Bastiat's "The Law" — for kids

Education: Communicating Liberty Ideas

Connor Boyack April 30, 2014 at 7:02 pm

I’ve written a new children’s book that uses a fun story and engaging illustrations to convey the ideas in Bastiat’s The Law to kids age 6-10. It’s called The Tuttle Twins Learn About The Law.

Here’s the website.

If this book sells well, we’ll be turning it into an entire series. Each book will focus on a different aspect of liberty: the non-aggression principle, division of labor, intended/unintended consequences, etc. etc.

We’ve got plenty of available material to persuade adults to support liberty, but there’s a big void in the marketplace for educational material for kids. We’re going to be filling that void.

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B.K. Marcus May 9, 2014 at 3:20 pm

Featured today at the Freeman:

http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/bastiat-for-younguns

(I’ve added this FEE URL to the Related Content on the book page.)

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G. W. Patterson, Jr. May 9, 2014 at 3:50 pm

I heard you on Tom Woods’ podcast and bought the book for my children. Can’t wait to get it. Any chance you’ll be offering future books in an e-format?

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Connor Boyack May 9, 2014 at 3:57 pm

Yessir — e-books are in the works and should be ready within a week or two. Thanks for your interest!

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  G. W. Patterson, Jr. May 9, 2014 at 9:37 pm
  
  Great!
  
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Richard Masta May 9, 2014 at 6:35 pm

I also heard the TW show episode and I want to pick up a copy, even though I don’t have a family yet. I’m curious, though, as someone who thinks about this stuff: what caused you to choose the name Tuttle? I like the ring to it — it’s a name that is tied to the colonial history in my part of the north east. Could you humor us with some outtake names? haha. Rich

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  Connor Boyack May 11, 2014 at 11:59 pm
  
  I liked the alliteration so I wanted a last name that began with ‘T’ — problem was that there were only a few that sounded good (that a young child could easily pronounce, etc.). And worse, many of the workable options had real life twins with that name, with either a website with their name, or plenty of links, so SEO would have been more difficult. Tuttle met all the criteria, and didn’t have many pre-existing search results, so we ran with it.
  
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Fred_Bastiat85 May 10, 2014 at 1:51 am

I heard you on the Tom Woods show as well. Great discussion and very inspiring. As many here believe, this is an educational and moral dilemma that we face, not a political one. Your book/ work will help to inoculate the next generation from the lies and horror of the state and the politics du jour. Thank you and best of luck!

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Roger Browne May 12, 2014 at 9:09 am

Connor, the illustrations are great! How did you find a good illustrator?

(PS: I look forward to the children’s edition of Atlas Shrugged 🙂

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  Connor Boyack May 12, 2014 at 11:01 am
  
  Elijah and I have been friends for a few years and were looking for an opportunity to collaborate on a project. This one became the perfect fit!
  
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B.K. Marcus May 14, 2014 at 2:33 pm

Bookworm hangout tonight (Wednesday, 5/14) at 8 PM ET?

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Tiffany Madison May 15, 2014 at 2:56 pm

Connor, this is super cool. I think Matt Gilliland with our Liberty.me U may be reaching out to you to conduct an Author’s Forum. Definitely get in touch if he’s not already. This is such a neat idea.

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Properal May 15, 2014 at 4:16 pm

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wrong discussion.

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