In the tradition of Virginia Lee Burton's The Little House comes a heartfelt story about a father and son learning to accept the new while honoring and celebrating the old. For as long as he can remember, Leo has lived in the blue house with his dad, but lately the neighborhood is changing. People are leaving, houses are being knocked down, and shiny new buildings are going up in their place. When Leo and his dad are forced to leave, they aren't happy about it. They howl and rage and dance out their feelings. When the time comes, they leave the blue house behind--there was never any choice, not really--but little by little, they find a way to keep its memory alive in their new home.

Find out how the White House was built, and meet the first families and their pets that have lived there. Take a tour of the public rooms and visit the big back yard.

Home to a family, office of the President, museum of a nation, house of the people. Indexed. Illustrated with archival drawings and historic photographs.

Written by historians and journalists, this collection of essays is an outgrowth of the two-hundredth anniversary symposium sponsored by the White House Historical Association.

"These scholarly essays are full of interesting and surprising tidbits that will delight even the casual reader." -- Publishers Weekly