While surfing the net today, I discovered one more Barack Obama children’s book to add to my list, Barack, written by Jonah Winter and illustrated by AG Ford (read his blog). I haven’t read the book, yet (maybe they’ll send me a review copy), but the cover illustration is off the chain. Do they still say that?
Anyway, it’s published by HarperCollins, September 2008.
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Flipping the Script by Paula Chase Hyman
Saving Maddie by Varian Johnson
It Jes' Happened by Don
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Ellen's Broom, Written by Kelly Starling Lyons
Eighth-Grade Superzero by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
Around Our Way by Tameka Fryer Brown
The Pet Wash, Written by Gwendolyn Hooks
How Lamar's Bad Prank Won a Bubba Sized Trophy, Written by Crystal Allen
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I still say “off the chain”. :-)