and we turn them into children s versions. we take the core ideas from these classic books. wrap them in a fun, illustrate them beautifully. and now kids are learning a lot of these ideas that were only accessible previously to adults, but now they can be made more accessible kids. where did you come up with the idea and the name? so partner and i, who s our illustrator, we re both dads. several years ago, when we had younger kids, we wanted to teach our kids these ideas. i went on amazon day, i was looking for books that would, you know allow me to talk to my kids about free market type ideas, personal freedom and and there was nothing there was a little bit about the constitution, but there wasn t really anything about some of these more fundamental ideas that the founding fathers really fighting for. so elijah and i got to talk and we re like, well let s actually create something. maybe there s market for it. we did. one book is kind of a labor love, a little test project.
by the associate authors at the j, which is a new partnership between the library and the jcc. as you may know, our library on lindbergh is now under construction and i think the wrecking ball comes for it next week. so during the time that our new building is being built, the jcc has offered us the use of this gorgeous facility here for our author event. so many of our events be here for the next year and a half. i you guys will join us a lots more. i also want to let you know that c-span is here tonight recording for book tv, which i think is so cool. so you guys can watch this again on book tv in a couple of weeks. i also want to recognize our bookseller left bank books saint louis is the oldest and premier independent bookstore. left bank has eliot s books for sale in the back of the room, and he will sign back there as well after the talk. so on the event our author this evening, eliot ackerman, served five tours of duty in iraq and afghanistan in both the infantry and a
of kids learn about the ideas of free society. our books take classic texts like road to serfdom or economics in one lesson, atlas shrugged, even many others. and we turn them into children s versions. we take the core ideas from these classic books. wrap them in a fun, illustrate them beautifully. and now kids are learning a lot of these ideas that were only accessible previously to adults, but now they can be made more accessible kids. where did you come up with the idea and the name? so partner and i, who s our illustrator, we re both dads. several years ago, when we had younger kids, we wanted to teach our kids these ideas. i went on amazon day, i was looking for books that would, you know allow me to talk to my kids about free market type ideas, personal freedom and and there was nothing there was a little bit about the constitution, but there wasn t really anything about some of these more fundamental ideas that the founding fathers really fighting for. so elijah and i
by the associate authors at the j, which is a new partnership between the library and the jcc. as you may know, our library on lindbergh is now under construction and i think the wrecking ball comes for it next week. so during the time that our new building is being built, the jcc has offered us the use of this gorgeous facility here for our author event. so many of our events be here for the next year and a half. i you guys will join us a lots more. i also want to let you know that c-span is here tonight recording for book tv, which i think is so cool. so you guys can watch this again on book tv in a couple of weeks. i also want to recognize our bookseller left bank books saint louis is the oldest and premier independent bookstore. left bank has eliot s books for sale in the back of the room, and he will sign back there as well after the talk. so on the event our author this evening, eliot ackerman, served five tours of duty in iraq and afghanistan in both the infantry and a
but now they can be made more accessible kids. where did you come up with the idea and the name? so partner and i, who s our illustrator, we re both dads. several years ago, when we had younger kids, we wanted to teach our kids these ideas. i went on amazon day, i was looking for books that would, you know allow me to talk to my kids about free market type ideas, personal freedom and and there was nothing there was a little bit about the constitution, but there wasn t really anything about some of these more fundamental ideas that the founding fathers really fighting for. so elijah and i got to talk and we re like, well let s actually create something. maybe there s market for it. we did. one book is kind of a labor love, a little test project. a lot of people bought it. and so we ve continued from there, we ve sold over 4 million books. now we re in 12 languages. we have a cartoon. it s just blowing up quite lot. so it s a clearly the market has said, yes, we need and want t