NEW YORK (WCBS 880) — A Queens first grader is making a name for herself in the publishing world and celebrating the heroes of the pandemic at the same time.
Five-year-old Egypt Bush is a precocious little girl who loves to read books at the library, but when the pandemic shut down the library in her Cambria Heights neighborhood in Queens, there wasn’t much for her to do.
“My dad had to read two books over and over again,” she tells WCBS 880.
That got dull quickly, so her dad gave her a better idea.
Egypt says: “Then he told me, ‘Why don’t you make your own book?’”
So she did – she wrote several in fact and they are all about superheroes fighting off the supergerm.
Despite the fact that she is only in the first grade, she’s already a published author – and dad Rahiem Bush says he couldn’t be more proud.
“We’ve been selling these books, of course, and she’s decided that because she now has all of these products, she wants to give out 2,000 books to kids who are less fortunate,” Egypt’s dad explains.
He says that the 5-year-old has always been a kind-hearted girl who loves to entertain others and put a smile on people’s faces.
“If I have a bunch of people over, she wants to perform. She’ll literally come out in a wig, a dress, and decide that the TV needs to go off, everybody needs to watch her,” Raheim said.
As for what is in store for 5-year-old Egypt now? She says when she grows up, she wants to design video games, among other things.
“I’m gonna do science too, because I want to make a cure for coronavirus,” Egypt said.
To purchase one of her books, visit her website at BeingEgypt.com.