This picture book biography uses the format of a young mother recounting Barack Obama's inspirational life story in answer to her son's questions about the person he keeps seeing on TV. She explains his dual heritage and the forces that shaped his early life in Hawaii and Indonesia. She describes the thirst for education that was to lead him to Columbia and Harvard universities and the role of hope and a desire for social change in a political career culminating in his presidential ambitions. Double-page colour illustrations, an author's note and a chronology of important dates complete this motivational story.