Children’s Book Publishers Illustrate...

Make room Cat in the Hat, Berenstain Bears and Curious George—you’re being replaced with John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Believe it or not, it’s true. Three new children’s books on sale two months before the historic November election focus on the lives of two presidential hopefuls and one almost-hopeful. The goal is to target the children of voters by telling the life stories of the three candidates in the 2008 presidential election.

Are these books a good way to teach children at a young age the importance of voting? Or is this another case of over-exposure this election season? The text is clearly written for the parents—that is evident in the bland writing in McCain’s book and the prose that will go over any child’s head in Obama’s. Some critics see this as a tool to raise little Republicans or Democrats. After all, it’s highly unlikely that an Obama supporter will purchase both candidate's books for their child, and vice versa.

Click here to read more about the books and find out who the leader is according to Amazon's polls.

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Charlene C. Sep 10, 2008, 12:10pm EDT

I think children should be exposed to political issues on their own level. I don't think we should dumb down our kids and assume they are too little to understand. They can understand a lot if we teach them the meanings of words. I think small children should have a clue to what is going on in the world.

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