“Daddy, what’s Occupy Wall Street?”
Across countless American living rooms, as Mom and Dad take in the 6 o’clock news with their above-average children playing on the carpet, they wrestle with how to frame the nascent “Occupy” movement to their children. As anchors cut to footage of tear gas scattering masked protesters, parents face the political equivalent of the dreaded birds and the bees talk — about capitalism. And now they have a coloring book to help them.
A new “grown-up coloring book novel” has hit Amazon and Barnes & Noble, chock full of Occupy-related drawings, songs and texts.
The folio, published by Really Big Coloring Books of St Louis, features a colorful cover with images of Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs and an unidentifiable MC in sunglasses.
In one drawing, four protestors in “V for Vendetta” masks made famous by the hacktivist group Anonymous carry a golden bull.
The book “includes modern and historical figures with quotations from Plato to O’Reilly, Hannity to Maddow, Obama to Boehner,” reads a press release. “There are pages dating back to the Robin Hood era, drawings of various parks, political views from every angle and a few surprises with imaginative satirical pages.”
The release also says “Occupy: A Grown Up Coloring Book Novel” includes songs, poems and games — and “a true to life ‘Guilt Relief Donation Form’ for the overburdened 1%!”
One page contains rewritten lyrics to several popular children’s tunes, including “The Occupation Song,” sung to the tune of “My Country ‘Tis of Thee.”
The clumsy lyrics read, “The business once on main/ now shuttered – who’s to blame?/ from every funding-side/ let us hear ‘ka-ching.'”