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Flag pole the star of Colbert's kids book

By: Staff Writer

Posted: 02/22/2012 1:00 AM | Comments: 0 (including replies)

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 due to his ailing mother, Colbert returned to The Report on Monday.

-- The Associated Press

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition February 22, 2012 C2

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