Help Publish Roger Nix, President at Six…Today!

I had heard about a cool website called Kickstarter.com but I had yet to check it out. Then a friend contacted me about helping a friend of his get his children’s book published and I had to check it out. Kickstarter is the world’s largest funding platform for creative projects. What an awesome idea! So anyway, I checked out the project my friend suggested and I am know a backer of the book, and you can be too. There is a deadline though, the project must be funded by 9:05am ET tomorrow, May 4, 2012. So far over 90% of the goal has been met…can you help push it over the top? Here is the info.

Roger Nix, President at Six is about kindergartener Roger Nix, an ordinary boy: Roger loves kindergarten, playing make-believe, and hanging out with his imaginary friends (a baby donkey named Jack and a baby elephant named Abe). But when he learns about the plans of Old Man Plee, a perennial presidential candidate, to shut down schools and send kids to work in factories as an austerity measure; Roger decides to run against Old Man Plee as a defender of “school and summer vacation, learning and imagination”. Of course Abe and Jack are there to help him every step of the way.

Nick Daze and his incredible Kickstarter campaign  have already raised nearly $27,299 and only has $2,701 more to go in order to put the book into production. The book has been fully written by Daze and the illustrations beautifully crafted by Bill Robinson www.FlimFlammery.com . Each $30 pledge towards the Roger Nix campaign comes with a first edition hardcover copy of the book, delivered in time for the new school year this fall. This is a timely story that is fascinating, engaging, and a thought-provoking read for both kids and parents written by a imaginative adult who was encouraged to explore his imagination as a child.

Here is an excerpt from the book:

Roger stood up quickly. He had something to say
With a wink from Jack and a trunks-up from Abe.
“I’ll run against him,” Roger said with a shout.
“I’ll run for president, have you no doubt!

To close school would be nothing short of a crime
You can’t fool all us kids, not all of the time.”

He stood on his desk and they all watched and wondered
As Roger kept talking, his voice boomed and thundered.
“We’ll beat him and keep all the schools as they are
Or make them way better. We’ll shoot for the stars!
We go to school so one day we’ll go far,
Not because it is easy–because it is hard!

We are KIDS! The whole point is to learn and have fun
And to use our wee noggins…

THIS RACE HAS BEGUN!”

So Abe, Jack, and Roger got to work right away.
“That kid’s on to something,” his parents would say.
He made lots of speeches; he shook lots of hands
He toured a big factory that made rubber bands.

Then one night on the tube, to Old Plee’s disdain,
The news ran a story on Roger’s campaign.
“Roger Nix, daydreamer and ultimate kid,
Is gaining on Plee in his presidential bid.”

But everyone knew that sooner or later
Roger would have to be quite the debater.
Because one night soon, under some bright marquee
A debate would take place between Roger and Plee.

Please find more information and link to donate below if interested http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/787960356/roger-nix-president-at-six

Thanks for reading and if possible, doing your part to help get a book published.

**UPDATE** We did it!! Eleven hours before the deadline all of the money was raised to get this book published. Thank you for your help.