An adorable Kickstarter campaign to create a children's book about the election met its fundraising goal of $30,000 on Thursday.
Support from almost 400 backers will help to make the book Roger Nix, President at Six available for purchase by the U.S. presidential election in November 2012.
Author Nick Dazé says he would have never met his fundraising goal without Facebook.
"Being a guy that's very internet savvy, I was astounded that more than 80% of the backers came from Facebook," Dazé told Mashable. "It's not that I didn't expect Facebook to be huge, but it was even bigger than direct email. Twitter was only 2%."
Kickstarter's analytics just show the traffic sources for people who back the project.
The illustrated fable aims to get children thinking and talking about the election, which creator Dazé thinks should be easy, since almost all kids aspire to be president when they grow up. The story focuses on how a kindergartener is determined to defeat an evil candidate for president.
Dazé explains that he wants to instill kids with the belief that "changing the world isn't just for adults." He included the below excerpt from the book on his Kickstarter page:
"Kids need their KID-ness, and summer vacation,
And cool superheroes with awesome mutations!
They need paste and paper and cardboard juice boxes.
They need dogs and worm guts and striped baseball soxes.
They need, most of all, their imaginations.
Let grown-ups worry about jobs and bus stations
And traffic and stock markets, 401(k)s
If that’s how a grown-up spends his or her days.
Because, as you know, kids turn into teens,
And teens go to college and come out Marines
And doctors and shoe-shines. Adults, every one.
How can you de-kid your daughters and sons?"
Though the project has already hit its fundraising goal, you can still preorder a copy until Friday morning, when the campaign expires.
Will this book get kids excited about presidential politics? Would you give to this Kickstarter?
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