Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Read Like a President



Happy Inauguration Day! In honor of our new president, I would like to recommend a few titles. Barack Obama has listed each of the following books as his favorite book on his facebook page. And you can check them out at the Willard Library:


  • Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  • The Tragedies by William Shakespeare
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
  • Speeches and writing of Abraham Lincoln

And as we say farewell to the Bushes, I would like to thank Laura Bush, a former school librarian, for her emphasis on early literacy during her years as First Lady.

Read Poster courtesy of the Skokie Public Library, hosted on Flickr.com. Photo of Obama holding book taken from NYTimes.com, cropped by Ms. Lee.

1 comment:

Willard Librarian said...

In the New York Times Magazine recently, an article about parenting as president stated that Obama has read all 7 of the Harry Potter books to his daughter Malia.