January 27, 2011
This morning I decided to run a spur of the moment "Snow Day" contest, and asked who could be the first person to tell me why my publisher decided to change the original cover of my book DOGS (2004) to a different photo in 2009.
Paige, from the great Buckeye State of Ohio, came up with the right answer. Paige wrote: "In 2009, President Obama and his family adopted a new dog which is a Portuguese Water Dog named Bo!"
That’s exactly right. The 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, was inaugurated in January, 2009. Since he had promised his daughters Sasha and Malia that they could have a puppy when they moved into the White House, the search was on! The Obamas wanted to choose a breed that would be least likely to trigger Malia’s allergies, and they eventually settled on a fairly rare breed, the Portuguese Water dog.
My publishers, HarperCollins, decided to change the cover in honor of the first African-American president of the United States and his family.
Paige was the first person to come up with the right answer, and she wins a personally autographed copy of my book!
Click here to see a great photograph of President Obama and Bo playing together in the West Wing of the White House.
Posted by: Seymour Simon
