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.

Welcome Back!

I hope you all had a fabulous summer full of reading and explorations. I traveled in Mexico and read several books about early archaeological expeditions. Can you believe that it was once commonly believed that the pyramids in Central America were built by Egyptians?

Tell me about what you read and learned this summer. Click on "comments" below and add to Willard's Library Blog.