But there was something else hidden away inside an envelope tucked between the book’s pages: a lock of hair belonging to George Washington. “You had to actually open the book and see it there ...

The cover of the book ""A Birthday Cake for George Washington" by Ramin Ganeshram. (Scholastic/AP) The book tells the story a real-life slave named Hercules, as he prepares to bake a cake for ...

Scholastic is pulling a new picture book about George Washington and his slaves amid objections it sentimentalizes a brutal part of American history. “A Birthday Cake for George Washington ...

Starting with its cover illustration, a playful Washington grinning ... them to pick up the book, but how can I make them feel like they are well equipped to dive into George Washington’s ...

Charles Rappleye, who was once an investigative journalist, has won the third annual $50,000 George Washington Book Prize for his ... long before the Civil War, covers 100 years, from the birth ...

George Washington kept meticulous records of his ... as a Farmer at Mount Vernon,” the painting that graces the book’s cover. In this reliable and thorough rendering of “the most celebrated ...

George Washington, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph J. Ellis examines the myths and realities surrounding our nation's first president. Ellis suggests Washington was motivated as much by ...

After a torrent of criticism, Scholastic has decided to stop distributing A Birthday Cake for George Washington, a picture book about one of George Washington's slaves. The historical book tells ...

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