Sisters and former first daughters Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush stopped by the Tonight Show to talk about their new children’s book with host Jimmy Fallon.
Hager and Bush’s Love Comes First, illustrated by Ramona Kaulitzki, was published earlier this month by Little, Brown. The book follows two young sisters who welcome a new brother and cousin into their family; a critic for Kirkus called it “an inspiring message for all” that “will also be appreciated as a new-baby gift.”
The Bush sisters, daughters of former President George W. Bush and first Lady Laura Bush, have co-written three previous books, all sibling-themed: Sisters First, a memoir; a children’s book of the same name, also illustrated by Kaulitzki; and The Superpower Sisterhood, a picture book illustrated by Cyndi Wojciechowski.
Their new book is a sequel of sorts to the children’s book Sisters First, inspired by the 2021 birth of Bush’s daughter, they said.
“We sort of cornered the sister market,” Hager told Fallon. “We’ve written everything you could possibly write about having a sister. But what we realized is that people on book tours would say, ‘I don’t have a sister, but here’s my best friend’ or ‘Here’s my brother, they’ve always made me feel brave,’ and we realized the common denominator is love, people that lift us up.”
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
