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Who Is Barack Obama?
(Who Was? Young Readers Edition)
Description
The latest addition to the Who HQ program: a biography of Barack Obama, created specifically for the preschool audience!
The #1 New York Times Bestselling Who Was? series expands into the board book space, bringing age-appropriate biographies of influential figures to readers ages
The chronology and themes of President Barack Obama's inspirational life are presented in a masterfully succinct ord, with just a few sentences per page. The fresh, stylized illustrations are sure to captivate young readers and adults alike. With a read-aloud biographical summary in the back, this age-appropriate introduction honors and shares the life and work of one of the most influential leaders of our time.
Publication date
March 21,
Classification
Non-fiction
Publisher
Rise X Penguin Workshop
Series
Who Was? Young Readers Edition
BISAC categories
JNF - Juvenile Nonfiction | People
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President Barack Obama
Personal
Barack Hussein Obama II was born August 4, , in Honolulu, Hawaii, to parents Barack H. Obama, Sr., and Stanley Ann Dunham. His parents divorced when he was 2 years old and he was raised by his mother, Ann, and maternal grandparents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham. His motherlater married Lolo Soetoro, and his sister Maya was born in (He also has several siblings on his father’s side.)
Obama moved with his family to Indonesia in , where he attended local Indonesian schools and received additional lessons via U.S. correspondence courses under his mother’s direction.
He returned to Hawaii to live with his grandparents in and attended Punahou School, from which he graduated in Obama first attended Occidental College in Los Angeles, before transferring to Columbia University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in
After graduation, Obama briefly worked as an analyst at Business International Corporation in New York City,
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Barack Obama: Life Before the Presidency
Barack Hussein Obama II was born on August 4, , in Hawaii. His parents, who met as students at the University of Hawaii, were Ann Dunham, a white American from Kansas, and Barack Obama Sr., a black Kenyan studying in the United States. Obama's father left the family when Obama was two and, after further studies at Harvard University, returned to Kenya, where he died in an automobile accident nineteen years later. After his parents divorced, Obama's mother married another foreign student at the University of Hawaii, Lolo Soetoro of Indonesia. From age six through ten, Obama lived with his mother and stepfather in Indonesia, where he attended Catholic and Muslim schools. “I was raised as an Indonesian child and a Hawaiian child and as a black child and as a white child,” Obama later recalled. “And so what I benefited from is a multiplicity of cultures that all fed me.”
Concerned for his education, Obama’s mother sent him back to Hawaii to