BuzzFeed's David Mack Tells Us How 'The President and the Big Boy Truck' Went From Post to Children's Book

Sometimes at BuzzFeed, it only takes a day or so for a post to turn into a real-life adult children's book

According to Slate, writing books for kids is harder than it looks, a lesson learned when the publication held a children’s book writing contest among a number of its staffers, all attempting to write about a hedgehog.

Perhaps it was a matter of not having the type of subject matter so perfectly suitable for a picture book, the kind of subject matter that really shined in BuzzFeed news reporter David Mack’s post-turned-children’s book documenting President Trump’s photo op inside of a truck parked on the White House lawn last Thursday.

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