The Kid Who Ran for President
The return of Dan Gutman's sharp, funny farce about the youngest candidate to ever run for President of the United States -- updated just in time for the 2012 election!"Hi! My name is Judson Moon. I'm twelve years old and I'm running for President of the YOU-nited States."That's how I introduced...
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The return of Dan Gutman's sharp, funny farce about the youngest candidate to ever run for President of the United States -- updated just in time for the 2012 election!"Hi! My name is Judson Moon. I'm twelve years old and I'm running for President of the YOU-nited States."That's how I introduced myself to about a zillion people. I must have kissed a zillion babies, said a zillion hellos, shaken a zillion hands . . . Will I get a zillion votes? The answer might surprise you.Can you picture a kid as President? Imagine what we can accomplish -- together -- in a country where parents listen. Where teachers give no homework. Where every lawmaker obeys a single kid -- me! How am I going to pull this off? Who knows! Read the book to find out.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780545442138 (0545442133)
ASIN: 545442133
Publish date: June 1st 2012
Publisher: Scholastic Books
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
Series: The Kid Who Ran for President (#1)
This book is used in the analogy for Trump. Worth a look. John Oliver even read part of this live. Sound like fun.
Judson Moon is charismatic, and funny at times but if you are looking for a book that teaches your kid somethings except politicians full of lies. I was hoping for much more then a moral story from this book other then what I received from the book. I think there could have been so much more added...
I thought I remembered this book: average kid has nerdy friend who puts him up for election, gets the class plastic girl to be his "first girlfriend", etc. I don't remember him winning though. But according to the existence of a sequel he did win. Oh well. This is a book whose quality equals the Hel...