Post date: Nov 16, 2010 9:40:23 PM
President Barack Obama is hoping to become a best-selling author once again with a new 31-page children's book. Jon Decker reports.
USA-OBAMA BOOK - President Barack Obama is hoping to become a best-selling author once again.
A children's book authored by the President hit U.S. bookstore shelves on Tuesday.
The 31-page "Of Thee I Sing" -- written as a letter from the President to his daughters Malia and Sasha -- profiles 13 prominent Americans- including President George Washington, artist Georgia O'Keeffe and baseball icon Jackie Robinson.
The book - written before Obama became president - is part of a three-volume deal Obama agreed to in 2004, just after he was elected to the U.S. Senate.
Royalties from book sales will go to a scholarship fund for children of U.S. soldiers killed or disabled.
Jon Decker, Reuters.