Politicians and their ghostwriters regularly churn out books in many different well-worn genres, including memoirs, policy manifestos, and novels. Still, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’s (D-NY) latest book, published in November by Grand Central Publishing after his party’s stinging losses in House, Senate, and White House elections, is a departure from what his predecessors would have written to help boost future campaigns.

That’s because The ABCs of Democracy is a children’s picture book, specifically the subset of children’s picture books that help them learn the alphabet. These books, on the whole, sell well. Yet they usually aren’t political since preliterate children have not yet been granted the franchise.