Texas Gov. George W. Bush, who is often photographed reading to children on the presidential campaign trail, was asked in a survey recently to name his favorite book from childhood.
He cited Eric Carle's ``The Very Hungry Caterpillar.'' Trouble is, it wasn't published until 1969 -- the year after he graduated from Yale.
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But four of the seven books named by Bush, who was born in 1946, weren't written until long after he was out of grade school. |