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January 28, 2009

Obama for toddlers

Barack Obama 101Yes we can, babies. A new Barack Obama board book is out to tell the page-tearing set all about our 44th president.

Kids can learn about Obama's parents, see a map of places where he grew up and went to school, and check out the vehicles that the president uses. Best of all, your little politician can put his picture in a pseudo-frame on the last page, under the words "future president." All for only $10.95.

Like Obama, this book seems just a bit, well, precocious. Kids typically outgrow board books by the time they're 3, don't they? Yet this one isn't exactly "One Fish, Two Fish." (To wit, this sentence: "Obama graduated from Harvard with a Juris Doctor degree in 1991.") And there are passages from the Constitution to explain the president's powers.

 

Posted by Kate Shatzkin at 12:45 PM | | Comments (0)
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About Kate Shatzkin
Kate Shatzkin is the parenting and families content editor at The Baltimore Sun and, before that, was its family beat reporter. But her most challenging and rewarding job is being mother to Leah, 8, and Sam, 6.

In her 14 years at The Baltimore Sun, Kate also has covered nonprofit organizations, prisons and courts, and has written several investigative series. She was previously a Knight journalism fellow at Yale Law School and a reporter at the Seattle Times and at the Patriot-Ledger of Quincy, Mass. She lives in Baltimore with her family.

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