President Barack Obama's half-sister to write children's book

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By The Associated Press

NEW YORK - President Barack Obama's half-sister has a book deal, for a children's picture story.


Maya Soetoro-Ng's "Ladder to the Moon," based in part on Obama's mother and other family members, will be published by Candlewick Press at a date not yet determined. According to Candlewick, Soetoro-Ng will pay "homage to her mother's tradition of storytelling."


The late Ann Dunham is mother both to Obama and Soetoro-Ng, who was born in 1970, nine years after the future president. (Obama and Soetoro-Ng have different fathers). Soetoro-Ng, who teaches at an all-girls school in Honolulu, campaigned for her half brother and spoke at last year's Democratic National Convention.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090402/entertainment/books_obama_sibling

( I cannot wait to buy a copy for my grandchildren)

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1. Meanwhile, Sarah Palin's Sister in Law...

Oh, right, the Family Values Party.

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2. Excuse me but what the heck is "The Family Values Part"?

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3. This is so good to know..thank

you, TopCat~ We just got a bunch of neat children's books in today that I processed at my work.

I'll put it on the list so we can order it for the co-op when it comes out. They have an expression in Hawai'i i.e. "talk story". They call it that when they "chat". I think it dates back to the old days when they would pass their history down to the next generation.