In this case “Author News” happens to include the President! Obama’s book for kids hit the shelves this week:
Obama children’s book `Of Thee I Sing’ out Nov. 16 (By HILLEL ITALIE)
NEW YORK – Coming two weeks after Election Day, a book from President Barack Obama for some of the nation’s nonvoters: inspirational stories for children about American pioneers.
“Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters” is a tribute to 13 groundbreaking Americans, from the first president, George Washington, to baseball great Jackie Robinson to artist Georgia O’Keeffe. It will be released Nov. 16 by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, which will officially announce the new work Tuesday. Knopf declined to identify the other 10 subjects.
Obama is not the first president to write for young people. Jimmy Carter’s “The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer” was published in 1995, more than a decade after he left office. More in line with Obama’s effort, Theodore Roosevelt collaborated with Henry Cabot Lodge on “Hero Tales from American History,” released in 1895, before Roosevelt was president…
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Author of “Babe: The Gallant Pig,” Dies
Even in 2011 the cycle of life continues. Yesterday a wedding post, and today an obituary post -
Dick King-Smith, author of “Babe: The Gallant Pig,” dies
By Emma Brown
Dick King-Smith, a British farmer-turned-writer whose beloved children’s book “The Sheep-Pig” — better known in the U.S. as “Babe: The Gallant Pig” — was later turned into a popular movie, has died.
Mr. King-Smith died yesterday at his home in southwest England. He was 88.
Mr. King-Smith had written more than 100 books but was probably best known for inventing Babe, an intelligent pig who learns how to herd sheep.
“Babe,” the movie based on Mr. King-Smith’s book, was a surprise hit when it was released in 1995. Writing in The Washington Post, film critic Desson Howe called it a “barnyard charmer, with a great supporting flock of animatronic animals.”…
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