- Stephen Colbert
“Anyone who knows me knows that I don’t like children or books or children’s books but I do respect the free market and children’s books do sell.” -Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert recently joked on The Colbert Report about his distaste for children’s books but that isn’t stopping him from publishing one in May. When Colbert sat down with legendary children’s author Maurice Sendak, he asked him to critique his book geared towards the younger market, I Am a Pole (and So Can You!). Maurice grudgingly commented, “The sad thing is, I like it.” According to GalleyCat, Grand Central Publishing snapped up the rights to the book. Colbert commented, “It’s been a lifelong dream of mine to write a children’s book. I hope the minutes you and your loved ones spend reading it are as fulfilling as the minutes I spent writing it.”
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