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Mrs. Laura Bush speaks during a conference on school safety at the National 4-H Conference Center in Chevy Chase, Md., Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2006. White House photo by Shealah Craighead
Mrs. Laura Bush speaks during a conference on school safety at the National 4-H Conference Center in Chevy Chase, Md., Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2006. White House photo by Shealah Craighead
Mrs. Laura Bush calls on a young member of the audience to speak after she finished reading the book, “The Spider and the Fly” by Mary Howitt, illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi, during a visit to the West Palm Beach Public Library in West Palm Beach, Fla., Friday, Oct. 27, 2006. The Library began its reading room in a congregational church in 1894, and has grown to have over one hundred-thousand books in their collection. White House photo by Shealah Craighead Mrs. Laura Bush speaks during a conference on school safety at the National 4-H Conference Center in Chevy Chase, Md., Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2006. White House photo by Shealah Craighead
Mrs. Laura Bush stands with her second grade teacher, Charlene Gnagy, as Mrs. Gnagy speaks to the audience Thursday, October 5, 2006, during the TeachersCount “Behind every famous person is a fabulous teacher” PSA campaign launch ceremony in New York City. The campaign is to help create awareness for teachers and the role they play in the lives of children and to raise the status of the teaching profession. White House photo by Shealah Craighead Mrs. Laura Bush delivers her remarks during the National Endowment for the Arts ‘Big Read’ event Thursday, July 20, 2006, at the Library of Congress in Washington. The ‘Big Read’ is a new program to encourage the reading of classic literature by young readers and adults. White House photo by Shealah Craighead
Mrs. Laura Bush meets with students during her visit to Our Lady of Perpetual Help School in Washington, Monday, June 5, 2006, where she announced a Laura Bush Foundation for America’s Libraries grant to the school. White House photo by Shealah Craighead Mrs. Laura Bush joins Our Lady of Perpetual Help School principal Charlene Hursey, left, and Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Archbishop of Washington, D.C., in applauding student Marquette Lewis, 11, after his reading of the poem “Coming of Age,” Monday, June 5, 2006. Mrs. Bush visited the school to announce a Laura Bush Foundation for America’s Libraries grant to Our Lady of Perpetual Help School. White House photo by Shealah Craighead
Mrs. Laura Bush talks with students during her visit to Our Lady of Perpetual Help School in Washington, Monday, June 5, 2006, where she announced a Laura Bush Foundation for America’s Libraries grant to the school. Mrs. Bush is joined by Our Lady of Perpetual Help fifth grade teacher Julie Sweetland, right. White House photo by Shealah Craighead Mrs. Laura Bush and U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings visit the Sixth Grade Language Arts Class at the Avon Avenue Elementary School, Thursday, March 16, 2006 in Newark, N.J., where Mrs. Bush announced a Striving Readers grant to Newark Public Schools. White House photo by Shealah Craighead
Mrs. Laura Bush addresses an audience at the Avon Avenue Elementary School, Thursday, March 16, 2006 in Newark, N.J., where Mrs. Bush announced a Striving Readers grant to Newark Public Schools. The grant will be used to support programs to improve students reading skills. White House photo by Shealah Craighead A little reader takes a closer look as Mrs. Laura Bush reads the children's book, "I Love You, Little One," by Nancy Tafuri during a visit to the Jenna Welch and Laura Bush Community Library in El Paso, Texas, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2006. Since the library opened in 2003, the number of programs and attendance has tripled. Through the past year, the Library hosted 349 programs for more than 10,000 participants. White House photo by Shealah Craighead
Mrs. Laura Bush is joined by U.S. Department of Education Secretary Margaret Spellings at a roundtable discussion with Ohio teachers during “Celebrating Teachers” week, Tuesday, May 2, 2006 at the Thurber Center in Columbus, Ohio, highlighting the importance of teachers in children's lives. Moderator of the discussion is Deepa Ganschinietz, far right, the 2006 Ohio Teacher of the Year. White House photo by Kimberlee Hewitt Mrs. Laura Bush watches as David Temple, actor portraying Benjamin Franklin, performs a demonstration related to static electricity at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, Wednesday, October 18, 2006, with the help of a 6th grade student from the Baines Middle School in Houston, TX. White House photo by Shealah Craighead

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