCBLA, and enjoy your visit.
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