Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope
Nikki Grimes, Author, Bryan Collier, Illustrator , illus. by Bryan Collier. Simon & Schuster $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4169-7144-3
“One day Hope stopped by for a visit,” begins this biography, narrowly framed as an exchange between an African-American mother and her son. They sit together on a “frayed” sofa in a “tenement” as she tells him who “Braco-what?” is and why he is so special; at the end she blinks back tears when he tells her that he, too, wants to be president when he grows up. (Hope later talks to Barack Obama, as does God.) Grimes (
Reviewed on: 08/11/2008
Release date: 08/01/2008
Genre: Children's
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