# Librarian claims there's no good children's books about Trump, but there are? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 17, 2022, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/librarian-claims-theres-no-good-childrens-books-about-trump-but-there-are/968073 "2022-07-17T03:22:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2022, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/librarian-claims-theres-no-good-childrens-books-about-trump-but-there-are/968073/21 "2022-07-18T00:31:13Z")
I feel like it would be easier to write a good children’s book about Mitt Romney or Jill Biden than about Donald Trump. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2022, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/librarian-claims-theres-no-good-childrens-books-about-trump-but-there-are/968073/22 "2022-07-18T00:48:18Z")
I usually won’t buy a book without a good review. Also, we’re looking at a story that comes under “current events” and hasn’t been written yet. Still, there’s something to be said for having a complete set of president biographies. I’d take that over a hagiography. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2022, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/librarian-claims-theres-no-good-childrens-books-about-trump-but-there-are/968073/23 "2022-07-18T01:59:51Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Not to mention, libraries do not often just buy books from Amazon, they are offered deals on the books by publishers. It is quite possible that none of those included the books you list Yep. I’m in an academic library, so a bit different, but what we buy has to be available though our vendor. This doesn’t happen same day the book is released on Amazon and some books are never in there. While we can occasionally order from other sources it is a Process because not only are the payments more difficult, but they don’t come in shelf ready - and we don’t have people doing that work on a regular basis anymore. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2022, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/librarian-claims-theres-no-good-childrens-books-about-trump-but-there-are/968073/24 "2022-07-18T13:54:42Z")
Yeah part of the point is that those complaining don’t want “good” books about Trump, they want _favorable_ books about Trump. Not even neutral or good-parts-only, they want to give tge children propaganda. They want books directly inculcating that he was The Best. And yes, it would not surprise me if among books portraying Trump positively, a large proportion were distributed through outright partisan channels that are not the ones public libraries use for their supply. So technically the library could in fact have no “good children’s books about Trump” available from their approved suppliers’ list. Which the librarian does not control. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2022, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/librarian-claims-theres-no-good-childrens-books-about-trump-but-there-are/968073/25 "2022-07-18T14:25:46Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > The problem is that any unbiased book will make Trump look bad, so any “good” book about Trump would be totally unacceptable by any librarian’s standards. I’m willing to bet that many of the Trump supporters who were angered by this situation were just _told_ that there weren’t any Trump-positive books, and didn’t bother to check before they started making threats. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2022, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/librarian-claims-theres-no-good-childrens-books-about-trump-but-there-are/968073/26 "2022-07-18T14:35:43Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I know what those people want to see and I would guess that that librarian knows also. [![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/charitycdn/data/products/70004/14218329761fbed66a07f28.06502195.jpg) ](https://s3.amazonaws.com/charitycdn/data/products/70004/14218329761fbed66a07f28.06502195.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2022, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/librarian-claims-theres-no-good-childrens-books-about-trump-but-there-are/968073/27 "2022-07-18T14:40:20Z")
If they’re having difficulty finding the children’s books that paint Donald Trump in a favorable light, they may want to look in the fiction section. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2022, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/librarian-claims-theres-no-good-childrens-books-about-trump-but-there-are/968073/28 "2022-07-18T21:49:48Z")
Count me in as out of touch, I didn’t even know there were children’s books about presidents. I know I wouldn’t have read them as a child. I think everything I read as a child about presidents, true of false, was in history books. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2022, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/librarian-claims-theres-no-good-childrens-books-about-trump-but-there-are/968073/29 "2022-07-18T22:21:11Z")
I’m surprised that there isn’t some decent publisher with an updated-as-needed series about all the Presidents. Sort of a Mini Page-level overview. In fact, I’m a bit surprised that the Mini Page doesn’t themselves have such a series. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2022, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/librarian-claims-theres-no-good-childrens-books-about-trump-but-there-are/968073/30 "2022-07-18T22:28:07Z")
There are some of those, and they include Trump. Absent a review of the specific volume on Trump I’d purchase one based on the series as a whole. None of them would be likely to please a Trump supporter, though. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2022, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/librarian-claims-theres-no-good-childrens-books-about-trump-but-there-are/968073/31 "2022-07-18T23:08:14Z")
This thread reminds me of the strip _Mallard Fillmore_. Notoriously unfunny but carried by some papers to “balance” things out. I’ve seen a lot of stuff over the years that ponders _Fillmore_ and why conservatives all too often just can’t do funny. Sliding over to children’s books: many are funny, or heart warming, etc. Sort of in the same ballpark. And I don’t think there’s many conservatives who can do that sort of thing in general. And even harder to do when comes to Trump. What’s going to be the topic? The time Donny slept with the porn stars? Said a bunch of racist stuff? Etc. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2022, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/librarian-claims-theres-no-good-childrens-books-about-trump-but-there-are/968073/32 "2022-07-19T02:53:54Z")
You definitely could do a PG version of his life. Rich dad, real estate development, Casinos, reality TV, White House. Children’s cooks aren’t super in depth. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2022, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/librarian-claims-theres-no-good-childrens-books-about-trump-but-there-are/968073/33 "2022-07-19T18:30:58Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > I’ve seen a lot of stuff over the years that ponders _Fillmore_ and why conservatives all too often just can’t do funny. It’s hard to laugh when your ass is clenched. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/librarian-claims-theres-no-good-childrens-books-about-trump-but-there-are/968073.md?page=1)