Obama saga inspires kids -- to read

[Kadie]

Obama saga inspires kids -- to read
by Virginie Montet Virginie Montet – 53 mins ago

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Move over, Winnie the Pooh. And watch out, Harry Potter. Children's books have a new hero: Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the United States.

The life of the new president has inspired kiddie titles from "Mama Voted for Obama," to "Barack Obama: Change Has Come" or "Hopes and Dreams: The Story of Barack Obama."

The new US president is shaking things up in the publishing world, with at least 30 books about him on the market in the youth-oriented titles alone -- a record for a president in his first year of office.

Children's books about presidents and other historical figures are nothing new, to be sure. There are hundreds in print about George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King.

But industry insiders say it looks like Obama has quite a future ahead of him in youth-oriented books: most of the books currently on the market were written before he won the White House.

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"There is a huge interest in these books. They get checked out very frequently," said Ebony Curry in the children's division at the Martin Luther King library.

Audrey Fields, the acting chief in the same library's kids' section, said: "We can see 15 to a 50 kids on a given day" looking for information on the president for school assignments and reports.

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Books and videos about US President Barack Obama are on display at a Borders bookstore in Washington, DC. Books and other media dedicated to the life story of the first African-American president are by far the most popular about a political figure. More and more students are taking the materials to school and choosing to create projects around the new president and his young family.
(AFP/File/Yuri Gripas)

[graywarrior]

1. Very cool

I should check the kids library section myself.