World needs leaders who consume books .. not cable TV news
WHEN Chelsea Clinton was planning a children’s book about inspirational women from around the world, there was one obvious candidate.
Hillary and Bill Clinton’s daughter is a huge Harry Potter fan and had no qualms about putting JK Rowling up there with Marie Curie and Malala Yousufzai.
It’s not just because the boy wizard got her through a miserable week. Rowling made the cut for Chelsea’s book, called She Persisted Around The World, because the author had to overcome so many obstacles to get her story published.
Chelsea recalled: “I love Harry Potter. My husband gave them to me back when he was my boyfriend. I was sick. I had pneumonia, I was in bed for a week, I was quite restless. He bought me the series and told me that the last time he’d been really sick he’d read all seven books.
“He said, ‘You will read one a day and it will make the week fly by’, and he was totally correct.”
Once she was feeling more human, Chelsea discovered that not only could JK Rowling write a tale that made her achy bones feel better but that she was a single parent who had to use her initials instead of her first name in case boys turned their nose up at a book written by a woman.
She said: “I didn’t know anything about her. I read everything I could about her afterwards. When it came to writing the book, I tried to think about things kids