Works by
Lady Bird Johnson
(aka Claudia Alta Taylor)
(Writer)
[1912 - July 11, 2007]

Children

• Miss Lady Bird's Wildflowers: How a First Lady Changed America (2005) by Kathi Appelt with Joy Fisher Hein, Illustrator
  Bluebonnets and lady's slippers, larkspurs and blazing stars, black-eyed Susans and Granny's nightcaps.
  
  From a lonely childhood in the Piney Woods of East Texas to an exciting life in the White House, Lady Bird Johnson loved these wildflowers with all her heart. They were her companions in her youth, greeting her everywhere as she explored wild forests, bayous, and hills. Later, as First Lady, she sought to bring the beauty of wildflowers to America's cities and highways. She wanted to make sure every child could enjoy the splendor of wildflowers.
  
  In this warm, engaging look at the life of a great First Lady, Kathi Appelt tells the story behind Lady Bird Johnson's environmental vision. Joy Fisher Hein's colorful wildflowers burst from every page, inviting us to share in Lady Bird's love for natural beauty.  Ages 9-12

Non-fiction

• Texas -- A Roadside View (1980)

• A White House Diary: The Exhibition (1985)

• Wildflowers Across America (1994, 2001) by Carlton B. Lees and Lady Bird Johnson with Les Line, Photographer
  Wildflowers Across America is both a tribute to one of this country's loveliest natural resources and a strong plea for increasing the use of native plants and wildflowers in America's future landscaping. Once established, wildflowers take little maintenance and are an ecologically sound and low-cost way to make roadsides, park areas, golf-course roughs, or your own country garden grow and bloom. This book argues that we should let nature be our guide and get ourselves in rhythm with her teachings.
  
  However, although we have built up centuries of knowledge about the best ways to grow vegetables, fruit, and garden flowers, we seem to know next to nothing about the propagation of wildflowers. To remedy this ignorance, Lady Bird Johnson decided that the time had come to begin accumulating the same kinds of broad data for natural flora that we have for the cultivated roses and tulips in our own gardens. Accordingly, in 1982, she donated $125,000 and a few of the family's acres outside Austin, Texas, to the founding of a National Wildflower Research Center, now known as the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.
  
  This book is a true collaborative effort between the country's preeminent wildflower enthusiast and a prominent horticulturist who responds to her countless questions about wildflowers. Why do some thrive in some places and not in others? How do they propagate naturally? Are all of our well-loved wildflowers native to this continent or have many been introduced from other regions? In dealing with questions like these, Carlton Lees selected relevant excerpts from the journals of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century plant explorers who saw this land in its pristine beauty and recorded for Old World scientists the botanical wonders of the New World. Lees also chose to illustrate some of the most beautiful representations of America's unique flora in botanical publications of this early period.
  
  But one of the major treats of this volume is the abundance of beautiful wildflowers shown in the wild and in their true, natural color. Not only are carefully identified flower portraits scattered throughout this book, but an unparalleled 105-page album featuring the best-loved and most spectacular of America's wildflowers has been selected by Les Line from the work of the nation's best nature photographers.

• A Texas Bluebonnet: Lady Bird Johnson (2006) by David Murphy

Other

• American Wildflowers: Address Books (1996)

See also:

• Aunt Ta's Heirloom Cook Book, a Treasury of Recipes Famous and Interesting People (Date?) by Juanita Lewis (Aunt Ta) with Charlotte McCoy, ed.
  Includes Nancy Reagan's pumpkin pecan pie and strawberry angel food delight as well as recipes by Jacqueline Kennedy, Barbara Bush; Lady Bird Johnson and many more.

• Ten First Ladies of the World (1967) by Pauline Fredrick

• Lady: The Story of Claudia Alta (1991) by Jean Flynn
  Discusses the early years, marriage, and political campaigns and projects of Lady Bird Johnson.

• Five First Ladies: A Look into the Lives of Nancy Reagan, Rosalynn Carter, Betty Ford, Pat Nixon, and Lady Bird Johnson (1986) by Elizabeth Simpson Smith
  Describes the duties and privileges of the President's wife, known as the First Lady, and profiles Nancy Reagan, Rosalynn Carter, Betty Ford, Pat Nixon, and Lady Bird Johnson.  Young adult.

• Lady Bird Johnson (1998) by Charnan Simon
  A simple biography of former First Lady Lady Bird Johnson, focusing on her efforts to beautify the nation. Ages 9-12.

• Lady Bird: A Biography of Mrs. Johnson (1999) by Jan Jarboe Russell
  A revealing biography of Lady Bird Johnson with startling new insights into her marriage to Lyndon Baines Johnson and her unexpectedly strong impact on his presidency.

• A Biography of Lady Bird Johnson (2006) by Rose Houk with Abby Mogollon, ed.
  Throughout her long life, Mrs. Lyndon Baines Johnson has embraced challenge and adventure. With strength, independence, and intelligence, she has upheld causes that have become her trademark, working tirelessly for conservation and education, in particular. In her home state of Texas, her adopted home of Washington, D.C., and across the nation, we can see the affects of this work. It s visible from national parks in California to the world-renowned wildflower center that bears her name in Texas. A Biography of Lady Bird Johnson gives us a thoughtful look at the life of this influential and graceful woman. Brief and informative, the book weaves together her biography with archival images. Author Rose Houk traces Lady Bird s life both before and after marrying Lyndon Baines Johnson, and Houk shows us Mrs. Johnson s metamorphosis into a public figure in her own right. This book follows every role daughter, single young woman, mother, widow and shows how this gracious lady has left her mark.