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GEORGE WASHINGTON
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Dining With the Washingtons
Stephen A. McLeod, editor
hardcover
9780807835265
238 pages
35.00
This beautifully-produced book brings to life the hospitality George and Martha Washington offered their guests. You can try your hand at historic recipes such as apple fritters, Shrewsbury cakes or Salamongundy.
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The Essential George Washington
Peter Hannaford
trade paper
9781884592614
204 pages
14.95
Here are fascinating, revealing and often surprising opinions on the man himself from more than sixty observers from the past centuries, including Martha Dandridge Washington, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oscar Wilde and Ronald Reagan.
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FOR YOUNG READERS
George: George Washington, Our Founding Father
Keating & Wimmer
hardcover
9781416954828
32 pages
16.99
Here, in an intimate first-person telling woven with quotes from his “Rules of Civility” the statesman’s life engages and inspires readers.
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FOR YOUNG READERS
George Did It
Jurmain & Day
trade paper
9780142408957
40 pages
6.99
Filled with little-known and humorous facts, this book reveals a more personal side of our first president- a great leader who could also a little nervous.
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FOR YOUNG READERS
George Washington
Cheryl Harness
trade paper
9780792254904
48 pages
7.95
Lovely color illustrations portray Washington. “Not marble. Not clay. Flesh and blood. Vision and heart.”
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FOR YOUNG READERS
George Washington: A Photographic Story of a Life
Lenny Hort
trade paper
9780756608354
128 pages
5.99
This DK Biography has more than 100 photographs, artworks and artifacts to bring Washington and his times into vivid focus.
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FOR YOUNG READERS
George Washington and the General’s Dog
Murphy & Walz
trade paper
9780375810152
48 pages
3.99
Kids will enjoy this book in the “Step Into Reading” series that reveals the Father of our Country was also kind to animals- even those that belonged to the enemy!
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George Washington Crossword Puzzles
Museum Masterworks
staplebound
9780983641605
28 pages
3.95
Challenging puzzles and color illustrations will have you learning more about the Father of Our Country.
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FOR YOUNG READERS
George Washington Coloring Book
Peter F. Copeland
staple bound
9780486426471
48 pages
3.95
Informative captions accompany detailed illustrations in an entertaining coloring book that can also serve as a reference for young students of American history.
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FOR YOUNG READERS
George Washington: History Makers Bios
Candice F. Ransom
trade paper
9780822503842
48 pages
8.95
His name has been given to 1 state, 23 cities and at least 7 mountains. Colorful illustrations will keep young readers enthralled with GW’s story.
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FOR YOUNG READERS
George Washington Leads the Way
Bentley Boyd
staple bound
9781933122441
24 pages
6.95
Here’s a graphic adventure about the seven qualities of a Revolutionary Leader- and who better exemplifies them than George Washington? Done in cooperation with Mount Vernon.
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FOR YOUNG READERS
George Washington: Our First Leader
Stevenson & Dreany
trade paper
9780020421504
192 pages
5.99
This entry in the “Childhood of Famous Americans” series includes familiar stories like chopping down the cherry tree.
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George Washington Word Searches
Word Searches of America, Ltd.
staple bound
9781579410018
26 pages
2.99
Puzzle topics include Mount Vernon, Painters and Sculptors and nicknames. |
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FOR YOUNG READERS
George Washington’s Breakfast
Fritz and Galdone
trade paper
9780698116115
48 pages
6.99
George Washington Allen wants to know all the important things about his namesake, but it’s quite a project to find out what our first president had for breakfast.
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FOR YOUNG READERS
George Washington’s Cows
David Small
trade paper
9780374425340
40 pages
8.99
In charming water colors this book imagines the livestock at Mount Vernon to be endowed with human traits- for better and worse! No wonder George went into politics.
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George Washington’s Farewell Address
George Washington
hardcover
9781557094544
34 pages
9.95
Here in a small but handsome binding is the speech delivered to the assembled members of Congress September 17, 1796.
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FOR YOUNG READERS
George Washington’s Mother
Fritz and Di Salvo
trade paper
9780448403847
48 pages
3.99
This Penguin Young Readers entry tells the story of Mary Ball, a strong-minded woman known to us now as the mother of George Washington. It may surprise you.
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George Washington’s Rules of Civility
George Washington
hardcover
9781557091031
32 pages
9.95
Diligence in social matters was common practice during the era of the father of our country. Here he sets forth 110 rules of behavior we would do well to observe even today. “Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise.”
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George Washington's Secret Six
Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger
trade paper
9781595231109
272 pages
16.00
Few know that Washington recruited a sophisticated intelligence network to help defeat the British where military might was not enough. True history that reads like a spy thriller.
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FOR YOUNG READERS
George Washington’s Socks
Elvira Woodruff
trade paper
9780590440363
168 pages
5.99
In this Time Travel Adventure, five children experience the American Revolution firsthand and learn the sobering realities of war.
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FOR YOUNG READERS
George Washington’s Teeth
Chandra, Comora & Cole
trade paper
9780312376049
40 pages
7.99
Based on his own letters, diaries and accounts, the Father of Our Country suffered all his life with tooth problems. Here his youngest fans can learn about those dental woes and be grateful for the medical advances that help us save our own teeth today.
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FOR YOUNG READERS
If You Grew Up with George Washington
Gross & McCully
trade paper
9780590451553
64 pages
6.99
Find out what it was like to live in Virginia during the 1730s and 1740s and get a sense of what George Washington’s childhood was like.
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FOR YOUNG READERS
Meet George Washington
Heilbroner & Marchesi
trade paper
9780375803970
66 pages
4.99
So many years after his death, the life of Washington has much to teach young readers. His qualities of honesty, devotion to duty and perseverance are still worth aspiring to.
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FOR YOUNG READERS
Phoebe the Spy
Griffin & Tomes
trade paper
9780698119567
48 pages
6.99
Someone is planning to kill George Washington. And young Phoebe Fraunces, disguised as a housekeeper, is trying to save his life in this tale of history and suspense.
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Quotations of George Washington
George Washington
hardcover
9781557099372
32 pages
9.95
“To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.”
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FOR YOUNG READERS
Take the Lead, George Washington
St George and Powers
hardcover
9780399238871
48 pages
17.99
Charming drawings depict major moments in the early life of our first president, including his adventures in the wilderness as a surveyor’s assistant.
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Washington: A Life
Ron Chernow
trade paper
9780143119968
928 pages
20.00
This one-volume biography shatters the stereotype of a stolid, unemotional man, and brings to life a dashing, passionate man of fiery opinions and many moods.
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Washington: The Indispensable Man
James Thomas Flexner
trade paper
9780316286169
442 pages
18.99
This dramatic and concise single-volume distillation of the award-winning four volume biography has become an American classic.
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FOR YOUNG READERS
Who Was George Washington?
Edwards & Kelley
trade paper
9780448448923
106 pages
5.99
Kids will learn many fascinating facts about our Founding Father and first president.
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