Read All About It!

A classroom adventure that will have readers racing to the shelves, from Mrs. Laura Bush and her daughter Jenna!

Tyrone rules the school! He’s king of the monkey bars, a math machine, and a science whiz. Recess is his absolute favourite! He loves tackling tricky math problems at the blackboard and racing across the playground with his friends.

The only thing he doesn’t like about school is reading. It’s so boring! But when strange visitors start dropping by the classroom during story hour, Tyrone discovers there’s more to books than just words on pages.

First a spooky ghost named Jasper drops in on Halloween, followed by Benjamin Franklin carrying a kite. Soon a fire-breathing dragon swoops past the window, and a friendly little pig curls up right beside Tyrone on the story hour rug.

The polite pig eats cafeteria lunch scraps and keeps the whole class laughing. That hungry pig is hilarious! When story time ends and the pig vanishes into thin air, Tyrone leads his best friends on a mission through the cafeteria to solve the mystery.

• Unlikely Hero: Tyrone would rather play catch with his dad or pull weeds in the yard than sit with a book, but an afternoon story about astronauts inspires him to launch a paper rocket across the classroom.
• Picture Books for Children: From checking the cafeteria menu for clues to suspecting the gym coach drafted their runaway visitor for the football team, the whole class joins the investigation.
• Funny Books for Kids: A trail of oinking leads the search party straight into the music room, where the big clue turns out to be first-graders singing Old MacDonald Had a Farm.
• Found Family: Tyrone rallies his loyal crew—bespectacled Edik, lively Zhenya, and gentle giant Big Dmitry—to make sure their classroom stays in order.
• Also by This Author: Our Great Big Backyard and Bush Picture Book.

For decades, Laura Bush has championed key issues in the fields of education, health care, human rights, and the preservation of our nation’s heritage. A hiking and outdoors enthusiast, Mrs. Bush encourages Americans to spend time in and care for our national parks.

The author of the bestselling memoir Spoken from the Heart, Mrs. Bush also founded both the Texas Book Festival and the National Book Festival in Washington, DC. Today, as the chair of the Women’s Initiative at the George W. Bush Institute, Mrs. Bush continues her work on global health-care innovations, empowering women in emerging democracies, education reform, and supporting the men and women who have served in America’s military. 

Mrs. Bush holds a degree in education and a master’s degree in library science. She taught in public schools in Dallas, Houston, and Austin and worked as a public school librarian.

Jenna Bush Hager is the cohost of the fourth hour of the Today show with Hoda Kotb and the founder of the Today book club, Read with Jenna. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling Everything Beautiful in Its Time and coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestselling Ana’s Story and two children’s books—Our Great Big Backyard and Read All About It—which she wrote with her mother, Laura, as well as the #1 New York Times bestsellers Sisters First, written with her sister, Barbara, in both adult and children’s editions. She lives with her husband and three children in New York City.

Denise Brunkus has illustrated more than sixty books for children, most notably the bestselling Junie B. Jones series by Barbara Park, Read All About It! by Laura Bush and Jenna Bush, and Charlie Hits It Big by Deborah Blumenthal. Denise is basically a neat person, so adding smudges and smears to the art for Sloppy Joe was an unexpected thrill. She lives in Massachusetts.

Denise Brunkus es una conocida ilustradora de libros para niños con más de sesenta libros publicados, entre los que se destacan la exitosa serie Junie B. Jones, Charlie Hits It Big, Chocolatina y Groundhog Gets a Say. Vive en Massachusetts con su esposo y su gran colección de libros.