This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, December 2nd, 2016.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Trying to turn the road to serfdom or The Creature from Jekyll Island

into popular children's books would be a daunting task.

But it's a task that Connor Boyac has done his best to undertake.

In his new book series, the Tuttle Twins find themselves, with some artistic license, facing

the same problems that confound governments and civil society.

We spoke this week about how he's trying to bring the freedom philosophy to young people.

One of the challenges is really distilling the core ideas down to, in our case, a 60-page children's book.

You want to hit three to five core ideas that not only children

can understand, but quite frankly, we're reaching an entirely new adult audience who is not

familiar with the original works and who probably would never pick up economics in

one lesson.

But through this very non-threatening medium, when it's a shared experience with their child,

now we're reaching an entirely new audience hitting those very

fundamental core ideas.

Okay, so the one that spoke to me most clearly was the law by Frederick Bostia.

That would seem to be the most simple of the tasks to

translate that because the law of course itself is very short. Yeah. And the

lessons there are clear as day.

Yeah, I mean, it's fun too when you can weave in, you know,

legalized plunder and so we have a pirate in the story.

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