Stephen Colbert to release children’s book about a flag pole
ASSOCIATED PRESS February 21, 2012 3:06PM
Stephen Colbert
Updated: March 23, 2012 8:17AM
NEW YORK — With the blessing of Maurice Sendak, Stephen Colbert is releasing a children’s book.
Grand Central Publishing said Tuesday that it will publish I Am a Pole (And So Can You!) on May 8. In a two-part “Colbert Report” segment that aired last month, Colbert previewed the book with Where the Wild Things Are author Sendak.
Claiming he was looking to “cash in” on celebrity children’s books, Colbert penned an illustrated story about a flag pole’s quest for identity.
Sendak called the book “terribly ordinary” but acknowledged, “The sad thing is I like it.”
In a statement, Colbert said: “I hope the minutes you and your loved ones spend reading it are as fulfilling as the minutes I spent writing it.”
Grand Central previously published Colbert’s 2007 bestseller I Am America (And So Can You!). It will also publish his next book, America Again: Re-Becoming the Greatness We Never Weren’t in October.
After a two-episode hiatus last week, Colbert returned to his “Report” on Monday and alluded to his ailing mother, saying, “Evidently, having 11 children makes you tough as nails.”
AP
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