Texas senator Ted Cruz is the star of a bestselling coloring book
Young artists may currently be coloring the face of Texas senator Ted Cruz.
The publisher Really Big Coloring Books Inc. released a coloring book titled 鈥淯.S. Sen. Ted Cruz to the Future鈥� earlier this month and it鈥檚 become a bestseller. Really Big Coloring Books, which is based in St. Louis, published 10,000 copies initially and those sold out within 24 hours, according to the . The second printing of the coloring book vanished almost as quickly and the book 鈥� which has no official ties to Cruz 鈥� is now on its third printing.
鈥淎t this point, I would almost call it a phenomenon," company founder Wayne Bell told the AP. "It's beyond us. We're just trying to catch up with the printing.鈥�
The book depicts Cruz, who took office almost a year ago, spending time with his family, hunting, and delivering his 21-hour speech to the Senate against the new health care law.
The front of 鈥淐ruz鈥� features the senator standing next to a tea plant. The leaves of the plant are labeled 鈥淟ower taxes,鈥� 鈥淒iversity,鈥� 鈥淥pportunities,鈥� 鈥淕un rights,鈥� among other words. The stalks of the plant read 鈥淯.S. Constitution鈥� and 鈥淭en Commandments.鈥�
The inside includes activities such as trivia based on Cruz鈥檚 life and sections on the Ten Commandments.
