Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation Archives

April 25, 2024 Heather Staible

PaperCity Magazine: Barbara Bush’s Beloved A Celebration of Reading Raises More Than $2 Million In Unique Charity Doubleheader

Looking out at those gathered at A Celebration of Reading fundraiser, Neil Bush had no doubt his mother Barbara Bush would be thrilled with the difference her namesake foundation makes in Houston’s literacy crisis. “Mom is smiling down from heaven righ…

February 26, 2020 Shelby Hodge

PaperCity Magazine: Houston’s Most Motivated Young Professionals Eat Crazy Amounts of Crawfish for a Cause

What: Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation‘s “Crawfish for a Cause” Where: Holman Draft Hall PC Moment: Crawfish balloons, crawfish necklaces and pounds and pounds of the boiled mudbugs made for a finger-lickin’ good afterno…

December 16, 2019 Shelby Hodge

PaperCity Magazine: Barbara Bush Reveal — Powerhouse Lineup of Authors Coming to Houston

Heads up, fans of author Kathy Reichs and her Temperance Brennan character. The New York Times best-selling mystery writer has signed on for the Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation‘s “A Celebration of Reading.” She is just one in…

December 6, 2019 Shelby Hodge

PaperCity Magazine: Houston’s Hottest Young Professionals Throw the Ultimate Ugly Christmas Sweater Party

Holiday fun comes in all shapes and sizes but few Christmasy diversions could be more entertaining than a tacky sweater party. Just ask the very unfashionable throng that rolled into the Childrens’ Museum of Houston for a sixth season of dressin…