Yes We Can

This Obama-friendly biography was first published in June and has been updated with 32 additional pages on his historic campaign and election...it's a useful, clearly written summary of an amazing story, both personally and politically. Garen Thomas, a children's book editor and author has done an admirable job... --USA Today

A smoothly written account of the candidate's life. --People Magazine

Thomas's clear prose will help students learn more about the first African American to gain a major party nomination for the presidency. --School Library Journal

[An] adulatory profile of the presidential candidate's meteoric rise. --Booklist

GAREN THOMAS worked as an editor in children's book publishing for many years and is the author of Santa's Kwanzaa. She edited many notable children's books, including the Caldecott Honor Book Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Kadir Nelson; Kadir Nelson's We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball; and the Coretta Scott King Award-winning novel Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue, by Julius Lester. She continues to act as a consultant and children's books editor on a freelance basis while working on her own writing and film projects. She holds an A.B. from Harvard University and is getting her M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.