Next Year in the White House
Barack Obama's First Presidential Seder
$88.68
- Hardcover
40 pages
- Release Date
4 March 2025
Summary
The true story of how a small Seder dinner on the campaign trail inspired Barack Obama to bring the tradition into the White House and host the first ever Presidential Passover celebration.
In 1800, President John Adams held the first formal Christmas dinner at the newly built White House. In 1878, President Rutherford B. Hayes observed Easter with a public “Egg Roll.” But it wasn’t until 2009 that a US president officially celebrated Passover.
A year earlier, on the campaign …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780593711590 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0593711599 |
| Author: | Richard Michelson, E.B. Lewis |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Children's Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 40 |
| Release Date: | 4 March 2025 |
| Weight: | 544g |
| Dimensions: | 311mm x 273mm x 10mm |
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Critics Review
★ “Essential reading for all children—and adults—who hope for freedom for all.“—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
★ “Michelson goes back to 2008, to three lonely presidential campaign workers who gathered in a dingy meeting room in Harrisburg with a package of matzo, two cans of macaroons, and a bottle of Manischewitz for a Passover seder. There came a sudden knock at the door, and in walked not Elijah but Barack Obama… . As the original trio writes in a collective closing note, the ‘purpose of Passover is to tell the story of freedom in your own way and in your time.“—Booklist, starred review
“With its gentle text and watercolor illustrations, “Next Year in the White House” offers an intimate glimpse of a significant moment of interfaith dialogue.“—The Washington Post
About The Author
Richard Michelson
Richard Michelson is a poet, children’s book author, and art dealer. His children’s books have received numerous accolades, including being listed among the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and The New Yorker, and among the 12 Best Books of the Decade by Amazon.com. He has been a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award, the Harlem Book Fest Wheatley Award, and the National Jewish Book Award.
Michelson has received two Skipping Stones Multicultural Book Awards, a National Parenting Publication Gold Medal, and an International Reading Association Teacher’s Choice Award. In 2009, he was honored with both a Sydney Taylor Gold and Silver Medal from the Association of Jewish Librarians, the only author in the AJL’s 50-year history to receive both in the same year. He received his second Silver Medal in 2017 and his second Gold Medal in 2018. Additionally, Michelson won the 2017 National Jewish Book Award.
Michelson is the owner of R. Michelson Galleries, the host of Northampton Poetry Radio, and the current Poet Laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts.
E.B. Lewis has illustrated over seventy books for children. His notable works include Preaching to the Chickens by Jabari Asim, winner of the New York Times Best Illustrated Book Award, Kirkus Best Illustrated Book Award, and the Golden Kite Honor Award, and Coming on Home Soon by Jacqueline Woodson, a Caldecott Honor Award winner. He is also a five-time Coretta Scott King Award winner.
Lewis currently teaches at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He is a member of The Society of Illustrators in New York City and an artist member of the Salamagundi Art Club of New York.
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