The Reading for All Festival is an influential, state-wide initiative, which was overseen by Suzanne Mubarak, former first lady of Egypt. Among the published goals of the program were to combat illiteracy among poor Egyptian populations and to encourage Egyptian youth to develop better reading habits. The Egyptian government monitored the authorship and production of books in this festival. Books were often provided for free, or for a marginal cost that enabled wide range of the Egyptians to acquire them. Themes of political, religious, or ethnic affiliation were common in books associated with this program. Particularly. Children’s books produced for the festival sought to ground the uncontested power of the National Party as legitimate, fair and even ideal. They exploited feelings of patriotism to translate them into obedience to the political system as a whole, starting from the school library or the government clinic, and moving up to the top of the pyramid, the leaders and political figures. I seek to investigate a major series of children’s literature published in Egypt under this state-endorsed festival between 2002 and 2007. The series is titled The Peace Education Series and, with the support of the Egyptian Ministry of Information, it is directly aimed at raising youth’s awareness of pressing issues related to peace. At their relatively high and organized distribution rates, especially with the help of government-affiliated institutions and its infrastructure, the books of The Peace Education Series resemble textbooks, rather than voluntarily-purchased children’s books. I examine how children’s books in this series accomplish the socialization of children through state-sponsored literature aimed at indoctrinating the Egyptian youth to reinforce the government’s power. I explore the depth of influence Mubarak’s regime had on literary production. I attempt to unveil how domestic trouble, like the Muslim-Christian religious violence, and regional struggles like the Arab-Israeli conflict, were exploited by Mubarak's regime to produce ideological literature which became a form of government propaganda.